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Post by perfs12 on Aug 4, 2013 11:38:09 GMT
A Dependency of St Helena, the island had been under the rule of the Admiralty from 1815 until 1922. The island was discovered by the Portuguese Joao da Nova on Ascension Day, 1501. Ascension is of volcanic origin, and is dominated by Green Mountain, a huge elliptical crater 2,820 feet above the sea. Ascension 1934 5s black & brown SG30 Green Mountain
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Post by cjd on Aug 4, 2013 12:48:23 GMT
That's a great scan of a beautiful stamp.
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Post by perfs12 on Aug 4, 2013 13:10:17 GMT
Thanks cjd, it is a great stamp. And here is another great stamp from Ascension: Ascension 1924 1½d rose-red line through "c" variety SG12e. This stamp is priced at £160 in the 2013 Stanley Gibbons catalogue. Stanley Gibbons have only listed the variety in the last couple of editions of their catalogues, but the variety has been known for some time. Bridger & Kay in their Five Reigns Catalogue (1980) list it, as does Robson Lowe (1949).
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Post by Perfs14 on Aug 4, 2013 18:14:06 GMT
The Green Mountain stamp is absolutely gorgeous...I wonder where I can get one?
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Post by roos on Aug 5, 2013 3:02:24 GMT
Nice Variety perfs12
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Post by cjd on Aug 5, 2013 3:41:28 GMT
Here is Sc#1 for Ascension, overprinted on a definitive of St. Helena:
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Post by cjd on Aug 5, 2013 4:03:47 GMT
Here are a couple more of the pictorials: The 1/2d showing a view of the capital, Georgetown: The 5d showing the Three Sisters, which I believe to be dormant volcanoes: I like the way the designer put a palm tree in the frame, to add some depth and get the benefit of the second color from the frame.
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Post by comingfrom on Aug 9, 2013 1:45:25 GMT
Let me guess, Perfs12 got that one from you, Perf14? I managed to get the '34 set on eBay, but I realized, I am going have to bite the bullet, and dig deep, to get the earlier sets. Ascension stamps are very popular, and it's hard to pick them up cheap. I still need the KGV Jubilee set too, if anybody has a spare. `Paul
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Post by cjd on Aug 9, 2013 2:23:00 GMT
I should note for completeness that the SG#1 / Sc#1 that I posted is printed on a St. Helena stamp that was not actually issued in St. Helena. You won't find the 1/2 d with the watermark of mult script CA without the 'ASCENSION' overprint.
(Or, if you do, start making retirement plans.)
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Post by Bas S Warwick on Mar 4, 2014 2:36:57 GMT
1 ½d block of 24 including one with the DAVIT FLAW. (Lower image). Is there another flaw known 4 stamps above the Davit? (see image below). Something floating in the water above the standing couple. Can anyone confirm. ((I dont think its a fly spec) Davit flaw below
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Post by rod222 on Mar 4, 2014 17:12:12 GMT
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Post by Bas S Warwick on Mar 7, 2014 1:05:31 GMT
Thanks for the info and link Rod. I'd forgotten about the 'Mountaineer' flaw, but I have eye-balled on one of my lot somewhere - perhaps on the same sheet.
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Post by tomiseksj on Apr 28, 2016 13:41:25 GMT
Interesting that according to Britlink; The main export items are Ascension Island postage stamps, first issued in 1922, and, since 2010, commemorative coins (which are legal tender but non-circulating) and commercial fishing licences for long-line tuna fishing vessels operating to ICCAT quotas. With a population of about 800, no national postal service, and little, if any, apparent need for postage stamps on the island, export of postage stamps is surely a profitable endeavor. Below is from the Post Office & Philatelic Bureau pages of the Island's website:
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Post by cjoprey on Oct 28, 2019 14:36:25 GMT
(wow - post 100 already???) Scott 40 used and 40a mint - scanned together, and when compared under good light they do seem to show a slightly different colour:
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Post by WERT on Oct 28, 2019 14:48:41 GMT
cjoprey There are 2 different colours as shown from my software below. Robert
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Post by kgvistamps on Oct 29, 2019 13:11:47 GMT
There are two distinctive shades of the first printing 1/2d value. They are not catalogued, but are the result of the production run going past a single day. They had to mix the ink the next morning and it did not exactly match the one used the previous day. You can sort the colors based on the long E flaw which does not show up on the first day's production but does show up on the second day's output. See below for images of the first printings (Perf 13.5). The top one is from the first batch and the bottom one is from the second batch. Note the grey-black head color in the second scan.
It is possible to identify most of the printings from this set based on sorting by the perforations and then by the paper and gum. Here is my article discussing the technical details.
Here is a second link to the page scans from my collection sorted using the method listed in the article above.
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Post by cjoprey on Oct 29, 2019 14:28:54 GMT
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Post by renden on Dec 15, 2019 18:27:11 GMT
Found in one of my late dad's boxes:
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Post by hdm1950 on Jul 31, 2021 3:14:28 GMT
Looking in my World Wide Volume 1 this evening for something else and I came across this 1949 registered cover from Ascension to England. It cannot be called a full set as a couple of the early colours are missing and there were many perf varieties of this set. Still more interesting as a cover I guess than soaking the stamps off. I think some of the covers like this were a precursor of CTO’s.
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Post by REL1948 on Sept 7, 2022 22:04:45 GMT
The Postage Stamps of Ascension Island 1922-1956
Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island, 7°56′ south of the Equator in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from the coast of Africa and 1,400 miles (2,300 km) from the coast of South America. It is governed as part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, of which the main island, Saint Helena, is around 800 miles (1,300 km) to the southeast. The territory also includes the sparsely populated Tristan da Cunha archipelago, 2,300 miles (3,700 km) to the south, about halfway to the Antarctic Circle. Population hovers around 800 people.
Named after the day of its recorded discovery, Ascension of Jesus, Ascension Island was an important safe haven as a coaling station to mariners and a refueling stop for commercial airliners back in the days of international air travel by flying boats. Ascension Island was garrisoned by the British Admiralty from 22 October 1815 to 1922. During World War II, it was an important naval and air station, especially providing antisubmarine warfare bases in the Battle of the Atlantic.
The island is the location of RAF Ascension Island, which is a Royal Air Force station, a European Space Agency rocket tracking station, an Anglo-American signals intelligence facility and the BBC World Service Atlantic Relay Station. The island was used extensively as a staging point by the British military during the Falklands War. Ascension Island hosts one of four ground antennas that assist in the operation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) navigational system (the others are on Kwajalein Island, Diego Garcia, and Cape Canaveral).
NASA operates a Meter Class Autonomous Telescope (MCAT) on Ascension Island for tracking orbital debris, which is potentially hazardous to operating spacecraft and astronauts at a facility called the John Africano NASA/AFRL Orbital Debris Observatory. Rob From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Post by JeffS on Sept 8, 2022 0:44:28 GMT
REL1948 Understated elegance. Lovely
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Post by daniel on Apr 6, 2023 1:10:43 GMT
On Ascension Island, the BBC Atlantic Relay station broadcasts World Service radio programmes to Africa using shortwave transmitters. BFBS - the British Forces Broadcasting Service - and TV services for the US military are available. Volcano Radio carries locally-produced programmes. To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Broadcasting to the World, this set was issued for Christmas 1982 on Ascension. This presentation pack was produced for the BBC for sale at their shop at Bush House, the London Headquarters of BBC External Services.
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Post by captphil on Apr 9, 2024 11:04:23 GMT
One thing that needs to be said about Ascension is that there is no indigenous or permanent population. All residents on the island are employed by the various militaries, government services, and organizations that make use of Ascension. Access is fairly restricted. One can visit as a tourist but only with arrangements, permission, and medical evacuation insurance. There are about 550 resident workers from St. Helena and 250+ residents from other countries, primarily UK & US.
RAF Ascension Island has a staff of 17. The facility is called Wideawake Airfield, which is a scary name for an airfield. Ascension is also famously home to the worst golf course in the world.
I love Ascension, it is one of my very favorite islands, but with all its philatelic history and interest, Ascension is essentially a stationary aircraft carrier that issues stamps. In fact, let's compare Ascension to a real aircraft carrier.
Ascension Island pop.--806 USS Harry S. Truman pop.--6012
Well, I don't know what that means but it was fun anyway...
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Post by rod222 on Apr 9, 2024 11:21:23 GMT
Ascension BBC I believe the Postmaster of Ascension.
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Post by marbles on Apr 9, 2024 17:27:12 GMT
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