Happy New Year!!!

Friends and Readers of this blog, I wish you all a great 2016. 

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Saludos!

Carlos.

DOUBTFUL - Mali 2015

 

 

 

 

Code: MAI-2015-01

Release Date: 2015

Title: Lighthouses

Format: Minisheet of 3 stamps and Block with 1 stamp

BEST STAMPS with LIGHTHOUSES - YEAR 2015

 

Hello:

And here are the results for this year.  I received 32 votes of what you think that were the best 10 issues in 2015.  Points were assigned according to the position, and the sum of all, returns us this list.   A surprise?  Yes,  I believe that the winner is a surprise.  I liked the stamp but I didn't think that could be so high.

 

Happy Holidays to all.

We keep in touch.

Carlos.

 

1st Place (289 points)   New Caledonia Click here to visit the post

2nd Place (280 points)   Norway Click here to visit the post

3rd Place (202 points)   Germany Click here to visit the post

4 -(195 points)	Morocco
5 -(183 points)	Jersey (Autumn)
6 -(150 points)	Australia
7 -(120 points)	Saint Pierre et Miquelon
8 -(118 points)	Canada
9 -(105 points)	Portugal
10(99 points)	Latvia

Time to Vote

Hello Friends:
 

End of the year and its time to put in a list, your opinions about the stamps with lighthouses of 2015.

Help me to create the top 10 of issues.  Your thoughts are welcome in my mail:
 

cmsilvano@arnet.com.ar

Please detail your top 10 picks, and also your name. Here below, a memory helper with the most popular of this year:

 

Aland	Aruba
Australia	Canada
Croatia	Estonia
Germany	Iceland
Italy	Jersey
Latvia	Macau
Morocco	New Caledonia
Norway	Poland
Portugal	Saint Pierre & Miquelon

 

 

The picks are not limited to this list. If you like a stamp that is not listed here, name it , no problem.

During the last week of december, we will know the winners.

We keep in touch.
Carlos


 

General Info: Old Toys from Madeira

All this year I was trying to find an item from the common issue Europa (Old Toys) with a lighthouse.  Well,  finally an Old Toy with a lighthouse.  
This coming from Madeira.   The 2015 year pack was published under the format of a booklet.  One of the sheets is the illustration of a popular vintage game called "letras moveis" (movable letters) by Damaso Carreiro.

The cover of the box is an illustration by an artist called Ary with a red lighthouse at the breakwater and maybe another one to confirm in the islet at the left. 

Cover of Booklet

 

Interior sheet

 

Sadly, there isn´t any stamp in the sheet.  It´s only illustrative.   But it is inside the booklet.  It deserves at least a mention here.

General Info: Previewing the 2016

Hello Friends:

 

The next year is in the horizon.  Lighthouse stamps for 2016 are starting to pop up.  This is a provisional list for what we know until now.  I will keep this issues in this list until end of December.  I do not want to mix the future issues of 2015 with the stamps of 2016.
 

 

New info added in Green

Date d/m/y	Country	Format
01/02/16	-Netherland	Blocks
14/03/16	-Macau	Block
07/07/16	-Germany	2 stamps
01/10/16	-Norway	2 stamps
07/10/16	-Latvia	1 stamp
07/10/16	-Saint Pierre et Miquelon	1 stamp
27/10/16	-Estonia	1 stamp
...	...	...

Update on ESTONIA:

The 2016 stamp programme reveals that the lighthouse serie will continue.  Great news provided by Klaus.

 

 

 

DOUBTFUL - Mozambique 2015

Code: MOZ-2015-02
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Title: Lighthouses
Format: Minisheet of 4 stamps and Block with 1 stamp


Thanks Jaap for the alert

20151204 - URUGUAY

 

 

 

Code:  URU-2015-03

Release Date: December 04, 2015 

 

Coming from:  Correo Uruguayo

Title:  Cruises 2015

Format:  Serie of 4 stamps

Sheets of: 8 stamps (2 series)

Design:  Daniel Pereyra (Architect)

Printing Method: 

Paper:

Gum:

Security:

Printed by: Sanfer SRL

Quantity:  15000 series

 

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Stamp 1 of 4
Currency:  UYU - Uruguayan Peso

Facial:  $ 20  (UYU)

Service: 

Dimensions (mm):  
Perf:
Lighthouse:  Cabo Polonio
All:  G-0662
Country: URUGUAY

   

  

General Info: Overprint from Ireland

 

In ocasion of the STAMPA 2016 (The Anual Irish Stamp Exhibition) an overprinted version of the Lusitania minisheet were available between the members of that organization (STAMPA).  This ítem is not available for the general public, and it is not commercialized by An-Post

 

STAMPA Website:   http://www.stampa.ie/

 

 

Thanks Jaap for the information

20150914 – CYPRUS

Code: CYP-2015-01

Release Date:  September 14, 2015

Coming from: Cyprus Post

Title: Cyprus Castles

Format: Serie of 4 stamps

Sheets of: 10 stamps

Design: 

Printing Method: 

Paper:

Gum:

Security:

Printed by:

Quantity: 

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Stamp 4 of 4 
Currency: Euro - EUR

Facial: 0.75 (EUR)

Service: 

Dimensions (mm): 
Perf:
Lighthouse: Ancient Lighthouse of Kyrenia (1886). Northwest Tower of the Fortress
All: 
Country:  Cyprus (Turkish)

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The pane of 10 stamps also depicts on the  border,  the bottom half of the Kyrenia East Mole.  And on the left, we have a view of the NW tower of the fortress.

We saw these two ancient lighthouses in the Europa issue of 2012 from Cyprus North.

 

 

 

 

DOUBTFUL - Niger 2015

Code: NIG-2015-04
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Title: The Lighthouses
Format:  A big sheet divisible in a Minisheet of 4 stamps and a Block with 1 stamp.

Don´t miss tomorrow the post with a "Half" lighthouse in the border of a sheet.

General Info: Cancels from Australia

Date: September 27, 2015

City: Wynnum (Brisbane, Queensland)

Lighthouse: North Reef (K-3014)

 

 

 

Date: Permanent Postmark

Location: Apollo Bay (Victoria)

Lighthouse: Cape Otway (K-2172)

 

 

Thanks Jaap for the information

DOUBTFUL - Tuvalu 2014

A new addition from the year 2014

Faux Lighthouse in Minisheet

Code: TUV-2014-01
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Title: Surfing
Format: Set of 4 stamps in minisheet

What you see at the right of the minisheet is a Lifeguard tower dressed like a lighthouse.   It is located in Miami Beach in the USA.

The new version of the 2014PDF file with this addition will appear in january together with the 2015 file.

Thanks Klaus for the alert on this issue

20151130 - ARUBA

Ending the year, Aruba surprise us with two issues. The more known lighthouses of the island are depicted, one each, in both releases.

 

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Code:  ARU-2015-02

Release Date: November 13, 2015 

 

Coming from:  Post Aruba

Title:  Tourism - Aruban Touristic Spot

Format:  Serie of 6 stamps

Sheets of:

Design:  Adolfo Valbuena

Printing Method: 

Paper:

Gum:

Security:

Printed by:

Quantity: 

 

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Stamp 1 of 6
Currency:  Aruban Florin - AWG

Facial:  250c (2.5 AWG)

Service: 

Dimensions (mm): 
Perf:

Lighthouse:  California  / Noordwestpunt
All:  J-6330
Country:  ARUBA

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More California in the FDC and the First Day Cancel