Let's See Some Sailing Ships/Boats

Collector series from France,depicting various vessels of today and the past.

 

A personalized stamp from France from a series of stamps depicting sailing ships.

 

The Candian Post Office has done a creditable job in issuing stamps with ships and boats, cars, trains, and aircraft as well. Like the U.S. and other countries, though, it has gone a little overboard with new issues in recent years. I have cut my Canada collection off in the 1970s.

Don

 

There was a period in the 1990s when I needed something new to collect, so I went into my duplicate U.S. stamps and started a ships and boats topical collection. Here is page one. With the exception of this first page, a collection like this can be put together fairly inexpensively. A few of the stamps I bought from APS sales circuits, some I found at stamp shows, but most came from used duplicates I have accumulated over the years. Serous topical collectors, though, don't like used stamps for the most part, but at the risk of being blasphemous, it doesn't bother me to collect used stamps. The pages were drawn with my old page maker software AlbumPro. One of the nice things about make one's own pages, is that I can add or exclude any stamp I wish. It looks like I stopped this collection with 1970. I'll put up the other pages in sequence later.

Don

 

Page two of my U.S. ships and boats collection:

Don

 

Thanks, Werner. Somehow I overlooked the two cent stamp. I like the landing boat on it. Someday I will have to redraw that page and add the two cent'er.

Don

 

Page three:

 

Page four:

 

Page five:

 

The last page of this mini-topical that I put together. I don't remember why I didn't continue it, probably lost interest and moved on to other collections.

Don

 

Yes, missed a couple more. I included only the 1c Walloon. Purists would have used the whole set. Just goes to show, my success as a topicalist is limited.

Don

 

A miniature sheet from France.The Armada of the century...Armada du siecle..was a gathering of tall ships from around the world and was held in Rouen from July 9 to July 19,1999