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Post by david on Dec 28, 2022 19:50:58 GMT
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 16, 2023 22:50:45 GMT
Two souvenir sheets issued by Niger in 1999 and showing various astronauts, part of a large set reviewing the 20 th century:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 22, 2023 9:41:53 GMT
Souvenir sheet issued by the Maldives in honour of the Apollo program:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 23, 2023 18:37:50 GMT
Souvenir sheet issued by Paraguay in 1974 for the UPU centennial and showing the solar system pre-copernician model with epicycles:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 24, 2023 6:53:38 GMT
Souvenir sheet issued by Grenada to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the first Moon landing:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 15, 2023 19:51:29 GMT
I showed previously on this thread the accompanying set of stamps for this Montserrat souvenir sheet issued on the occasion of the total solar eclipse in February 1998, now they are together in my album!  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 14, 2023 20:58:54 GMT
Block from Granada celebrating 50 years since Yuri Gagarin's maiden space flight:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 25, 2023 13:11:39 GMT
John Glenn honored on this souvenir sheet from Chad in 1998 for his return to space:  |
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Post by swvl on May 1, 2023 22:34:21 GMT
Last year, I had the idea of making an event cover to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo XVII mission — humankind's last lunar visit to date. In early December, I mailed my cover off to the post office at Cape Canaveral, FL, with a polite request for a Dec. 19 postmark (the date on which the mission formally ended, along with the Apollo program). I waited five months, eventually assuming the cover had been lost. But here it is!  The postmaster put a Cape Canaveral postmark on the SASE it came back in, too, which shows that this cover wasn't serviced til this April. I love when a postmark request takes a long time to make its way back to me. What a fun surprise!  |
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Post by brookbam on May 2, 2023 23:31:05 GMT
Last year, I had the idea of making an event cover to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo XVII mission — humankind's last lunar visit to date. In early December, I mailed my cover off to the post office at Cape Canaveral, FL, with a polite request for a Dec. 19 postmark (the date on which the mission formally ended, along with the Apollo program). I waited five months, eventually assuming the cover had been lost. But here it is! The postmaster put a Cape Canaveral postmark on the SASE it came back in, too, which shows that this cover wasn't serviced til this April. I love when a postmark request takes a long time to make its way back to me. What a fun surprise! I've really enjoyed these hand drawn FDCs you've been posting swvlbrookbam
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Post by swvl on May 3, 2023 0:14:02 GMT
Thanks brookbam! Making my own covers is a very rewarding part of the hobby for me. I’m always happy when people enjoy seeing them. |
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Post by brookbam on May 3, 2023 17:03:18 GMT
What a great album! I'm starting a space topical collection of worldwide but I downloaded that album and I think I'm going to fill it up with stamps! Especially since it is all US. And I did not realize that the US had that many space related stamps. Thanks for posting that! brookbam
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 20, 2023 20:04:17 GMT
Paraguay souvenir sheet, MiNr. Block 146, from 1970, showing the Apollo XIII crew:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 21, 2023 18:07:51 GMT
Paraguay souvenir sheet, MiNr. Block 145 from 1970, showing Wernher von Braun and several of his rocket designs:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 22, 2023 21:34:36 GMT
Paraguay souvenir sheet, MiNr. Block 146, from 1970, showing a medal featuring busts of the Apollo XI crew members:  |
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Post by eggdog on Jun 22, 2023 22:22:33 GMT
That Paraguayan souvenir sheet is stranger than strange. The slogan - "Here Earth First Oon", etc. - is obscured by the medal (which may have been decoupaged onto the souvenir sheet, or more likely printed using some opaque ink or other substance). The placement of that medal, combined with the two rings above it, gives the appearance of a tribute to Mickey Mouse. And if that isn't bad enough, below Buzz Aldrin's signature (and BTW, that likeness of Aldrin looks like a death mask, not that the other two are exactly prizes) a printed text reads "Centenario de la Peopeya Nacional de 1864-1870". That "national epic" was Paraguay's war with Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil - yeah, more than half of the South American continent, all at the same time. As you can imagine, by the time it was over there weren't many people left in Paraguay, and I'm not quite sure why the combatants didn't just split the land up among themselves. Of all the themes to combine with a triumph of humanity like the lunar landing, I can't think of many that are less appropriate. The mouse ears encircle a world map whose relevance to these themes is unclear to me. And it looks like "Primer Descenso Humano en la Luna" might be yet another overprint; it overlaps a bit with Richard Nixon's signature. I could be wrong about that. But I'm not gonna beat myself up over it if I am, because whoever designed this stamp was wrong about almost everything!(Apologia: hrdoktorx, I'm not trying to insult or offend you because you posted this souvenir sheet. In fact, I'm glad you did because it's fascinating. There are a lot of bad space thematics around, some from the Trucial States, a few from newly constituted African republics. This one is complicated compared to ordinary badly-made space thematics: complicated enough to have gotten me going off on a rampage, obviously. I hope it's OK.) |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 23, 2023 20:26:59 GMT
New set of stamps and accompanying souvenir sheet issued by Australia on theme of solar eclipses:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 24, 2023 5:58:24 GMT
Paraguay souvenir sheet, MiNr. Block 138, from 1970, showing the Moon landing of the Apollo XII mission:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 25, 2023 6:24:53 GMT
Paraguay souvenir sheet, MiNr. Block 144, from 1970, showing a map of the location of the planned Moon landings of the Apollo missions:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jul 11, 2023 19:58:29 GMT
Souvenir sheet issued by Paraguay honouring astronomer Johannes Kepler in 1971, and showing a moonscape and planetary trajectories:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jul 19, 2023 15:07:17 GMT
Gutter pair issued by the Aland islands in 2009, as part of the astronomy Europa theme, showing the Big Dipper constellation with the stars perforated out of the stamps:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jul 20, 2023 6:40:10 GMT
New stamp sheet issued by the Netherlands on the theme of "Trip to the Moon":  |
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Post by salentin on Jul 21, 2023 12:17:12 GMT
25th anniversary of the first human space-flight.
Issued April 12th,1986.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Aug 11, 2023 20:26:58 GMT
New issue from French Andorra, showing the "tears of St. Lawrence". All Canadians of course know that St. Lawrence is celebrated on August 10 th, the day Jacques Cartier entered the river for the first time, hence its name. So the tears of St. Lawrence here refer to the Perseid meteor showers that occur this time of year.  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 1, 2023 6:16:00 GMT
New stamp issued by Greenland on the occasion of the Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen's mission to the International Space Station:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 6, 2023 19:50:43 GMT
Set of five stamps issued by New Zealand in 2019 honouring some home-grown space pioneers:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 7, 2023 17:59:06 GMT
Souvenir sheet from the Marshall Islands celebrating the 50 th anniversary of the Moon Landing:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 8, 2023 5:49:35 GMT
FDC of a souvenir sheet from Paraguay honouring rocket scientist Friedrich Schmiedl, issued in 1984:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 29, 2023 9:19:19 GMT
Souvenir sheet issued by Papua New Guinea on the occasion of the 50 th anniversary of the first Moon landing:  |
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Post by Linda on Sept 29, 2023 12:00:27 GMT
Canada Post issued in 2019 a pair of Apollo 11 stamps celebrating the first moon landing and Canadian contributions to the mission:  |
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