Show your favourite stamps !

A series,made up of six sets,issued in advance of the 1964
Olympics in Tokyo came by.I liked it so much,that I started
collecting Japan.That was fifty years ago.I terminated my
Japan-collection in 1988,when they started to issue more
and more stamps,too many more,to my taste.

set I,issued Oct.11th,1961

set II,June 23rd,1962

set III,Oct.10th,1962

set IV,june 23rd,1963

set V,Nov.11th,1963
set VI,June 23rd,1964
It is perhaps the simplicity of the colours and the big white
parts of the stamps,that give them an appearance of freshness.
Still today my favourite sport-thematic stamps.

 

The following stamps are the first set of a long-running series.
My favourite series of all orchid-thematic stamps.
The whole series contains about 300 stamps.In addition many
of these were overprinted and revalued.






issued July 9th,1985
I have several more of the serie,but am far from being complete.
Here for comparison,to give an idea of the actual size,one more
orchid- and a most common US air-mail-stamp:

 

A kind of thematic collection is my accummulation of stamps and
sets showing sceneries and people from different countries.
The majority are from British and French colonies.
I prefere engraved stamps,but also have others,if there are no
engraved ones.
I will show some in rather short posts.Otherwise the pages take
an awful long time to build up,at least,if you have such a slow
connection,like here in Paraguay.

 

Western Samoa:

issued Aug.7th,1935 (part II to follow)

 

Western Samoa 1935,part II

 

North Borneo

issued Jan.1st,1939 (part I)

 

(part II)

 

(part III)

There are three more Dollar-values,I don´t have.
They show coat of arms only and are pricey.

 

Just my personal opinion:
I would not take any stamps from sources other than my collection.
But if so,for any reason,I would clearly mark,that it is not mine and
would name the source.
The best solution,I think,is to buy a scanner.I did so a few months
ago,because my old scanner was not compatible to my present PC.
I bought a HP 2115 and paid Gs.420.000.- (equivalent to about
US $ 80.-.Paraguay,where I live,is a high-price-country.So you
might get some similar scanner somewhat cheaper in your place.

 

James showed yesterday,in the agricultural thread,stamps
from Aden/Hadhramaut.
Here the full set from Sept. 1st,1955:

(part I)

 

(part II)

 

(part III)

With the portait of a new ruler the same stamps were issued
again in 1963.

 

Another set I like very much:

issued Sept.1st,1951 (part I)

 

(part II)

 

(part III)

 

(part IV)

 

issued Jan.16th,1930 (part I)