Show your favourite stamps !

Here the missing scans:

 

Here one of my favourites. Issued on 1925, July 23. Sc B24-B28.
Tercentenary of Liepaja (Libau). My city.
View attachment 2823

 

Another of a my favourites:
Nepal,Childrens Day,issued March 1st,1960.
The stamps was locally printed in sheets of 4.
10.000 sheets were printed,a small number of
those remained imperforated.
I have a imperforated sheet only.

The four stamps have a different cliche each,
so that one can determine the sheet-position
of a single stamp.Here a FDC:

A scan of that stamp:

Yes,it is the upper left stamp.

 

Here one more of my favourites.And yes,
again it is Austria.The quality of austrian
stamps is second to no other country
worldwide,if not the best at all.
Issued on June 15th.1964 the set
commemorates the UPU-Congress in Vienna.

 

I wholeheartedly agree,Don.Sweden is also
one of my favourite countries.Unfortunately
my Sweden-collection is a rather small one.
Czechoslovakia is also high on my wantlist.
Here a souvenir sheet from Sweden,
commemorating the 70th birthday of
Czeslaw Slania.He engraved so many of
the finest swedish stamps.
Issued Oct.5th,1991

 

It is wonderful to see such craftmanship.

Regards, James

 

Hello Werner, this Thai specimen sheet may interest you, I have never seen another example of this design and have no idea of its value but it is one of my favourites. I may take it to the Bangkok, Saphan Kwai Philatelic Museum to get it appraised.



Regards, James.

 

I never have seen this as well.It is really stunning !
In my opinion it is a specimen of the never
issued 1 Fuang stamp of the 1883 series.
The stamp is valued $ 1000.-+,but I have
no idea at all about the worth of such specimen.
I also do not know in what kind of sheets the
1 Fuang was printed and if your sheet is the
same or a special edition.
But whatever it is: congratulations !

 

Another of my favourite sets from Austria:
Air-Mail Birds:
60 g,2 S. issued on Oct.21st,1950
20 S. Jan 7th,1952 (yellow.-greyish Paper),
reissued 1959 on white paper
1,3,5,10 S. Sept.29th,1953

 

No,I did not care about centering at all.
Then I did not even know centering as a
quality-criteria.
The 20 S. white paper I bought as a teenager
on a post office in Carinthia.The others from
different dealers in Austria.In Germany,Austria
included,fine to x-fine centering is the normal.
Some early pre 1900 and some issues of the
war-times excluded.
Quality standards or maybe quality-control-
standards were different from those in the US.
What you grade as average and good,would likely
have ended in Germany as printers waste in
peacetimes.

 

Beautiful set. I will look out for these.

 

UPU 1949:
I like the design for this "omnibus series",but
I would not like a collection of about 70 sets,
with no other difference than the colours and
the country names.

On the same subject,this time Laos´ admission
to the UPU,here one of my many favourite sets
from Laos:

I deliberately show a set with some tropical gum,
because it makes the colours look deeper.
To give an idea of the size of the stamps here a
scan what shows one from each set side by side.

 

Hello Werner, I agree with your statements, I also believe that most of Western European issues are to the same high standards, centering was not an issue, in fact if you did find a miss-perf it was quite a rarity.

James.

 

Another of my favourites,Bhutan again:

Prayer Banners,issued Sept.30th,1969
Printed on synthetic silk,the colours are much
more shining,than the scan does show.Frames
are golden.
There is a small problem with this set: it is
self-adhesive.The "glue" leaks a little bit on
the edges,so that the stamps are a little bit
sticky.
There comes a souvenir sheet,perforated and
imperforated,with the set,which unfortunately
I do not have (anymore).

 

Austria,out of the 1908 diamond-jubilee set,
what served as defintives till 1916:
the 10 Kronen-value is one of my favourites.
A masterpiece of Art Nouveau by Koloman Moser.

 

I cannot say exactly why,but this set from
Haiti is one of my favourites:
issued Oct.3rd,1939