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Maritime Topics on Stamps February 2009
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Malta, a set with four stamps, cruise liner.
From left top are depicted "MSC Musica",
"Voyager of the Seas",
"Westerdam" and "QE 2".
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France, a single stamp , Vendee Globe Race, a single-handed cicrcumnavigation of the world.
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India, a single navy stamp, "reaching out to our maritime neighbours".
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Turkey, a set with three stamps, "165th anniversary of Turkish Maritime Organization".
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Turkey, a set with two stamps, day of the armed forces.
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Monaco, a se-tenant of two stamps, polar explorer Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson.
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Kuwait, a set with eight stamps "Old Kuwait", among them this maritime motive.
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Serbia, a single stamp, 60th anniversary of the Danube Convention.
We see an inland vessel on the river.
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New Zealand, a set with five stamps, lighthouses.
From left top are depicted the towers of Pencarrow, Cape Brett, Cape Egmont,
Dog Island and Cape Reinga.
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Comoros, a se-tenant with six stamps about sailing ships.
From left top are depicted
"Lettie G 1893", "Maple Leaf 1904",
"Etoile 1930", "Brigantine St.Lawrence 1952",
"Cuauhtemoc 1982" and "Royal Clipper 2001".
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Comoros, a souvenir sheet with one stamp, sailing ships.
We see right top the "Constellation 1799" and below on the stamp the "Belle Poule 1834".
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Now there are stamps of private mail companies and the "new world" personalized stamps.
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Netherlands, two personalized stamps, local crafts in a southern port and a Farewell to the
"QE 2" !
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Austria, two personalized stamps, the Japanese "Asuka II" and the flag-ship of admiral Togo, "Mikasa"
(battle at Tsushima 1905).
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Netherlands, two personalized stamps, remember the "Titanic".
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Germany, a stamp of the private mail service Nordkurier Neubrandenburg.
For the Christmas market at Greifswald we see a symbolic sailing ship with Santa Claus aboard.
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Germany, two personalized stamps.
Left a stamp for the 50th anniversary of the German ship of stamps working group Navicula.
Right a stamp of the new German submarine class 212A.
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To show some more stamps and/or whole souvenir-sheets the pictures are high
compressed, so accuracy goes down.
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