Black And White Stamps

This 50 peseta airmail stamp (Sc #C146) was issued by Spain on September 6, 1955. It depicts Leonardo Torres y Quevedo (1852-1936), Spanish civil engineer and mathematician.

This black, offset-printed stamp (Sc #583) is the third version of the 20c Durban Post Office from South Africa's 1982-7 Buildings series. The first version is a rose, offset-printed stamp, and the second version is a black, recess printing.

And, this Bolivian 10c stamp (Sc #254) showing a vicuna is from the country's January 21, 1939 set of 18 definitives.

Here is the one peso value (SC #87)from Nicaragua's Seebeck-era, 1896 "Map" series.

Netherlands. Queen Wilhelmina 60c value from long definitive set (1929).

Belgian Congo. 7 f. definitive. Issue date: May 23, 1942

Here is the 2s6d value (SG #688) from Great Britain's February 28, 1966 set of two stamps commemorating the 900th anniversary of Westminster Abbey. This nicely engraved stamp shows fan vaulting in the Henry VII Chapel.

On November 16, 1987 Monaco issued this 3 franc stamp (Sc #1597) to commemorate the birth centenary of Louis Jouvet (1887-1951) who was a French actor, film and theatre director, and professor at the French National Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Here is Ireland's September 12, 1977 set of two stamps (Hib #s C242-3) commemorating the golden jubilee of the Folklore of Ireland Society and the 1100th anniversary of the death of Irish philosopher Johannes Eriugena.

This black, 5c stamp (Sc #B20) of Surinam is from a set of six semi-postals issued on August 1, 1935 to commemorate the bicentenary of the founding of the Moravian Mission in Surinam.

This 1935, 1 1/2 pence stamp (SG #56, Sc #54) of Tonga is the last stamp issued of the 1920 Queen Salote definitive series.

Here is the 9c value (Sc #453) from Guatemala's 1986-96 Miguel Angel Asturias Cultural Center definitive series. Stamp was issued on October 1, 1991.

Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) was a 1967 Nobel laureate in literature (Scott).

On July 16, 1951 the Canal Zone issued the first six stamps of its "Globe and Wing" airmail series of 1951-8. The 80c value (Sc #C26) from this release of six is shown here.

This August 9, 1979, 90 pf stamp (Mi #601) of Berlin commemorates the 250th anniversary of the birth of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786).

From wikipedia, "Moses Mendelssohn was a German-Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted...Mendelssohn educated himself in German thought and literature and from his writings on philosophy and religion came to be regarded as a leading cultural figure of his time by both Christian and Jewish inhabitants of German-speaking Europe and beyond."

Here is the 2 pf Kaethe Kollwitz stamp (Mi #327 vb, 327 va) from the DDR's 1952 "Personalities" definitive series. The stamp varies in appearance, depending on the printer. The stamp on the left was printed by Graphische Werkstaetten Leipzig, and the one on the right by Deutsche Wertpapierdruckerei (Michel).