hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 23, 2023 17:42:27 GMT
A very welcome new arrival, German Cameroon MiNr. 9, the famous Hohenzollern in 10pfg red:  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 28, 2023 20:59:20 GMT
Souvenir sheet from the Central African Republic, issued in 2012, on the theme of cruise ships and showing the Disney Magic vessel:  Although I do think the juxtaposition with the Titanic is rather unfortunate... |
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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 Oct 19, 2023 8:23:26 GMT
Spain, 1930 Columbus' ships.
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renden
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What I collect: Canada-USA-France-Lithuania-Austria--Germany-Mauritius-French Colonies in Africa
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Post by renden on Oct 19, 2023 18:03:44 GMT
PERU 1951 River Gunboat Maranon Sc C115 40c yellow green  |
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renden
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Post by renden on Oct 20, 2023 14:57:21 GMT
SPAIN Ships 1964 Sc 1254 1p Warship S Trinidad Sc 1260 6p Cruiser Baleares  |
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Linda
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Ex-mathematician turned visual artist and touring cyclist to bike across Canada, Europe, Japan etc.
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Post by Linda on Oct 23, 2023 9:22:21 GMT
One of the 3 stamps in the series Trans-Atlantic Cruise Ships of Poland (Poland, 2023):  |
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Linda
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Ex-mathematician turned visual artist and touring cyclist to bike across Canada, Europe, Japan etc.
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Post by Linda on Oct 23, 2023 10:57:43 GMT
Is canoe considered 'ship'? It's a water vessel nevertheless. Here is a pane of 4 stamps of the series Small Craft, Native Boats issued in 1989 in Canada:  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 28, 2023 17:28:55 GMT
From the 1967 set issued by the New Hebrides (here with French labels) and commemorating 25 years since the South Pacific war operations, the HMAS Canberra during a convoy escort:  |
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hrdoktorx
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What I collect: France (and French territories), Africa, Canada, USA, Germany, Guatemala, stamps about science, flags, maps, stamps on stamps...
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 29, 2023 8:50:11 GMT
From the last set of definitives issued by French Guiana in 1947, the preferred mode of transportation in the Amazon rainforest, the pirogue:  |
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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 Nov 6, 2023 13:16:35 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 Nov 9, 2023 13:44:32 GMT
Issued June 19th,2019.(from a set of three: "(sport)-games of the Indian Ocean islands"
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 12, 2023 16:02:58 GMT
Souvenir sheet issued by Lesotho in 1999 featuring the Titanic:  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 13, 2023 22:07:25 GMT
Souvenir sheet issued by Guiné Bissau in 2000 showing the Rita Maria:  |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Nov 13, 2023 23:37:04 GMT
Souvenir sheet issued by Guiné Bissau in 2000 showing the Rita Maria: 
The Flags over the Foc'sle, read (you guessed it) GUINE BISSAU
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Post by PostmasterGS on Nov 14, 2023 0:47:56 GMT
The Flags over the Foc'sle, read (you guessed it) GUINE BISSAU The real question, rod222 , is did you remember the flags from memory or have to look them up?  |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Nov 14, 2023 2:10:32 GMT
PostmasterGS The real question, rod222 , is did you remember the flags from memory or have to look them up? I've been caught out ! Of course, looked them up, some have individual meanings, but always like reading them, if I can, esp. on older paintings. PS: Been meaning to place a set of flags, (name) on an address sticker for my mail one of those "going to do" chores. Currently only have the Aussie Constellation on my Air Mail Etiquette
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 14, 2023 20:16:02 GMT
I'll say that's attention to detail in the stamp design!
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 14, 2023 20:30:50 GMT
Set of three souvenir sheets (out of four) issued by the Bahamas in 1992 to celebrate the 500 th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World:  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 15, 2023 20:11:25 GMT
New souvenir sheet from the Australian Antarctic Territory, commemorating 250 years since the first circumnavigation of the white continent:  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 16, 2023 22:04:56 GMT
Issue from Portuguese Macau in 1985, showing a motor junk common in the South China seas:  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 17, 2023 19:58:11 GMT
Sheet of stamps issued by Ecuador in 2014 for the Velas meeting of Latin American school sailing ships:  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 26, 2023 12:37:41 GMT
Miniature sheet issued by Switzerland in 1978 for the Lausanne National Stamp Exhibition (LEMANEX) showing various boat types navigating on Lake Geneva (Lac Léman in French) and other Swiss lakes:  |
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Linda
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Ex-mathematician turned visual artist and touring cyclist to bike across Canada, Europe, Japan etc.
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Post by Linda on Dec 7, 2023 10:58:58 GMT
This set of 3 Austrian stamps was issued in 1979 to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the First Danube Steam Shipping Company:  |
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Linda
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Ex-mathematician turned visual artist and touring cyclist to bike across Canada, Europe, Japan etc.
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Post by Linda on Dec 7, 2023 11:03:08 GMT
This Austrian stamp issued in 1973 celebrates the centenary of the discovery of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Ocean. The archipelago was named after the Austro-Hungarian Emperor, Franz Joseph I and is currently held by Russia.  |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Dec 19, 2023 12:43:30 GMT
A favorite of mine which combines ships and maps. An important treaty which would never have occurred today. "Spain and Portugal affirmed the papal decrees of the Inter Caetera in the treaty signed in the Spanish town of Tordesillas in June 1494 . But they moved the line of demarcation between the Spanish and Portuguese zones of influence several hundred miles farther west. This placed an as-yet-undiscovered Brazil in the Portuguese half of the world, as well as protected Portugal’s African trade route from any European competition. The world was now officially divided."
I'll have to get that one myself, right up my ally.Further Spanish America
Has Heaven reserved in pity to the poor
No pathless waste or undiscover'd shore ?
No secret island in the boundless Main ?
No peaceful desart, yet unclaim'd by Spain?
Johnson's sonorous lines reflected a long tradition of envy and resentment. At the beginning of Johnson's century, the Spanish empire in the Americas was already a hundred years old; the most solidly established of the European oversea empires, the biggest, both in population and territorial extent, by common consent the most productive (at least potentially) in terms of profit to those in a position to exploit its wealth. Its territorial boundaries were, for the most part, undefined. Officially, in its formal external dealings, the Spanish Crown claimed a general sovereignty over the whole of the Americas, and an exclusive right of navigation in the Pacific and the Caribbean, except where it had itself admitted exceptions. This claim — though unenforceable in its extreme form, and though only brought into the open when major Spanish interests seemed to be threatened - was still, and was long to remain, a basic principle of Spanish foreign policy. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the exceptions explicitly or tacitly admitted were fairly numerous.
Of the explicit exceptions, the biggest was also the oldest, having been made, unwittingly, at the very beginning of New World settlement. An immense area of land in South America undoubtedly lay to the east of the demarcation line established by the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, and so was reserved, so far as Spain was concerned, to Portugal.
The line had never been fixed on the ground, and could not be, with the navigational techniques then available. It was generally supposed to cross the coast somewhere in the muddy no-man's-land west of the Amazon delta, and again to the south somewhere near the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. Disputed territory on the lower Amazon was no great matter in the seventeenth century: for although the great river had first been navigated by a boatload of Spaniards in 1542, Spain had shown little interest in it since Orellana's day.
Disputed territory on the Rio de la Plata was more serious. The territory itself was not of much importance; indeed it was almost unoccupied, except for a few ranchers running free-range cattle. There were two small townships, Spanish Buenos Aires on the right bank, Portuguese Sacramento on the left. South of Buenos Aires lay a thousand miles of wild Indian country, unexplored by Europeans. The river, however, was of great importance, in a negative sense: it was a back door to Upper Peru, a door which the Spanish government wished to keep firmly closed and guarded. Some Brazilians, as smuggling middlemen, wished to keep the door open; and the Portuguese authorities wished to maintain their claim to a large area of good cattle country.
For these reasons, the left bank of the Rio was the scene of repeated clashes between Spanish and Portuguese local forces in the later seventeenth century and through much of the eighteenth. Montevideo, the first formal Spanish settlement on the Banda Oriental, was founded in 1729. Eventually, after much bickering and some actual fighting, a boundary treaty was to be agreed in 1751, based partly on actual possession, partly on geographical convenience; in the outcome, the territory now known as Uruguay was to be colonised by Spaniards, not by Portuguese. Inland, the boundary at the beginning of the eighteenth century was even more uncertain. Wherever it was, it ran through unmapped bush, and the Spanish government rightly suspected that slave-hunting bandeiras from Sao Paulo were ranging the forest, raiding Jesuit mission villages and kidnapping Indians, far to the west of the Tordesillas line. These encroachments upon the Spanish Jesuit 'reductions' were eventually to be recognised by the 1751 treaty, which was to give Portuguese America approximately the boundaries which Brazil has today.
Trade and dominion : Parry Pp29-30
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dorincard
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What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Dec 19, 2023 14:09:39 GMT
I am posting this thread in my maximaphily group, inviting my 3,000+ peeps to post maxicards with ships. Some of them should then visit this thread/forum. Unlike many Admins online, I don't freak out about "external links". Who am I to restrict your net surfing, in this day and age? Go surf, then come back anytime you like, if you like. I hope you like. Or, if you NEVER come back to my sites, then I could secretly christen you "(RID)DANCES With Wolves". It could cost(ner) my sites, for visitors count. Tough luck for me, but at least I respected your freedom of action. You're welcome! Previous "ship posts" in my maximaphily group: www.facebook.com/search_results/?q=Ship |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Dec 20, 2023 8:09:49 GMT
Spanish Trade Galleons
Operating Manila to Acupulco (Gold, Silk, Spices. Porcelain (Macau) )
Cost to build = 2000 Trees (Life expectancy circa 10 years)
Spanish (Warship) Galleon (No trade Galleon images exist AFAIK)  Spaniards were the only Europeans who regularly crossed the Pacific:
one or two big ships each year traversed, in thirsty scorbutic squalor, (Scurvy) the immensity of open water between Acapulco and Manila.
The route which these ships followed - the route forced upon them by the prevailing winds - took them clear of any land. They passed within a few hundred miles of the coast of Japan eastbound, but never called there; the policy of isolation, enforced by the Toka-gawa Shoguns, (preventing Christianity) had indeed for more than half a century closed Japanese harbours to most foreign shipping, and Europeans knew little of the geography of Japan. Formosa was still further off the galleons' track, and had in any event been virtually forbidden to most Europeans since the Ch'ing conquest.5 As for the Hawaiian group, the galleons passed south of it westbound, north of it east-bound. So far as^ is known the islands had never been sighted by Europeans.
North of the route of the eastbound galleons was a vast area of ignorance. The Pacific coast of North America, north of Lower California, was almost unknown, and the longitudinal extent of the continent was the subject of wild and widely varying guesses. The Pacific coast of northern Asia similarly: Russian expeditions, coming overland, reached Kamchatka and began the conquest of the peninsula only at the very end of the seventeenth century. No one knew whether the Pacific, like the Indian Ocean, was landlocked in the north; or whether, like the Atlantic, it ran into a barrier of islands and pack ice; or whether there existed, between Asia and America, a stretch of open water, which might give access to a passage round or through North America
Trade and Dominion Parry pp319
Voyage of 1755
Manila-Accapulco galleon trade route, showing onward route to Spain
In 1755, the Santísima Trinidad, steered by French pilot Antoine Lemaire de Boucourt, made a bad voyage from Manila to Acapulco which lasted 221 days and is said to be the third longest in the history of the line; it started on 23d of July, 1755, with 435 persons on board, of whom 74 died on the way, by tabardillo, a kind of typhus, and/or by lack of water (rainfall). Among the victims were former Governor General of the Philippines Marquis Ovando and his young son, who was only eight days old. The voyage ended in Acapulco, after a long stop in San José del Cabo, (Baja California Sur) on 27 February 1756.
Wiki
The might of the then Spanish Empire, (In Yellow) showing the Tordesillas demarcation line
 The Westerly Trade Winds, which had the flota miss the mid Pacific Islands
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 20, 2023 23:12:43 GMT
A souvenir sheet issued by the Solomon Islands in 2015 on the theme of tall ships:  |
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Dec 21, 2023 1:28:05 GMT
A souvenir sheet issued by the Solomon Islands in 2015 on the theme of tall ships:
It raises in me, one of those silly things in life,
one that has no explanation.
The homophone "bark" when I see it addressed to a sailing ship, is like fingernails across a blackboard.
It is only a "BARQUE"
Encyclopedia Britanica proves me wrong, but does not ease the pain.  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 21, 2023 22:54:40 GMT
Another pair from a set of four Tanzanian stamps issued in 1990, on the topic of marine transport, showing canoes:  |
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