salentin
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Post by salentin on Jan 12, 2019 1:19:58 GMT
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Jan 15, 2019 1:50:56 GMT
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salentin
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collecting Germany,where I live and about 20 more countries,half of them in Asia east of the Indus
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Post by salentin on Jan 18, 2019 2:11:57 GMT
Fiji,issued Jan 26th,1976;
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 20, 2019 8:08:39 GMT
Block from Ecuador celebrating 100 years of the Guayaquil to Quito railway line:
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Jan 21, 2019 16:44:52 GMT
Australia,issued Feb.11th,1970;
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 22, 2019 21:50:07 GMT
Block from Thailand showing circular stamps celebrating 120 years of train service in the country:
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 23, 2019 21:26:05 GMT
Block issued by Sri Lanka on the occasion of Post Day 2017 featuring postal trains:
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Jan 24, 2019 2:29:31 GMT
Great Britain,issued Aug.13th,1975
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Jan 25, 2019 16:54:07 GMT
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brightonpete
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On a hike at Goodrich-Loomis
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Post by brightonpete on Feb 1, 2019 14:33:00 GMT
Germany celebrated the 125th anniversary of the railroad on December 7, 1960 with this stamp. Scott #822.
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brightonpete
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On a hike at Goodrich-Loomis
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Post by brightonpete on Feb 1, 2019 14:36:06 GMT
Not a train stamp, per sé, but the inauguration of the "Bird Flight Line" linking Germany with Denmark. Issued on May 14, 1963. Scott #864.
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salentin
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collecting Germany,where I live and about 20 more countries,half of them in Asia east of the Indus
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Post by salentin on Feb 8, 2019 1:55:47 GMT
Greece,issued May 15th,1978; from a set of 4;
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Feb 10, 2019 1:21:28 GMT
Iraq,issued Dec.22nd,1975
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 16, 2019 23:08:26 GMT
TAAF stamp showing the railway cars used on the tiny island of Juan de Nova near Madagascar:
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Post by Bas S Warwick on Feb 21, 2019 4:30:27 GMT
Salentin showed this Aussie 3 1/2d 1954 stamp a few post back.........I have a nice block of them. Amazingly 65 years old!
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salentin
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collecting Germany,where I live and about 20 more countries,half of them in Asia east of the Indus
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Post by salentin on Feb 23, 2019 1:34:04 GMT
Kenya,"Railways of East-Africa",issued Oct.4th,1976
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 23, 2019 20:35:00 GMT
Some trains from Australia, including a few from the packet I received a little while ago from feebletodix :
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 24, 2019 17:22:10 GMT
New Zealand train issues:
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 12, 2019 20:56:55 GMT
A few trains and carts on rails from stock cards picked up at this week-end stamp show:
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Mar 15, 2019 1:26:00 GMT
Kuwait,issued 1939,from a definitive set of 13.
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 19, 2019 21:23:56 GMT
Australian train block coming as a gift complement to another order:
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Apr 3, 2019 2:26:40 GMT
Malawi,issued July 24th,1968
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Apr 10, 2019 1:47:10 GMT
Eleven states of Malaya issued a defintive series of 11 in 1957. Stamps in slightly changed coloures,different perforations and with changed ovals were issued in later years. The 8 C. stamps show a train on the east-coast railway-line.Shown are three of them.
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salentin
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collecting Germany,where I live and about 20 more countries,half of them in Asia east of the Indus
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Post by salentin on Apr 26, 2019 2:18:46 GMT
Mongolia,issued Feb.1st,1956; from a set of 2;
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salentin
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Post by salentin on May 1, 2019 2:06:04 GMT
Mongolia,independence,postal modernization 40th anniversary; from a set of 8;
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salentin
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Post by salentin on May 14, 2019 2:10:49 GMT
Mongolia,issued July 11th,1971,from a set of 7 "modern transportation/independence 50th anniversary".
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salentin
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Post by salentin on May 22, 2019 2:48:05 GMT
Mongolia,issued April 5th,1974,from a set of 7;
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Jun 1, 2019 16:49:32 GMT
Mongolian-Soviet-Friendship,issued Oct.15th,1976
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 9, 2019 17:43:07 GMT
In today's soaking, Swiss issue for the centenary of the Federal Train Service:
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kasvik
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What I collect: Cancels mostly, especially Sweden Gävle and Lidingö, Switzerland Geneva, Germany Pforzheim
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Post by kasvik on Jun 13, 2019 3:05:10 GMT
The thread uncovered lots of beauties and several that strike me as outright brilliant:
tomiseksi: Bulgaria and Finland renden: Hungary and Switzerland salentin: Austria and another Austria
What makes them great? All feature three-quarters views of locomotives in motion, mostly line engraved/intaglio, usually without additional detail—minimal distractions—and all mid-Twentieth Century. It is as if the designers were learning from each other, learning how to do it right.
Earlier locomotive stamps can be good be very good—like the famous US Pan American and parcel post Mail Train (Scott 295 and Q5)—but they distract with huge Beaux-Arts frames, overwhelming the central vignettes. But nothing kills success like repetition. I guess eventually the 1930s and '40s minimalism got boring; later designers kept adding detail, adding colors, distracting again, weakening the effect again.
Here is my personal favorite, by Olle Hjortzberg from 1936 (Facit 253, Swedish of course !):
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