20140429 - BRAZIL

And this is the first stamp issue of the World Cup Brazil 2014 with lighthouses

Code: BRA-2014-01
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Postal Authority: Brasil Correios
Title: The art of Brazilian Football
Format: Serie of 12 stamps
Sheets of: 24 stamps (2 series)
Currency: Permanent Value
Facial: 1er Porte Carta Comercial  (Standard Local Letter up to 20g)

Lighthouse:  Santo Antonio da Barra  in one of the stamps and on border of sheet too.

 

 

 

 

This fortress is located in the city of Salvador da Bahía.  6 matches of the World Cup will be played in this city and the stadium is about 5 kilometers of this lighthouse. These are the matches:

June 13: Spain - Netherlands
June 16: Germany - Portugal
June 20: Switzerland - France
June 25: Bosnia and Herzegovina - Iran
2 other matches in 8th and 4th.

Are any of you attending to these games?  Please send a postcard.

DOUBTFUL - Central African Republic 2013

Code: CAF-2013-02
Date: August 30, 2013
Title: Lighthouses
Format: Minisheet of 4 stamps and Block with 1 stamp

DOUBTFUL - Niger 2013

 

Code: NIG-2013-04

Date: December 20, 2013

Title: Lighthouses

Format: Minisheet of 4 stamps and Block with 1 stamp

 

 

 

20130613 - JAMAICA

 

Hello Friends:

 

New family members of the Jamaican Lighthouses are among us. And this is so for almost a year. 

On June 13 of 2013 a second reprint of these stamps was released.  Like the first reprint, the best way (and I believe that it is the only way) to identify this new set of 4 stamps is the year printed at the bottom of the stamp.

Lets take a look at it...

 

$ 20 Negril Point	$ 50 Morant Point
$ 60 Lover´s Leap	$ 200 Galina

And next, the three versions of each stamps, together to compare.  Click over the images to get a better definition.

 

Click HERE to see the original post of the 2011 issue.


Thank you very much to Angel Gonzalez  (www.afng.org) for the alert on these new stamps.

20140428 - FAROE ISLANDS

*** Images and Information Added***

 

Cover of the Booklet with a fantastic view of Stóra Dimun
 

 

 

Code: FAR-2014-01
Release Date: April 28, 2014

Postal Authority: Posta Faroe Islands

Title: Faroese Lighthouses
Format: Serie of 3 stamps
Booklet: Sheet of 2 series
Photos: Erik Christensen, Ólavur Fredriksen, and Finleif Mortensen
Stamp Dimensions (mm): 40 x 30
Printing Process: Offset
Printed by: OeSd, Austria
Currency: Danmark Krona - DKK

14.50 KR (DKK)
Service: Europa and Nordic Countries Small A-Letters up to 50g
Lighthouse: Akraberg - ALL L4342

15.50 KR (DKK)
Service: Europa and Nordic Countries Medium A-Letters up to 50g
Lighthouse: Stóra Dimun - ALL L4368

17 KR (DKK)
Service: Europa and Nordic Countries Large A-Letters up to 50g
Lighthouse: Toftir - ALL  L4406

Thanks Klaus for the stamps images

DOUBTFUL - Solomon Islands 2013

Code: SOL-2013-02
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Title: Eugène Boudin
Format: Minisheet of 4 stamps and Block with 1 stamp
Lighthouse: Honfleur (Hospital Lighthouse)

20140421 - MEXICO

 

Code: MEX-2014-02

Release Date: April 21, 2014

Postal Authority: Correos de Mexico

Title: Centenary of the Heroics Deeds in Veracruz 1914

Format: Serie of 6 stamps issued in Block

Design: Sergio Barranca Rábago

Paper: Coated  110 gms/m2

Currency: Mexican Peso (MXN)

 

Lighthouse: Veracruz (Venustiano Carranza. ex J-4298)

 

Thanks Klaus for the alert on this issue.

Opening Soon...

Hello Friends:

Just arrived.  Unpack and coming back to the routine.  New posts in a few days.  We have new material in doubtful issues,  also some news from Jamaica,   and material from Brazil for the end of the month.    

 

But first,  let me share with you some photos from a great trip to Isle of Man.  Really a wonderfull experience. 

Visit to the ancient lighthouses in Calf of Man

Boat trip to Chicken Rock

 

Laxey Harbour

Port Erin

 

More images of these lighthouses and other lighthouses not shown here,  in my tourism blog:

www.turismoyfaros.blogspot.com (in spanish).

 

 

 

Closed for Vacations

 

Hello friends and readers of this blog.    It´s that time of the year for me... Deserved or not, but it is vacations time.   No new entries until April 21.   See you then.

Carlos

 

20140401 - MEXICO

 

Code: MEX-2014-01

Release Date: April 01, 2014

Postal Authority: Correos de Mexico

Title: 40 Anniversary of FONATUR (National Fund for Tourism Development)

Format: 1 stamp

Design: Luis H. Quezada Villalpando

Paper: Coated - 110g/m2

Printing Process: Offset 4 colours

Printed by: Talleres de Impresión de Estampillas y Valores

Quantity: 200.000 stamps

Currency: Mexican Peso - MXN
Facial: $ 7.oo
Service: Local Standard Letter up to 20g

Lighthouse: Punta Cancún  (J-4436.5)

 

 

 

 

 

DOUBTFUL - Mozambique 2013

Two more "late releases" from 2013.  These stamps are not listed in the 2013 PDF File. I will do a new version of that file including these stamps by mid year, unless something important appears.

 

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Code: MOZ-2013-03
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Title: Lighthouses and Shells
Format: Minisheet of 4 stamps and Block with 1 stamp

 

 

 

 

Thanks Klaus for the alert

DOUBTFUL - Mozambique 2013

Code: MOZ-2013-02
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Title: Post Impressionists
Format: Minisheet of 4 stamps and Block with 1 stamp

And here we go again...  

The Paul Signac´s painting,  "Young Women of Provence at the Well", showing a stylized version of the Saint-Tropez Jetty Head Light.

Fourth stamp of 2013 with this painting (Palau, Solomon, Togo and now Mozambique). Apparently the guy who "designs" these blocks is a fan of the women of Provence.

Thanks Jaap for the alert.

DOUBTFUL - Niger 2013

Almost a month without a post.   Nothing new or important happening these days.  Only these 3 doubtful releases of 2013.  These stamps are not listed in the 2013 PDF File.  I will do a new version of that file including these stamps by mid year, unless something important appears.

 

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Code: NIG-2013-03

Date: September 30, 2013

Title: Whales

Format: Minisheet of 4 stamps and Block with 1 stamp

 

 

Thanks Jaap for the alert on this issue



DOUBTFUL - Tchad 2013

 

 

 

Code: TCH-2013-02

Release Date: 2013

Title: Sailboats

Format: 2 Minisheets of 4 stamps each.  One of them with a lighthouse on border

DOUBTFUL - Guinea (Republic) 2013

Code: GUI-2013-03
Date: September 13, 2013
Title: Dolphins and Lighthouses
Format: Minisheet of 3 stamps and Block with 1 stamp

20140417 - Japan

More Material from Japan.

In this case, It´s new...

 

 

 

 

Code: JAP-2014-01

Release Date: April 17, 2014

Postal Authority: Japan Post

Title:  60th Anniversary of Enforcement of the Local Autonomy Law - EHIME Prefecture

Format: Minisheet with 5 stamps

Dimensions (mm): 93.5 x 175

Stamp Dimensions (mm): 33,5 x 28

Designer: Satoshi Maruyama (stamp designer)

Lighthouse Photo: Ikata

Printing Process: Gravure 6 colours

Quantity: 1.000.000 Minisheets

Currency: Yen (JPY)

 

 Stamp N. 5

 

82 (JPY)
Service: Local Standard Letter up to 25g

Lighthouse: Sada Misaki   ALL M-5424

 



20101001 - Japan

** NEW FIND from 2010 **

 

 

Hello friends:

 

Do you remember this minisheet from Japan 2010? 

 

 

 

This issue was already posted.  But  I only listed the last stamp of the sequence showing "E Saki" lighthouse (circle), as a lighthouse stamp.

 

This morning, George from Canada, send to me a mail, informing about another lighthouse in this minisheet.  And yes,  there is another lighthouse. Look at the stamp beside the E saki.

 

This stamp show the "Naruto Whirlpools",   under the bridge between Naruto and Awaji Island  (Onaruto Bridge). That white tower on the hill, next to the bridge is Mago Saki Lighthouse.

Mago Saki Lighthouse  -  ALL  M 5551.5

 

 



 

 

Thank you very much George Louit (Argentinian living in Canada), for this new discovery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

***  Original Post from 2010 ***

 

 

 

Release Date: October 01 - 2010

Postal Authority: JP Post

Title: Travel Scene Series (Vol 10). Roads crossing the Seto Inland Sea (Vol.3) 

Format: Block with 10 stamps

Dimensions (mm): 140 x 213

Designer: Maruyama Satoru

Printing Process: Offset 5 Colours

Quantity: 1200000 Blocks

Stamp of our interest: (Bottom - right)

Facial: 80 (yen - JPY)

Dimensions (mm): 28x36

Lighthouse: E saki (Awaji Island)

Thanks to Jaap for this alert.

QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE - 2006 to 2013

 

 

 

 

 

Hello:

 

3 new years have been added to the Quick Reference List.  This version is between the years 2006 and 2013.  All the stamps with lighthouses of the last 8 years are listed in this file.

There are no images in this file, but all the stamps have links to the blog LHSTAMP; and there you will find more technical information and images of the stamps.

 

You can downloaded from here:

Quick Reference Guide 2006-2013

 

 

It´s a free hosting service. If you have any problem to download the file from there, you can send me a mail and I will send you a copy. Just put in the subjet "Qlist". No need to write something else.

We keep in touch

Carlos.