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Maritime Topics on Stamps
August stamps 2021
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Aland, a sheet with one stamp, "Tall Ship Races 2021".
Pictured left is a painting of the alandian
painter Juha Pykäläinen. On the right a picture with participants in the races.
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Canada, a souvenir sheet with two stamps, 100 years of the yacht "Bluenose".
The schooner was built
in 1921 and was used in races and also in fishing.
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Philippines, a sheet with 10 stamps, "Indigenous Boats".
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United Nations, a sheet with eight stamps.
Olympia 2021, Sport for Peace.
Here only the sailing sheet, five more sheets have appeared.
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Ireland, a set of four stamps, "Ice Men, Fir Oighir".
Including this stamp about Edward Bransfield, 1820, Irish Antarctic Explorers with the ship "Williams".
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Ireland, the set "Ice Men" also includes the adjacent stamp.
Francis Crozier, Ross Expedition 1839 - 1843. The ship is supposed to be the HMS "Terror".
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Portugal, a set of two stamps, Antarctica Discovery.
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen was the first to discover the Antarctic in 1820 with his ship "Wostok".
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Russia, a small sheet with a stamp, 75 years of Kaliningrad as a Russian exclave (Kaliningrad Oblast).
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Russia, two separate stamps.
Left to 800 years of Nizhny Novgorod.
On the right an autonomous submersible, the "Apparat Vitjas" for rescue operations.
This stamp belongs to
a setenant with four stamps on technological achievements.
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China, a sheet with two stamps, "Romance of the three Kingdoms", a classic novella of the
chinese literature.
This stamp with straw boats in a hail of arrows.
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Saint Pierre et Miquelon, a single stamp with the trawler "Bearn".
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Sao Tome et Principe, a sheet with four stamps, transport of the corona vaccine.
On the left the container freighter "Laust Maersk", on the right a port scene.
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Saint Vincent & Grenadines, two sheets with a total of five stamps.
400 years of the Pilgrim Fathers and their Mayflower.
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Guinea Bissau, two sheets with five stamps, 500 years of Magellan. In the lower left, death of Magellan
with the Chief Lapu-Lapu who was involved.
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Togo, two sheets with five stamps, 280 years of La Perouse (1741 - 1788).
The "Astrolabe" is shown on the left and the "Esperance" is shown on the right.
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Wallis et Futuna, a set with four stamps, ancient pirogues.
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Guinea, two sheets with five stamps; William Speir's Bruce died 100 years ago.
The research ship "Princesse Alice" and the "Scotia" are shown on the stamps.
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Guinea, a setenant of four stamps, 160 years of Fridtjof Nansen.
The "Fram" is shown at the top right.
With the upside-down stamps the designer probably want to create a rarity.
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Central Africa, two sheets with five stamps. 80 years ago the two battleships "Bismarck" and "Hood"
met each other.
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Togo, two sheets with five stamps, the "Titanic" continued to be used as a money printing machine.
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Djibouti, two sheets with five stamps, lighthouses.
Depicted are Fastnet, Pontusval, Dyrholaey,
Skudenes, Madonetta and Naga Yeva.
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