Show Us Your Beautiful Flowers On Stamps!

This is turning into a huge thread! (YAY!)

I hope this isn't a duplicate:

Cloves are the aromatic flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae, Syzygium aromaticum, native to the Maluku islands in Indonesia, commonly employed as spice. Here are images of a couple of similar stamps depicting cloves, along with an inset portrait of Sayyid Sir Khalifa II bin Harub Al-Said, GCB, GCMG, GBE (1879-1960), the ninth Sultan of Zanzibar, designed by W.J. Jennings, engraved and printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., Ltd., and issued for use in Zanzibar on August 26, 1957, Scott Note: Pemba Island, just off the coast of Tanzania, is now the largest producer of cloves.

- nethryk

Medicinal flowers (1973)


...aristolochia clematatis................echinops ritro.....................olea europaea......................corydalis cava....................viscum album................symphytum officinale
............birthwort .....................small globe thistle.....................olive............................ hollow root ...................... mistletoe ................... common comfrey

Here are images of the four flowers stamps (daffodil, rose, clover and water lily) in a semi-postal (charity) set designed by Swiss artist Werner Weiskönig (1907-1982), printed by photogravure (Courvoisier, S.A.), and issued by Switzerland on December 1, 1964 to benefit children's welfare funds, Scott Nos. B340-B342.

- nethryk

You can post the image of a certain stamp, and so can everybody else who has the same stamp, especially if it's in mint condition.
That's fine.
Postmarks could be an individualizing feature.
An envelope with that stamp, especially circulated, is even more rare.
An envelope with that stamp, addressed to YOU and really circulated, is probably unique.
Another chance of uniqueness is to create a maximum card, perhaps the only one in the world with that exact configuration.
For example, I created only one maxicard with this configuration--using a sunflower stamp.

Here is an image of a stamp featuring a single rose, designed by Jean-Marc Lallemand, engraved by Jean Pheulpin, and issued by France on November 15, 1975 to publicize the Picardy region, Scott No. 1443, Y&T No. 1847.
"Roses of Picardy" is a British popular World War I era song with lyrics by Frederick Weatherly and music by Haydn Wood, published in London in 1916 by Chappell & Co., and recorded many times since. Here also is an image of the cover for the sheet music for "Roses of Picardy," c. 1920, plus a YouTube link to a 1962 recorded performance of the song by American singer Frank Sinatra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yNeT2FL0bk

- nethryk

"Ten roses," engraved and printed by Pakistan Security Printing Corporation, Ltd., Karachi, and issued by Pakistan on November 4, 1961 as one of a set of two similar stamps publicizing Co-Operative Day, Scott No. 154.

- nethryk

Canada issued between 1964 to 1966 this Provincial & Territorial
Coat of Arms and Flowers set.
It was meant as an introduction to the 1967 Centennial Year.
The set was completed with a stamp showing the Canadian
Coat of Arms and the Maple Leaf (Scott 429A)

The stamps were printed 1 colour engraved, combined with
2 colours offset/lithography.
I remember when they first came out, I thought they
looked great but don't forget 50 years ago it was
a thrill to see flowers on stamps ( or anything for that
matter) printed via multicolour.

Canada

Scott 418 - 429

Nice Litho! :-)

Nells250,

That Russia stamp is so calming to look at for me. The flowers look something like hollyhocks that my dad used to have back around the back of the house.

Here are images of the two stamps in a set depicting flowering herbs, designed and engraved by Lars Sjööblom, and issued by Sweden on September 24, 2009, Scott Nos. 2622 & 2623.

- nethryk

Dill (Anethum graveolens)


Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)

Here a block of Finland flowers!