Stamps On Stamps

I don't think any of these have been posted earlier. Here are some images featuring the most valuable stamp on less valuable stamps. I am unable to post an image of the featured stamp itself, as several folks upthread had the brilliant idea to do.

Here is an mage of a stamp depicting a cancelled "Seated Helvetia" issue of 1854, designed by Swiss writer and graphic artist Alfred Flueckiger (1898-1983), printed by photogravure (Courvoisier, S.A.), and issued by Switzerland on March 3, 1965 to publicize the National Postage Stamp Exhibition, held in Bern, August 27 - September 5, 1965, Scott No. 463.

- nethryk

The previously called East Germany or DDR issued this peace-oriented stamp-on-stamp im 1964, showing a hand holding back a nuclear explosion, with a dove flying in the foreground holding an olive branch in its beak.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a Pedro II "Large Head" stamp of 1882, designed by Brazilian artist Márcio Rocha, printed by lithography, and issued by Brazil on August 1, 1982 for Stamp Day and to commemorate the centenary of this definitive stamp issue, Scott No. 1810.

- nethryk

If I were a topical collector, I think this would be my priority list:

1. Stamps on Stamps
2. Engraved by Slania
3. Elephants

Kirk, I more or less agree with your first two, definitely
the second.

This is a neat sub-topic. My list would be:

1. Maps on stamps
2. Stamps on stamps
3. Trains on stamps

Laurel branch, postage stamps and covers, and a magnifying glass, a semi-postal (charity) stamp designed by Austrian artist Wilhelm Dachauer (1881-1951), engraved by Hubert Woyty-Wimmer, and issued by Austria on December 3, 1949 for Stamp Day, Scott No. B268.

- nethryk

For the topic:

For the topic:

Here are images of the two stamps in a set promoting philately as "the international pastime," designed by Swedish artist Ingalill Axelsson, engraved by Czeslaw Slania, and issued by the United Nations on May 22, 1986 for use in its offices in Switzerland, Scott Nos. 146 & 147.

- nethryk

Nice cover from the Philippine Islands:

Confederación Granadina 1859.
Colombia 1959.

100 years of the first colombian stamps.
Featuring the first colombian emission issued by the "Confederación Granadina" in 1859. Leo Temprano Catalog No.:

LT 954 COP 0.05 Regular mail: 3.000.000 pcs.
LT 955 COP 0.10 Regular mail: 1.000.000 pcs.
LT 956 COP 0.10 Extra fast mail: 5.000.000 pcs.
LT 957 COP 0.15 Regular mail: 500.000 pcs.
LT 958 COP 0.25 Regular mail: 500.000 pcs.
LT 959 COP 0.25 Air mail: 3.000.000 pcs.
LT 960 COP 0.50 Air mail: 1.000.000 pcs.
LT 961 COP 1.20 Air mail: 300.000 pcs.

Printer: Staatsdruckerei Wien
Designer: Mosdossy
Dent. 12
F.D.C. 01.12.1959

HF 15 COP 5.00 Extrafast mail: 30.000 pcs.
F.D.C. 23.12.1959

COLOMBIA 1959. AVIANCA´S 40th ANNIVERSARY

LT962 COP 0.35 AIR MAIL: 5.000.000 pcs.
LT963 COP 0.60 AIR MAIL: 3.000.000 pcs.
Dent. 12
Printer: Staatsdruckerei Wien
Designer: Mosdossy
F.D.C. 05.12.1959

HF 16 COP 1.00 + 1.00 AIR MAIL: 20.000 pcs.
F.D.C. 05.12.1959

HF 17 COP 1.50 + 1.50 EXTRAFAST MAIL: 20.000 pcs.
F.D.C. 17.05.1960

Stamps issued to conmemorate Avianca´s 4oth anniversary; the oldest airline in the America´s and second oldest in the world.

The stamps show Avianca´s (then SCADTA) first plane, a Junker´s F-13 floatplane; and the most modern plane on their fleet in 1959, a Lockheed Superconstellation.

Also, on the 35 cent, the $1.00 purple and the $1.50 yellow-green stamps an image of Colombia´s first air service mail stamp an overprint from 18.06.1919 (200 issued) is shown.

For the second time Germany has reissued the penny black! For the Day of the Postage Stamp, traditionally in October.