BEST STAMPS with LIGHTHOUSES - Year 2016

Hello Friends:

This is the top 10 of stamps with lighthouses of this blog for the year 2016. Thanks to all of you that sended your opinions and helped to build this list.

1st Place CHINA - October 28 Unexpected and beautiful. The stamps were the first images of some of these brand new lighthouses builded in the South China Sea.

2nd Place LATVIA - October 07 Great design. A lot of information and images in a tiny space of one stamp.

3rd Place SOUTH KOREA - August 25 Colourful design helped by a marvelous selection of lighthouses.

4  GERMANY July 07	Reinhard Scheiblich (photos) at his best. Specially Kampen, Even the cows combine with the lighthouse! Click Here for a look at Scheiblich and his work.
5 GUERNSEY May 25	Big waves and lighthouses, a combination that always results in a great view.
6  NETHERLANDS February 01 and May 23	Excellent year for us thanks to the serie "Mooi Nederland". Several lighthouses with a very good stylistic interpretation
7 NORWAY October 01	Sober but nice design for this serie that in 2017 will take a break.
8 SAINT PIERRE ET  MIQUELON October 07	I have a predilection for the gravure. So here it is the work of Elsa Catelin for the SPM stamp of Pointe-Plate
9 JERSEY November 4	Great photos of Noirmont and La Corbiere among the winter stamps of this year
10 IRELAND October 06	Disappointing design of the stamps of this highly anticipated set. This issue reaches the Number 10 only helped by a good design of the booklet and some great photos in the panes of it.

I wish you all a Happy New Year and that 2017 be better than 2016. 

We keep in touch

Carlos

CUBA - 2016

Updated with Images and Info

GENERAL INFO:
Code: CUB-2016-01
Release Date: August 13, 2016  
Postal Authority: Empresa de Correos de Cuba - ECC
Title: National Park "Desembarco del Granma"
Format:  Serie of 4 stamps 
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Stamp 1 of 4

Currency: Cuban Peso - CUP

Face Value: 65 (CUP)

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Lighthouse: Cabo Cruz
ALL: J-5054
Location: Granma Province. South West point of Cuba


Thanks Jaap for the alert
Gracias Javier for the info

ISLE OF MAN - 2017

Updated with Images and Info

GENERAL INFO:
Code: IOM-2017-01
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Postal Authority: Oik Postagh Ellan Vannin
Title: The Hearts of Ellan Vannin
Format:  Serie of 6 stamps 
Presentation:  
-Sheets of 24 stamps (Onchan-Ramsey-Port St.Mary and Port Erin)
-Sheets of 10 stamps (Peel and Castletown - Europa issue)
Design: Adam Berry
Printing Process:  Offset Lithography in 4 Colours
Paper:  110 gms
Gum:  PVA
Printer: Cartor
Quantity:

Stamp 1 of 6

This stamp depicts 2 lights of Peel Harbour.  I was sure that the one of the left was Peel PierHead.  But the other one, at the right, was difficult to confirm because the images were poor. Today I received a better image of the stamp that cleared my doubts. A little explanation:

Take a look at this photo of the lighthouses situation in Peel Harbour.  Click over the image for a bigger view. The photo was taken by me and I was standing exactly opposite of the point of view of the stamp. 

That lighthouse at the right of the stamp (left of this image) could be Peel Castle Jetty or Peel Breakwater, depending of where the designer put his point of view. The poor images didn´t help because it wasn´t clear if the lighthouse was white with a black base or was white and green in horizontal bands.  

Well, this is the lighthouse at the right of the stamp:

PEEL CASTLE JETTY

Face Value: Permanent Value - 1st

Service: 

Dimensions: 28 x 42

Perforation: 

Lighthouses: 
-Peel Castle Jetty - A 4732
-Peel PierHead - A 4730
Location: Peel - West of Isle of Man

Better view of Peel PierHead in the Full Sheet of Peel Stamp

Feliz Navidad!  Merry Christmas!  Take it easy with the food and drinks.  Carlos

DOUBTFUL - Sierra Leone 2016 (II)

Code: SLE-2016-02
Release Date:  October 28, 2016
Title: 150th Anniv of the Great Tea Race
Format: Minisheet of 4 stamps and Block with 1 stamp

DOUBTFUL - Mozambique 2016 (III)

Code: MOZ-2016-03
Release Date: July 10, 2016
Title: Sea Shells
Format: Minisheet of 4 stamps and Block with 1 stamp

Best Stamps of 2016

Hello Friends:

Closing the 2016... it is time to review the year and try to recognize the best stamps with lighthouses. The last week of the year I´ll publish the top 10.  

Let me know your opinion.  Send me your selection from the 10 to the 1, to my mail:

cmsilvano@arnet.com.ar

Thanks and we keep in touch.

Carlos

DOUBTFUL - Central African Republic 2016 (II)

Code: CAF-2016-02

Release Date: November 21, 2016

Title: Dolphins

Format: Minisheet of 4 stamps and Block with 1 stamp

Thanks Klaus for the alert on this issue

SRI LANKA - 2016 (II)

Updated with new Images

No, this is not "that" issue of Lighthouses of Sri Lanka we are waiting for.

Images of the 3 Blocks added

GENERAL INFO:

Code: SRI-2016-02
Release Date: December 02, 2016
Authority: Department of Posts, Sri Lanka
Title: Unseen Sri Lanka
Format: Serie of 12 stamps and 3 Miniature Sheets
Presentation: Sheets of 12 (1 serie)
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Stamp 9 of 12

STAMP INFO:

Currency: Sri Lanka Rupee - LKR

Facial: 25,00 (LKR)

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Lighthouse: Queen´s Tower. Builded by the Dutchs during their occupation in Sri Lanka, this was a primitive form of lighthouse.

Wikipedia explanation: "... Fire was set at the bottom, wich creates a vacuum forcing air upwards and its light was passed through tower´s chimney-like tube to the top where sailors were able to see light from distance..."

Next, a better view of the tower in the illustration of the Block 2. We can see the door at the base of the tower, where the fire was lit.

Location: Delft (Neduntheevu) Island. North West of Sri Lanka

Stamp 11 of 12

STAMP INFO:

Currency: Sri Lanka Rupee - LKR

Facial: 25,00 (LKR)

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Lighthouse: Mannar Island

ALL: F-0884

Location: North of Mannar (Talaimannar) Island. North of Sri Lanka

Thanks Ravi, from Sri Lanka for the images