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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 24, 2018 12:42:59 GMT
Motivated by dgdecker sending me some of these, let's start a thread featuring some of the stamps from the various international organizations headquartered in Switzerland. First up, since those are the ones I received today, the 1962 issue for the UN philatelic museum:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 24, 2018 12:56:14 GMT
Two issues from the World Intellectual Property Organization in 1982:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 24, 2018 13:01:36 GMT
The 1958 series for the International Bureau for Education:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 24, 2018 13:10:18 GMT
The 1958 series for the International Telecommunications Union:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 24, 2018 13:17:04 GMT
The 1957 Universal Postal Union issue:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 24, 2018 14:03:12 GMT
The 1956 issue for the World Meteorological Organization:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 24, 2018 14:16:07 GMT
The 1957 issue for the World Health Organization, and the 1962 overprinted issue for the fight against malaria:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 24, 2018 14:29:47 GMT
The 1948-50 issue for the World Health Organization, using three definitive series from Switzerland with an "Organisation Mondiale de la Santé" overprint:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 24, 2018 14:39:54 GMT
Two World Health Organization covers, mailed from Geneva to Montréal, featuring the Michel#38 stamp from 1975. I'm showing both for the two different cancellations.  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 24, 2018 14:46:39 GMT
The 1995 World Health Organization issue, complement to the series from which the stamps on the covers above emanate:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 24, 2018 14:54:43 GMT
The International Labour Office issues from 1950, again using the contemporaneous Swiss definitive series with an overprint reading "Bureau International du Travail":  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 24, 2018 15:01:34 GMT
The 1956 International Labour Office issue:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 24, 2018 15:10:23 GMT
An issue for the International Labour Office from 1975, a little worse for wear, unfortunately:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 24, 2018 15:15:22 GMT
Swiss forerunners to the Geneva United Nations Postal Administration, from 1955:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 24, 2018 15:20:38 GMT
Two of the above were re-issued with an "Année Mondiale du Réfugié 1959 1960" overprint for the World Refugee Year:  |
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Post by dgdecker on Dec 24, 2018 17:46:29 GMT
Thanks for starting this thread. No need for me to post my images as they would duplicate what you have displayed. I still have a few gaps in collection . I will keep acquiring as long as price is reasonable.
David
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Post by hrdoktorx on Apr 13, 2019 19:44:56 GMT
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Post by hrdoktorx on Apr 13, 2019 20:01:35 GMT
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Post by hrdoktorx on Apr 13, 2019 20:13:24 GMT
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Post by bobstew617 on May 22, 2020 14:32:59 GMT
This definitely an area that has a lot more stamps than one thinks going into it. I have MANY holes to fill in this "officials" section.
What drives me a bit nuts is when I am searching for Swiss stamps on line, these come up first because of the O (number, O) in front.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Apr 26, 2023 15:02:52 GMT
My latest acquisition (by auction, as it is in the air these days), is those two sets of Société des Nations overprinted Swiss stamps. The 1922 set of issues for the Bureau International du Travail (International Labor Office):  and the 1932 Disarmement Conference set:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 30, 2023 18:03:57 GMT
An exciting auction win this month, this (almost complete) set of the 1944 International Labour Office service stamps:  The reason the set is not complete is, as many of you will have already noticed, that the 25c and 30c issues are actually from the 1937 set. But I knew that when I bid on the lot. And I didn't have any from that set yet either, anyway, so still a win.  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 25, 2023 10:41:40 GMT
At the stamp show last week, I got a big lot of Swiss official stamps for international organizations. Here are the UN Geneva forerunners from 1959 and 1960:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 26, 2023 8:51:51 GMT
The International Labor Bureau issues from 1960:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 28, 2023 19:48:45 GMT
The three service stamps issued in 1960 for the World Meteorological Organization:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 29, 2023 6:53:18 GMT
The three service stamps issued by Switzerland in 1960 for the Universal Postal Union:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 30, 2023 5:57:45 GMT
The three service stamps issued by Switzerland in 1960 for the World Health Organization:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 30, 2023 18:50:27 GMT
The three 1960 service issues from Switzerland for use by the International Telecommunications Union:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 1, 2023 6:26:04 GMT
The three International Education Bureau service issues from Switzerland in 1960:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 2, 2023 9:14:38 GMT
The last two forerunners preceding the United Nations Geneva Postal Administration are these service stamps from Switzerland issued on the occasion of the UNCSAT conference in 1963:  |
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