Bridges, Bridges, Bridges! On Stamps

I've been collecting bridges on postage stamps for many years, but I've not yet seen perfin or watermarks in the form of a bridge. There is a huge amount of post cancellations with the image of bridges.

I have just come across a perfin of Switzerland showing a "Triangle". Triangle is a basic form for Truss in Truss Bridge in which triangles are used to form truss in various combinations.

Portugal (1966) - Salazar Bridge

The last volume of my catalog "Bridges of the World: Africa-Australia-Oceania" has been published. A brief summary of the ten-year work: 4 books have been written with a total volume of 2,700 pages. The catalog describes 10,000 main numbers (according to Michel) of stamps, blocks, stamps with coupons on which bridges, racks, aqueducts and viaducts are depicted. The fields of blocks and small sheets with images of bridges are also taken into account. The catalog describes works of painting and applied art with images of bridges, famous bridge builders (as well as stamps dedicated to military bridge builders: sappers, pontooners, engineers and pioneers), if possible, even the smallest images that were clearly identified as bridges were found. Most of the plots were identified as concrete structures, but due to limited volume, real images of all bridges were not included in the catalog.
And a few pages from the last volume:

Lebanon
25th September 1967
International Tourist Year

Ancient bridge, Nahr-Ibrahim

Lebanon
1st June 1971

Maameltein Bridge, Jounieh

Dubai (now United Arab Emirates)
29th March 1970
definitives

Al Maktoum Bridge (the first crossing of the creek in Dubai)



designed V. Whiteley

French Morocco
1948
definitives

The Terraces


designed by Camille Paul Josso
engraved by Pierre Gandon

Bahrain
28th December 1997
Inauguration of Sheikh Isa bin Salman Bridge (Causeway)

Causeway connects Manama and Muharraq.




designed - A. al-Shaikh

Monaco
27th April 1972
UNESCO "Save Venice" Campaign

Church of Saints John and Paul (detail from sketch by Canaletto)


After a little research, I believe that this shows the Ponte Cavallo across the Rio dei Mendicanti. The subject of the stamp - the Basilica - is not actually visible, it is off to the right.

Syria
19th August 2008
Centenary of Hejaz Railway




Researching the identity of this bridge in the fascinating book "The Hejaz Railway" by James Nicholson suggests that this might be the 14th bridge in the Yarmuk Valley below the village of Tel Shehab, 20km west of Deraa. [Image on p 136 shows a steam train, similar to that on the stamp, crossing an iron girder bridge.]

Although a target for destruction by T.E. Lawrence in November 1917, an attempt to blow up the bridge was abandoned when the Turkish sentries were alerted by one of Lawrence's raiding party dropping his rifle.

Great investigation! This bridge is still there!

Thanks, Alexey!
However, given the war in the region and the proximity of the village - and bridge - to the border with Jordan, it is possible that the bridge may have been damaged or at least has fallen into disuse.

This is even more likely considering both the stamp and the photo you provide (plus the one in the book I refer to) show steam trains which no longer operate in Syria.

I will contact my friends in the Syrian Philatelic Society to see whether they can confirm either way.

You may be right. This photo was taken in 2009. Now Russians are helping to rebuild railways and replace the narrow gauge of the Turkish road with a standard one and soon this bridge may be replaced

pump tower on the bridge of Notre Dame in Paris in the 19th century




Hi, Kris! I wanted to show this stamp in the topic about umbrellas, but it is already there. But now you know where this bridge is!