JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Feb 12, 2020 19:16:29 GMT
A recent page for my "Oranges" collection:Why Paraguay would include an orange tree with an unusually round canopy on a low-value airmail stamp printed in 4 colors over 5 years, 1930 - 1935, (likely a rate make-up value) is a puzzle. This issue and several others from these years are burdened with numerous imperforate and part-perforate "errors."
I have found little online about the issue, if anyone can add information about these stamps, that would be great.
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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 Feb 13, 2020 19:01:27 GMT
It is possibly no orange-tree but an Apepu-tree. Apepu is a bitter-orange - cattle love the fruits and the leaves -,what was planted in Paraguay in big numbers.On my ground there were probably a hundred Apepu-trees. I was told that the leaves and the flowers (?) were harvested for the perfume-industry,long ago.That would explain the rounded shape of the tree on the stamps.Today there is no longer any use for Apepu and I guess in a few decades they will have vanished.
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JeffS
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What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Feb 13, 2020 23:45:25 GMT
Thank you, Salentin.
That certainly makes sense since the stamp design also includes Yerba mate. Both items are stated to have medicinal qualities.
If it is an Apepu tree - a bitter orange - that would make it the mother of all modern oranges, originally grown in India and China (depending on the source)
I will go with that with my next revision and let someone suggest otherwise.
Danke!
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,604
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Apr 2, 2020 18:24:56 GMT
Revised and hopefully now "complete" revision with addition of a plate proof  |
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renden
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What I collect: World W collector with ++ interests in BNA (Canada etc) and USA
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Post by renden on Apr 2, 2020 18:29:40 GMT
Since all of my Paraguay collection are now in the hands (or will be) of coastwatcher - I have less interest in tha Country, except your very nice "posts", JeffS - keep them coming  René |
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JeffS
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Posts: 2,604
What I collect: Oranges Philately, US Slogan Cancels, Cape of Good Hope Triangulars, and Texas poster stamps and cinderellas
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Post by JeffS on Apr 2, 2020 20:24:01 GMT
renden - thank you for taking the time to say so. JeffS
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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 May 5, 2020 16:31:55 GMT
I'm afraid that it isn't true that there's no use for Seville (or bitter) oranges fruit. They're used to prepare bitter Orange mermelade/jam, so popular in UK and elsewhere.
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