brightonpete
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Post by brightonpete on Nov 1, 2020 13:09:47 GMT
Wow, their latest checklist has 40,000 in the list! 40,000 maps! Amazing!
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Nov 4, 2020 11:55:15 GMT
Panama Channel:
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 6, 2020 18:47:55 GMT
Block from San Marino for the 550 th anniversary of the treaty defining their borders with Italy:  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 7, 2020 17:37:21 GMT
New sheetlet from the Netherlands, commemorating the publication of the first atlases:  |
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cursus
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Post by cursus on Nov 7, 2020 18:12:31 GMT
For the International Cartography Conference, held in Barcelona on September 1995, we organised a nice exhibion of stamps and cartography.
The mini-sheet, shows a 1720 German map of Catalonia.
I worked for the organisation and revised the text of the catalog (bilingual English-Catalan)
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Nov 8, 2020 11:29:46 GMT
Fragment of the "Catalan Atlas" a ca 1350 work by Abraham Cresques who was working in Majorca (a Catalan island). It was a gift of our king Pere III to that of France and it's on the Paris National Library. This fragment, shows the Iberian peninsula and NW Africa, as well as Balearic islands. I guess, Michael, will recognise the stamp...
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 20, 2020 20:49:37 GMT
In the same order, the Maltese Europa 2020 issues, on the theme of historical postal routes:  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 21, 2020 8:33:09 GMT
The fourth arrival from yesterday was a set of new French issues, among which this one commemorating 400 years since the joining of Béarn country to France:  |
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cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Nov 21, 2020 9:02:25 GMT
The Tahità island, named on 1775 "Isla de Amat" after the Vicerroy of Perú, Manuel d'Amat i Junyent (Vacarisses, Catalonia, 1706 - Barcelona, 1782). In Barcelona, a square is named after him, and another one as well as a Palace on the rambles, after his widow, Francesca Fivaller (Barcelona, 1756-1791).
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 23, 2020 16:02:28 GMT
There don't appear to be many "maps on covers" in this thread, but I am an advocate of collecting topical covers so I am adding this cover to the mix. It commemorates the completion of Chickamauga Dam and displays a map of the navigable portion of the Tennessee River. The series of dams and locks on this river were projects carried out by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s. I'm not a maps collector, so I'll be placing this one in my Illustrated Commercial Covers collection.
I discovered an interesting aside on this cover while researching the Tennessee River projects on Wikipedia. Note just to the right of Chattanooga on the river, and also printed vertically in red, is the site of Harrison Bay State Park. The park and a companion, the Booker T. Washington State Park, were developed as recreational areas as part of the project. Curiously, Booker T. Washington Park is left off the map, perhaps intentionally so. Turns out that these parks were segregated with Booker T. Washington intended for black folks and Harrison Bay Park for the white folks. They remained that way until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The map proclaims that the project made the Tennessee River, which is a tributary of the Ohio River, a navigable channel to the Gulf. It seems odd to me that a river that runs southwest and then north would be an economical route to the Gulf of Mexico. Looks circuitous at best, but maybe cheaper than putting goods on a truck or train and shipping them to any one of the Gulf states.
Don StampHinger
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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 Dec 3, 2020 9:40:09 GMT
issued Nov.19th,1968 (from a definitive set of 16);
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cursus
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Post by cursus on Dec 7, 2020 8:26:36 GMT
SE of the Iberian Peninsula/ North Africa, on a 1970 Spanish stamp
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cursus
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Post by cursus on Dec 11, 2020 8:09:30 GMT
SE Asia
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cursus
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Post by cursus on Dec 11, 2020 8:10:15 GMT
Americas, Iberian Peninsula & Philipine Islands
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Post by stamphinger on Dec 20, 2020 16:30:21 GMT
I rediscovered this first-day cover in my shoe box collection and post it here as a companion to my November 23rd post, four posts above, of the map of the Tennessee River navigation system. This cover maps the navigable channel of the Ohio River and shows where the Tennessee River joins it just east of Cairo, Illinois. The Tennessee River is unnamed in the cachet, but it is the lower-most river shown that dips down into Alabama and Mississippi before turning northward. There were eight first-day cities, Evansville, Indiana, being one, for Sc. 681, the 2c stamp commemorating the canalization of the Ohio River.
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 31, 2020 16:43:23 GMT
Also in the thank you package, the Danish self-adhesive partner issue to the joint issue with France from 2013:  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 19, 2021 19:20:49 GMT
Another order arrived today. Among the stamps, this pair from Iceland issued in 1962 to commemorate the completion of a transatlantic cable:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 20, 2021 22:20:40 GMT
A stylised map of Island is featured on this Red Cross issue from 1975:  |
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Post by djcmh on Jan 22, 2021 6:10:27 GMT
French Polynesia will issue this souvenir sheet (the stamp will also be issued in a pane of 10 as well) on 22 January 2021 honoring Ferdinand Magellan's Crossing of Polynesia during his voyage of Circumnavigation |
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Post by djcmh on Jan 22, 2021 6:12:22 GMT
Turkey issued this souvenir sheet on 6 January 2021 honoring the centenary of Turkish independence. On the map are a montage of events from 1921 during the Turkish War of Independence. |
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Post by djcmh on Jan 22, 2021 6:14:29 GMT
Canada's Black History Month stamps issued 22 January 2021 depict maps showing the location of two historic Afro-Canadian communities - Amber Valley, Alberta and Willow Grove, New Brunswick |
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Post by djcmh on Jan 22, 2021 6:16:18 GMT
 Italy celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces with this stamp issued 15 January 2021 |
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Post by djcmh on Jan 22, 2021 6:17:44 GMT
Estonia continued its long-running Lighthouses series with this stamp issued 21 January 2021 depicting Letipea Lighthouse and showing its location along the Estonian coast. |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 30, 2021 20:53:15 GMT
Among the stamps in the BIOT packet, this se-tenant strip of five, featuring various maps of the territory:  |
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Post by djcmh on Feb 5, 2021 4:52:23 GMT
Another Italian map stamp for 2021, this time celebrating the 150th anniversary of Rome's integration into Italy and the move of the Italian capital from Florence to Rome. |
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cursus
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Post by cursus on Feb 6, 2021 8:29:13 GMT
Venezuela claiming "their Guyana":
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 10, 2021 22:04:46 GMT
A recent issue from Austria, commemorating the centenary of the Carinthian plebiscite to join Austria after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire following the defeat of World War I, instead of joining the nascent country of Yugoslavia (not yet named that).  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 11, 2021 20:57:55 GMT
Various maps on Gabon stamps, celebrating international collaboration and remembering explorer Savorgnan de Brazza, after which their capital city is named:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 12, 2021 21:39:42 GMT
Another map of Gabon on this stamp for 40 years of Lions Club activities in the country:  |
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cursus
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Post by cursus on Feb 23, 2021 9:54:51 GMT
Turkey
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