Wonderfully Odd-Shaped Hexagonal Stamps And Cancels

Collin, yes, I was imagining a collector trying to figure out the
4 arrows strike, if a stamp ever came off the cover.

Reminds me of a "devil" cancel from the US.

SV: that is an Octagonal stamp, no?

and to really confuse things, I think I have a stamp somewehere
of the "Three Stooges" and their "Three man Quartet"

The stars in the frame of this revenue, "Hexagrams" ?
any significance to the country of issue?

There are actually a couple of hexagons on some older Great Britain Queen Victoria stamps, a bit newer than than the above beautiful example.

Thanks for posting the link/pic 1847! It is amazing to see something that old in such pristine condition, like it would have been when in use.

Hexagram is correct Rod. The intersection of the equalateral triangles form a hexagon in the middle.

The Trinidad Tobago stamp has hexagrams on it perhaps because a lot of he populace is from indentured servants brought from India so some of them kept their Muslim or Hindu religion. Although the hexagram is also from Christianity and the Jewish faith also. My guess. Perhaps a unifying symbol for the people.

Interesting perspective Puzzler,
I had not considered that, thanks.

I may draw attention to CT1847's GB stamp,
on closer inspection, one can see the fine silk thread running through the stamp, as forgery protection.

Here is a complete scan of that Finland stamp I posted earlier..

Here's another irregular 6-sided "stamp" - just a cinderella which I came across while going through kiloware last night. The design makes it look like 3 labels, but it's really just a single label with fake perforations printed between the designs. A quick look around found this article about it (scroll down to Item #1):

http://alphabetilately.com/NTS.html

Ryan

Nice one Ryan,
and it looks like a die cut.

Snowflakes are always so beautiful to me. That is a great stamp/stamps.

Interesting cinderella too and followup story.

In case anyone hadn't seen the Saturn cloud feature (I hadn't) here is a pic from NASA'a Cassini probe.

This image was acquired on Oct. 29, 2006, from an average distance of 902,000 kilometers (560,400 miles) above the cloud tops of Saturn.


Link to NASA's pic and explanation of how the photo was taken:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/c...ia09188.html

Kind of 'wrong' colours but indeed an interesting pic to make a personalized stamp with (with NASA's permission).

The fellow who took those snowflake photos has his own website dealing with them - there are some fascinating photos there, as well as some more detail on the US snowflake stamps.

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/

Some personalized Austrian stamps using his photos have also been created.

Ryan

Thread with Belgium hexagonal telegraph stamps:
https://goscf.com/t/9775

A proposal in the works (seeking more funding) for a Green city with a brain in Portugal.

Hopefully Portugal will make stamps of it. (hint, hint, nudge, nudge). Or someone will make personalized stamps of it. Something to look out for for all us (me) hexagon shape collectors out there.

A firm called Living PlanIT is leading the effort, and aims to make PlanIT Valley a low-carbon city that also provides a European alternative to Silicon Valley.
From Popular Science http://www.popsci.com/technology/ar...ized-control



Also from New Scientist http://www.newscientist.com/article...ml?full=true
Great map of all hexagonal spaces and roads, woo hoo!

A better pic of the PlanIT city map:

Just got these . . . United Arab Emirates (UAE) 2006, nice gazelles in a nice desert scene.

Hexagon stamps on a hexagon-shaped souvenir sheet. I just noticed there is a serial number or some such over-printed on the sheet upper center. Does that mean the number issued?

More hexagonal-shaped stamps on this thread about Macau:
https://goscf.com/t/10893

Do you have this one Puzzler?




I have a spare if you would like it?

Nice one stampgal. France 2003 Tour de France stamp.

No, I do not have it. How much should I send you via PayPal for it? Or trade? Email me details please.

I just looked on ebay and there are two stamps in the set, on a sheet of 5 stamps of each (10 stamps) plus 5 labels? / pictures of the Tour de France winners.

And what is that map of? That was on a stamp khj showed I think.

In the future I shall look for one squared and one hexagonal of each.
Pic from ebay:


I think they should have perforated around all the labels / pictures of winners also. This would lead, of course, to the use of the labels as postage. I wonder if any are on cover?