Bridges, Bridges, Bridges! On Stamps

The Golden Gate Bridge in Northern California, USA is pictured on this modern Swiss personalized mailing label. This view is from San Francisco looking into Marin County.

Here are images of the four stamps in a set depicting bridges of Gabon at, respectively: Tchibanga; Mouila; Kango; and Lambaréné, designed and engraved by French artist Georges Bétemps (1921-1992), and issued by Gabon on January 30, 1976, Scott Nos. 359-362.

- nethryk

One of the designs from Ireland's August 2, 2018 issue of 8 computer-vended stamps is a repeat of one of the 2 traditional Europa "Bridge" stamps issued on May 3, 2018 (see page 53 of this thread). This "Boyne Viaduct 1900" issue uses the same image with slightly different cropping. Construction of the railway bridge/viaduct was completed in 1855, but improvements have, of course, been made over the years.

From Wikipedia, "The viaduct was designed by Irish civil engineer Sir John Benjamin Macneill using new mathematical stress analysis developed just a few years before by William Bindon Blood at Queen's College, Galway."

the main truss of Boyone Bridge was strengthened after 1900. Its modern design is more in line with the increased loads. (It is not clear why Boyone Bridge is called Viaduct everywhere)

Here is an image of an airmail stamp depicting the Weygand Bridge, a deck arch bridge which crosses over the Sassandra River, and the first reinforced concrete bridge built in Africa, completed in 1947, designed and engraved by French artist Claude Durrens (1921-2003), and issued by Ivory Coast on May 4, 1974 as one of a set of two similar stamps, Scott No. C56, plus a photo of the Weygand Bridge.

- nethryk

This Venezuelan cinderella publicizes "The Friends of Oriente University". Oriente University is a modern (founded in 1959) public university located in Ciudad Bolivar in the southeast of the country.

The Angostura Bridge is depicted on the label. It spans the Orinoco River at Ciudad Bolivar.

The real Angostura bridge looks like this.



I think on the label the inattentive artist depicted the Golden Gate bridge (he missed one jumper in the bridge pylon).

Yes. The cross braces underneath caught my eye and made me wonder if the artist had ever seen the Angostura Bridge.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting Pont Valentré, a 14th-century six-span fortified stone arch bridge crossing the Lot River to the west of Cahors, France, designed and engraved by André Lavergne (1946- ), and issued by France on April 28, 2008 to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the bridge, Scott No. 3435, Y&T No. 4180, plus a photo of Pont Valentré.

- nethryk

Valentre Bridge often appeared on postage stamps





The name Cahor is associated in Russia with the name of church wine for communion

Portugal
EUROPA - Bridges
May 9, 2018
Vasco da Gama Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge flanked by viaducts and rangeviews that spans the Tagus River in Parque das Nações in Lisbon. The bridge was opened to traffic in March 1998, just in time for Expo 98 that celebrated the quincentenary of the discovery by Vasco da Gama of the sea route from Europe to India.

Greece
EUROPA - Bridges
May 24, 2018
Rio–Antirrio Bridge crosses the Gulf of Corinth near Patras, linking the town of Rio on the Peloponnese peninsula to Antirrio on mainland Greece. It is one of the world's longest multi-span cable-stayed bridges. It opened one day before the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics.

Sri Lanka
Bridges
May 27, 2011
Peradeniya suspension bridge lies across the Mahaweli Ganga connecting the Peradeniya Botanical Garden and the Gannoruwa School of Agriculture. Two pairs of 9.5 meter high pillars hold the steel cables of the 127 meter long bridge. It has been built in 1931, during the British rule of then Ceylon.

Croatia 2015

Iran
6th May 1942
definitives
Veresk Bridge