Your Favorite Stamp?

Nice examples, Gaff.

Thanks CJD.

Not to be a bore, but here is another recent acquisition. Really like the design elements, color, etc. It seems to capture an essence of an idea of the time and place -- like the cover for a novel by Hemmingway or Graham Greene. Maybe that's just me. Red wine and stamp collecting go very well together, by the way...




Dominican Republic C20 1935 10¢

Ha, it is virtually impossible to be a bore when you're including scans of stamps! Everyone likes to look at stamps.

The classic DR airmails are great. I posted one or two recently, probably in the ongoing airmail thread. I'm pretty sure I don't have this particular one (at least not without a heavy cancel), so I'll have to remedy that. It's neat.

C.

I did a little looking since posting the 1898 Grenada with a version of the badge of the colony a few hours ago, and it is surprisingly hard to i.d. the name of the flagship from the third voyage of Columbus using the internets. Capitana is the only i.d. I could find, and I don't believe that is right.

What is not surprising is the degree to which content is lifted (without attribution) left and right. I cannot tell you how many times I re-read the same stuff, word for word, across many sites. C'mon people, you can try at least as hard as the average college freshman and use babelfish to translate it into German or Latin, and back, to make it your own...

If then the vignette is of Columbus' vessel, then sure, it
would be square rigged.
He stopped off at the Canaries, and had the lateen changed
to square rig on the "Pinta" I think. (1st voyage)

The ship looks odd, because the stern with the poop, is drawn
in such a way it looks like the bow end of a ship.

CLARIOR E TENEBRIS = Light out of darkness

The online translators do throw up some interesting translations of Latin, such as "brighter from obscurity"

The design of the Grenada stamp is taken from the badge of the colony, which represents one of Columbus' ships. I don't think that the representation was intended to be either literal or realistic.

The same design featured on the Grenada colonial flag 1903-1974.