Monday, June 20, 2011

DOUBTFUL - St. Thomas & Prince 2010

Two blocks dedicated to the National Museum of ST&P.  One with the flag and the other with the national seal.  Both blocks in the background shows the fortress of Sao Sebastiao and the lighthouse.  The National Museum is in this building.






Sunday, June 5, 2011

20100802 - Tajikistan



Release Date: August 02, 2010
Stamp Authority: Markazi Marka
Title: Animals - Philatelic Exhibitions
Format: Minisheet with 4 valued stamps  + 2 complements
Dimensions (mm): 116 x 114
Currency: Somoni ( TJS )
Printing Process: Offset


One of the complements:

Dimensions (mm): 28 x 40
Lighthouse: Torre de Belem (Portugal)


RELATED MATERIAL:

Imperforated Minisheet

Thursday, June 2, 2011

20110330 - DPR Korea



Release Date: March 30, 2011
Philatelic authority: The State Stamp Bureau of DPRK
Title: The international Year of Volunteers 2011
Format: Block

Where is the Lighthouse?: Bottom Right of the block, outside of the valued stamps,  we can see the Chamae Do or Jamaedo Lighthouse.


This is a better look of the lighthouse in one of the blocks from the mega issue in 2009.




Thanks to Laurent and thanks to Jaap for the alert of this issue.