Black And White Stamps

Hey! I must have missed this post before...

Thanks Steve
A new issue for my "Insulators" on stamps..wow

5 Reis

Cape Verde Islands.....

Keep those pics coming.

Thanks, Rod, now I know where Cape Verde is.

Steve

https://goscf.com/t/1135#5918
this has some amazing stamps..
a boat load of premiums with this cover....
I am impressed.

These are really, really neat. In my photography hobby I am increasingly using black and white (even film) because the effects are just more dramatic than color. Now I have to start another stamp theme collection (sigh).

Iceland in black and white

Hi rod222, Nice map but it shows the cape called Cape Verde (or Cap Vert) not the country which a group of islands about 350 miles west of the cape.

edited - I originally said the islands were east of the cape!

nigel
Cap-Vert is the french name. Cabo Verde in portuguese. Cape Verde is also use in english but it's all the same group of islands.

Hi timbres667,

I think you've misunderstood my point. There's a cape in Senegal called Cape Verde / Cap Vert / Cabo Verde etc. which is shown on the map here and there is also an independent country (and former Portuguese colony) with the same name which is a group of islands in the Atlantic. These two Cape Verdes are about 350 miles apart. The map shows the cape but does not show the islands.

Amazing Iceland souvenir sheets.

Republic of Cape Verde, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde

I wonder, if there is a similarly named street on the Cape Verde and in Cape Verde, if the mails get delivered to the wrong country sometimes?

Used to happen here with similarly named streets just across the harbour.

nigelc you're completely right. The map in rod post doesn't show the islands of Cape Verde but the cape in Sénégal. Ahhh! Cap-Vert the country of Cesaria Evora. I wonder if there is a stamp about her. Got to hear her beautiful voice again.

Thanks for bringing this post back to life. I have really enjoyed going through each page and seeing some GREAT looking stamps. Keep them coming!

I once posted some stamps to the late Mette Heindorff
in Denmark.
Posting them from my Perth West Aussie location, the package
went first to Denmark, a town in the South of Western Australia
before heading overseas.
( someone sorted prior to their morning coffee )

Denmark Western Australia (bottom of map)

A couple on holidays from somewhere in Europe recently arrived in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, a friendly cola (oops) coal mining town down in Cape Breton Island.

They were a bit surprised when they got off the plane as they had expected to be in Sydney, Australia. This rerouting has happen before too.

That's an interesting observation, as an English speaker
Cape Verde Islands suggests a group of Islands nestling
in Cape Verde, or in the near vicinity, I saw nothing wrong
with the map ( a childs school atlas) and the Cape that
gave the name to the Islands. The aim was to locate their general position.

Being as they are so far away, I think it's a valid point to raise.
In the days of Henry the navigator, the name I suspect was
quite pertinent to sailors in caravels heading south as a reference point.
As a modern name and being 570 Km off the coast, that is some stretch.