Black And White Stamps

Here is the 50 centavos value (Sc #482) from Ecuador's 1947 definitive series. Stamp depicts Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo (1747-1795), a scientist, writer and lawyer of colonial Ecuador. Espejo wrote about the corruption by the colonial authorities. He was imprisoned for this, and at the age of 47 died of dysentery shortly thereafter.

On July 1, 1960 Bahrain issued a set of eleven definitive stamps bearing the portrait of Emir Sheikh Salman bin Hamid Al-Khalifa (1894-1961) who ruled the country from February 20, 1942 until his death on November 2, 1961. Here is the one rupee value (Sc #126) from the set.

This November 17, 1954, 3 1/2d stamp (Sc #276) of Australia commemorates Australian Antarctic research expeditions.

Wow bookbndrbob - your collection is amazing!

I also have B/W holder in my stamp album... and being amazed how many more you have listed here all together!!
And found this series from US has not been featured yet. ; )

United States
18 May 2004, Isamu Noguchi







Barbican Centre Art Gallery in London hosted an exhibition on Isamu Noguchi until a week ago. It was a wonderful show, even showed a few mock-ups, which he helped Buckminster Fuller's futuristic car projects. I feature an image below, as this section was completely Black & White installation!

Great Britain
16 October 2012
Space Science: Lutetia (detail are on "Collect GB" archive, which cannot link here somehow..)

Here is Czechoslovakia's February 26, 1962 sixty haler stamp (Sc #1101) commemorating the centenary of the Czech Medical Association. Stamp shows a hand holding up the Rod of Aesculapius with Prague Castle in the background.

Nice one, bookbndrbob ! How about more curved snakes on a stick..?

Australia
1949 (or 1952?)

Nice post tomonakaazu! Technically, the engraving on the Aussie stamp is a little nicer and the printing is cleaner, but the strangeness of Czechoslovakian stamp is more intriguing...to me, anyway.

Here are four from Malacca. They are the 1c values of the definitive issues of 1949, 1954, 1957 and 1960.

Lovely feature bookbndrbob! Great examples to view engravers' technique and effort, and compare different atmospheres of Letter-press and Intaglio on the same subject. Even she ware the same earrings.. : )

Adding one more Queen's side view - this case in intaglio, and maybe the same earring..? Hair separation line existed on her right side view. And roundness (or body bumps?) of penguins are expressed by tiny dots.

South Georgia
1963

Here are two from Brunei. The first one is the 50c value (Sc #72) from the 1947-51 definitive series, and the second one is the 1c value (Sc #83) from the 1952-58 definitive series.

Ecuador 1939 / Looks very pop and modern!

Tunisia
January 1906 / Mosque at Kairouan

"Arch and capitals" depicted in stamps are one of my collecting themes, and found a topic page in this forum recently!
This stamp shows multi-cultural mixture of architectural ornaments from East and West, in North Africa.



Featured in my Well Centred blog last summer: https://wellcentred.wordpress.com/2...nd-capitals/

Seriously Black & White - nice one, KuoLC5310!! If compare, my previous post looks Cream and Brown...

Mexico
1934 / Airmail

Oooops, I found the Mexico B/W above was already posted on this thread. Sorry!
This time, I have checked and they are not on yet..

GB
15 May 2012 / Great British Fashion: Tommy Nutter & Alexander McQueen

New Zealand
Tourism - Welcome Back
June 1, 2022
The stamp set celebrates reopening of the borders to visitors after the COVID-19 pandemic. The stamp set calls for Care for New Zealand, Show Respect, Drive Carefully, Be Prepared, Keep NZ Clean, Protect Nature.