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Maritime Topics on Stamps May stamps 2010
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TAAF, a single stamp with the freighter "Ile St. Paul".
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TAAF, a single stamp with the French polar explorer Dr. Jean Rivolier.
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India, a single stamp, 300th anniversary of the 16th Punjab regiment.
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India, day of the navy. A beautiful cancellation shows the SS "Loyalty", the former
RMS "Empress of India".
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San Marino, a single stamp, the museum of the emigrants.
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Netherlands, a small sheet with one stamp. The lighthouse of Breskens is depicted.
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Estonia, two new stamps in the series of lighthouses.
We see the upper and lower light of Suurupi at the Northcoast of Estonia.
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Danmark, two stamps to "The North By The Sea - Life At The Coast". The dockyard at Odense and
part of the port of Aarhus are depicted.
To this theme following countries issued stamps: Danmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Aland, Iceland,
Färöer and Greenland.
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Iceland, a souvenir sheet with two stamps "Life At The Coast".
Fish trawlers and herring factories at Siglufjördur forces a herring boom for Icelandic economy.
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Sweden, a souvenir sheet with two stamps "Life At The Coast".
The stamps depict a sea mussel and a Norway lobster fishing.
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Great Britain, a souvenir sheet with four stamps, Dunkirk.
In World War II, the British troops,
who fought on the continent against Germany, were brought back via Dunkirk to their Island.
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North Korea, a souvenir sheet with two stamps, lighthouses.
The Norwegian tower of Lindesnes is depicted.
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France, a souvenir sheet with two stamps. We see the helicopter carrier
"Jeanne d'Arc" with three crew members.
The stamps we have shown already on our December stamp page.
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Portugal, a set with five stamps, Transportation IV.
Among them the ferry "Madragoa". The stamp were also issued imperforated.
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Romania, a set with five stamps, lighthouses at the Black Sea coast.
Following towers are depicted: Constanta, Sulina, Mangalia, Tuzla and Constanta Nord.
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Palau, a souvenir sheet with six stamps, "Charles Darwin 200th Birthday".
From left top we see HMS "Beagle", captain Fitzroy and a sextant of the "Beagle".
In the second row there are two blueprints of the "Beagle", Charles Darwin and
the title page of a publication.
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Japan, a souvenir sheet with five stamps of the year 2009.
Among them this local craft.
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Haiti, two souvenir sheets with each nine stamps about the earthquake in January 2010.
Among them a maritime stamp with the hospital vessel USNS "Comfort".
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Lundy, a single stamp about "Landing Christmas Mail".
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We have here also a boom
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in personalized stamps.
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You can order many personalized stamps via www.sieger.de.
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Netherland, many personalized stamps with ships and lighthouses!
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Jersey, a set with six stamps. From left top there are depicted: -
38p - Cutter ROYAL CHARLOTTE (c. 1794)
- 42p - Iron Paddle Steamer DISPATCH (c. 1848)
- 45p - Iron Screw Steamer DIANA (c. 1877)
- 55p - Twin Screw Steamer REINDEER (c. 1897)
- 61p - Tripple Screw Steamer CAESAREA II (c. 1910)
- 80p - Twin Screw Steamer ST. PATRICK III (c. 1948)
3.00 M.S. - Paddle Steamer WATERSPRITE (c. 1827), sorry, no picture.
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Sao Tome & Principe, two souvenir sheets, lighthouses.
Maybe cinderellas (?).
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Djibouti, a set with four stamps tall sailing ships.
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Cinderellas (?).
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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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