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Maritime Topics on Stamps
October stamps 2010



Pitcairn Pitcairn Islands, a se-tenant of four stamps with a gutter "Hotspots".
The research vessel L'ATALANTE and the submersibles NAUTILE are depicted, above and under water.
Pitcairn


UN
United Nations, a se-tenant of five stamps "UN Transport".
We see watercrafts, which are on duty for the United Nations.


Montenegrin, a single stamp "Pomorstvo 2010", a sea traffic fair.
Montenegro


Russia
Russia, a small souvenir sheet with one stamp, 150th birthday fo Isaac Levitan.
He was a landscape painter, on the stamp we see a port canvas of him.


Netherlands Antilles, a se-tenant of ten stamps "Ships 2010".

From left top we see the stamps with their Dutch imprint:
Osberg 800, Dromon 910,
Cocca 1500, Mary 1661,
Houtport 1700, Santissima Trindad 1769,
Vrachtschip 1800, Amistad 1839,
Oorlogsschip 1840 and Nederlands schip 1850.

Ned. Ant.


Canada
Canada, a single stamp "Home Children".
This stamp issue recognizes the experiences of the more than 100,000 Home Children who were sent to Canada starting in 1869 and during the years following the Second World War.
The stamp features an image of the SS Sardinian, a ship that carried children from Liverpool to Quebec. (Auke Palmhof).


Danmark, one automat stamp with a picture of a viking boat.
We find this stamp also on a card for the Roskilde Stamp Fair (November 2010).
DK


Färöer
Føroyar, a set with four automat stamps "boat races".


Sao Tome & Principe, a souvenir sheet with five stamps, early oil disasters.
Left top the EXXON VALDEZ is depicted (1989) and right bottom the collision of the ATLANTIC EMPRESS with the AGEAN CAPTAIN (1979).

Have a look to ships on stamps topic page about tankers, click on this line.

Sao Tome


Sao Tome
Sao Tome & Principe, again another souvenir sheet with one stamp, the oil disaster at the Gulf of Mexico 2010 with the drilling platform DEEPWATER HORIZON.

Oil catastrophes are terrible, but the design and printing of the these sheets are made "quick and dirty" .... ???, "No" to such sheets.


Guinea
Guinea
Guine-Bissau, two souvenir sheets about "Pirates". We see from left Mary Read, Anne Bonny, Stede Bonnet, Captain William Kidd and Sir Henry Morgan.
On the right sheet Edward Teach Blackbeard.

You can see much more and better stamps on our topic page about pirates, click on this line


NL
Netherlands, a personalized stamp with the EURODAM.


Germany, a personalized stamp with the port entrance and the lighthouse of Lindau at the Lake Constance.
Dtld.


Dtld.
Germany, two stamps of the private post PostModern, 174 anniversary Saxony steamshipping.
The paddle wheeler FREUNDSCHAFT PRATELSTVI and KARL MARX are depicted.


Dtld.
Germany, a souvenir sheet with nine stamps of the private post Ridas,
Hanse Sail Rostock 2010.
We see the ROALD AMUNDSEN, LISA VON LÜBECK, FALKEN,
ALBERT JOHANNES, GREIF, ATLANTIS,
KRUZENSHTERN, DAR MLODZIEZY and the FRITJOF NANSEN.


Åland, a personalized stamp with a sailing boat.
Aaland


Austria
Austria, a personalized stamp with railway and ship on the Lake Achen.



To show some more stamps and/or whole souvenir-sheets the pictures are high compressed, so accuracy goes down.


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