rod222
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Post by rod222 on Dec 14, 2014 23:47:56 GMT
 Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips. UPU   No Steiner Page, Not Listed in Scott (Miniature Sheets / Panes)   |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Dec 14, 2014 23:55:49 GMT
Before Stamp collecting began, there existed a conditional human state, called "Melancholia". So we have a lot more to thank, Rowland Hill for........... Here is Melancholia by Albrecht Durer, and some "Magical Squares" (Top Right Hand corner of sheet) attributed by the Chinese 2,500 years before Christ. In Durer's, no matter how you add them up, all lines add up to 34 (Halley's comet thematic)   |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Jun 3, 2015 2:28:42 GMT
1973 Steiner Page5A Christmas Paintings by Masters. Note: The 1c by Van Dyke looks like a spelling error, however Van Dyke, suffers many spelling variants.  |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Jun 3, 2015 3:20:34 GMT
1973 Page3 Easter Paintings by Masters.  1975 Page 77 Semi Postals Surcharge for Children's activities during the holidays.  |
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Post by rod222 on Jun 3, 2015 3:22:27 GMT
1978 Page80. Easter Paintings Semi postal.  |
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Post by rod222 on Sept 28, 2024 5:48:50 GMT
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Hugh
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What I collect: Worldwide Occupation Stamps and Postal History; and, anything that looks interesting.
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Post by Hugh on Sept 28, 2024 12:26:09 GMT
I'm sad to say that I wasn't aware of this island or these stamps before your post. The intial series, issued between 1903 and 1927 (Sc. 1-36), are quite interesting. I've just read that Aitutaki was "the only island in the Cook Islands that was annexed rather than ceded" and that that happened by proclamation on October 9, 1900. I suppose it could be argued that these early overprints on New Zealand stamps, before the overprints stopped in 1920, might be considered occupation stamps? At the very least, they were a declaration of soverignty (which all stamps are, I suppose). There must have been a lot them printed. With a couple of exceptions, the CVs for these early stamps (mint or used) are very low for an island of only 1,200 people. Thanks for posting them. |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Sept 28, 2024 19:08:56 GMT
Hugh I've just read that Aitutaki was "the only island in the Cook Islands that was annexed rather than ceded" and that that happened by proclamation on October 9, 1900. I suppose it could be argued that these early overprints on New Zealand stamps, before the overprints stopped in 1920, might be considered occupation stamps?
Interesting comments, Hugh, I like the way you often research, and dig deeper about the images. Here, I just plead ignorance. I live in an geographic area, where there are sensitivities of "First Nations People" I do sympathise, having spent hours on my genealogy, to find I come from a rich area of sea borne voyages of "discovery" (The South West of England) A time when Europeans floated around the globe, impaling their standards on the beachfront and claiming ownership thus forward. Was not Raleigh's voyages beginning in 1584 to the Virginia colonies, the occupation of Roanoke, an "Occupation" ? Gilbert's Voyage to "Newfoundland" 1583 ? In most cases "first nations peoples" were replaced. Tough questions, I have no answers, But knowing my great great grandfather, was an illiterate Black sailor, from Saint Martin's in the North Caribbean, has me with melancholy, with how modern displaced peoples, deal with their history.
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