I posted this originally back in March 2015 on page 4 but the images
disappeared due to the
photobucked fiasco
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I watched an old movie the other day called
Aguirre, the Wrath of God.Kind of an offbeat (weird) movie about a 16th Century Spanish
conquistador which made me think about my Spanish stamps.
What a train of thought I have; movie to stamps, sometimes
stamps to book or vice versa.
This 1961 set called Builders of the New World shows
Spanish conquistadors and an Admiral
Sebastian de Belalcazar (1479 or 1480 – 1551) Panama,Nicaragua, Ecuador, Peru, Columbia
Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta ( 1689 – 1741)New Granada
Rodrigo de Bastidas (1460 – 1527) Panama, Columbia
Nuflo de Chavez (1518–1568) Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil
Spain
Scott 1013 - 1020







