Ship Stamps

and Norway

Nae, me laddie,
The "O" in "Posta Romana" has rounded edges on the large format stamp, and squared ends on the smaller sized stamp

May sound like useless information, but can be very helpful when ID on the fly, with these very ubiquitous stamps.

The smaller format stamp........

I found a few that I don't think have been posted yet. No wonder this is such a popular subject- there are a lot of gorgeous ships around.






Ok, so less a ship and more of a boat :)

It's a cliche, but a beautiful cliche...even though this stamp probably appears a dozen places on SCF, every "ship" thread needs a Bluenose. As most of you (all of you?) probably know, this stamp pictures the Bluenose twice...the "1" on the sail was changed to a "2" on the second ship.





[I borrowed the best-centered example I could find in sixty seconds or less...I still need an unused example for myself.]

Hi Atlashealth
2nd ship; bottoms up!



Family & KGV

A boat? A ship?
Samuel Eliot Morrison, official naval historian of the U.S. Navy in WW II, is that a "boat" is small enough to be carried on the deck of another vessel. A "ship" is too large for that to happen.
By historical practice, I believe nuclear-powered, ICBM-armed submarines are still called "boats" despite their large size. Stan:rcsd

Spain, and Colombus prior to his trip to the New World. Interestingly, the engaver, I believe has captured the image of the tiny fleet in a moment of time before setting out.

I would have dig out my history books, but the tiny ship on the left is still shown rigged as a Caravel, IIRC Columbus shortly after setting out, called into an Island, I cannot recall where and had his ship, re-rigged as a square master for the run across the briny.

A note about Andere's post with the 3c US Frigate Constitution. It is the world's oldest commissioned warship. It has a US Navy captain and crew. But it is considered historically much too valuable to lose to take her out except for rare special occasions.

Marty

CJD, one of these days I'm going to own one of those Blue Nose stamps, but I doubt as nice as the one in that scan.

Rod, nice triangle.

Yes, the famous Bluenose, I have one Kirk, suffice to say
it defines the term "used" very well

Bluenose on Glassine:

That's actually a very clever implementation of a marketing slogan. Cool.

Found a few more :D




That Chinese stamp is one of my favorites.

These pics are GREAT! I am a U. S. only collector but I could
really get into a specialty collection like this!

A lot of great stamps here.

Hong Kong 1997 showing cargo and container ships