What Is Not On A Stamp?

Good finds! The first one is definitely a fountain pen of the sort I was thinking of. Believe it or not, I am so old that in primary school we used nib n' ink pens as shown in the second stamp!

I probably 'just' missed out on the 'quill' era!

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Challenge: A stamp showing the Flag of Tristan da Cunha.

I still have a couple of fountain pens in my desk. I don't know how many bother with them much anymore. One of them is a more modern fountain pen from the 1970's or 1980's, I believe, that uses an extra slim ink cartridge that has apparently been discontinued as no stationery store sells them anymore. I have a traditional fountain pen circa 1950 that I would occasionally use, however, in going to my local stationery store, the price of a bottle of ink is absolutely outrageous ... almost $10 a bottle! Obviously, because of this, I don't use either of them very much anymore.

Sorry this is not very clear, but I think it is right...



Steve

Okay, which flags do you want me to post? I found these on the internet, as I don't collect stamps from volcanic islands with a population of less than 300:

Challenge: a stamp showing a glass...half full or half empty, depending on your mood for the day!

:)

PS $10 for a bottle of ink is outrageous! Maybe I should put my old one on ebay, even though it's half full ;)


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Perf14
I have one but the guess just arrive. Later on!

I have one that would be a challenge...an internal parasite like a tapeworm. Gross, yes - but doubt they have been immortalized on a stamp until proven otherwise.

I won't say external parasites, because I know mosquitoes are on plenty of stamps and Mozambique did come out with a set of ticks on stamps. One way to keep tourists at bay.

Perf14
Quiet escape from the guest
Isn't that close to it!

While it depicts a mosquito, it also shows internal parasites, I believe, as it relates to malaria:

I think those are mosquito larvae.

Yes I agree those are the larvae of the mosquito in some brownish water. The internal stage of the parasite is the plasmodium :

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but I have not found it on a stamp yet

:(

Excellent half -full glass, timbres667!

But here is a hookworm on a stamp showing the internal stage of the parasite...dogs are humans too lol

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:)

Nice jobs on the flags, everyone!
KS