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Post by Bas S Warwick on Feb 26, 2019 4:35:35 GMT
It doesn't seem 10 years since my name was carried to Mars
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 26, 2019 21:22:27 GMT
Stamp for the centennial of the Royal Society of New Zealand, featuring an aurora australis:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 28, 2019 22:17:20 GMT
Sheetlet from Sierra Leone for the International Year of Light:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 1, 2019 20:14:59 GMT
A recent issue from Gambia, purportedly to illustrate the Inner planets of the Solar System, but both the planets and the sun seem to be pictured as little more than circles of marble:
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Post by salentin on Mar 1, 2019 20:29:35 GMT
Pretty strange ! Mars looks to be bigger than Venus.However in reality Venus is nearly of the same size as Earth.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 2, 2019 8:40:22 GMT
FDC from Kiribati commemorating the 20th anniversary of the moon landing:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 3, 2019 11:55:28 GMT
Sheetlet from Palau for the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 4, 2019 20:31:33 GMT
Tanzanian block commemorating 50 years of space exploration:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 5, 2019 20:01:09 GMT
Egyptian stamp and block showing the total solar eclipse of 29 March 2006:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 6, 2019 20:35:07 GMT
Three FDCs from Ghana commemorating the Moon landing:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 8, 2019 20:22:35 GMT
Marking International Women's Day, a series of stamps from Sao Tomé e Principe, featuring Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to go into space:
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Post by tobben63 on Mar 12, 2019 21:08:42 GMT
First man on the moon! What amazes me on this stamp is the "perfect" cancel. I would say it's rare on a US stamp? Anchorage OCT 12 1970 Is it Scot no C76? Michel 990, Stanley Gibbons A1367
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 12, 2019 21:55:51 GMT
A few space stamps from the stamp show stock cards:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 16, 2019 15:54:02 GMT
Various space-themed stamps I picked up from Beryllium Guy 's trading album from last week's stamp show:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 19, 2019 20:48:20 GMT
An issue from Turkish Cyprus, commemorating the total solar eclipse of August 1999:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 23, 2019 12:55:18 GMT
Set of four stamps issued by Switzerland in 1952 for the centenary of their telecommunications service:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 24, 2019 15:03:26 GMT
From the set of covers I got at the "Fête du Timbre", This FDC from Gabon in 1965 for the Year of the Quiet Sun:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 26, 2019 18:46:19 GMT
Another FDC from the stamp show album, from Tunisia for space exploration:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 31, 2019 11:50:24 GMT
From this week's soaking material, a couple of German issues about astronomy:
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 11, 2019 7:48:23 GMT
This year if of course the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, which will lead to a flurry of commemorative issues. Here is a Tuvalu block example:
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 12, 2019 7:49:03 GMT
Block from Guyana issued to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Moon landing:
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 13, 2019 20:08:41 GMT
Ascension Island series commemorating 25 years of the US space program:
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 14, 2019 19:35:29 GMT
Another issue for the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, this time a block from The Gambia:
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 15, 2019 20:03:10 GMT
Antigua & Barbuda souvenir sheet commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing with crew portraits of Apollo XI:
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 16, 2019 20:38:49 GMT
Recent block from Belgium celebrating the country's space achievements:
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 17, 2019 19:04:24 GMT
Block from the Gambia, accompanying the one posted previously, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing:
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 18, 2019 6:56:37 GMT
Companion block to the one posted above for Antigua and Barbuda for the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing:
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 18, 2019 8:01:30 GMT
Paraguay block commemorating the Apollo program:
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 19, 2019 6:30:17 GMT
Bénin issue from 1976 commemorating the 5th anniversary of the Apollo XIV mission:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 11, 2019 20:30:45 GMT
A few cheapies grabbed at yesterday's Stamp Day:
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