Thematic : Umbrellas On Stamps.

For Earth Day today, a youngster's drawing of all the help the earth needs, including a protective umbrella to shield it from the dark objects above, 2018.

Another Monet has turned up - this time the artist is out at the coast below the church of Varengeville. An agency sheet for 90 years after his death; Djibuti

Can you believe it? Another Monet: four of his paintings on the backdrop of the row of poplars in the sun.

Enjoying leafing through an album, sitting under a big red umbrella. Poster stamp issued by the album company Alfred Schlaitz of Leipzig. They even made albums for poster stamps!

A Ghanese festival in which there is Libation Pouring. Maybe someone else knows more about it? 2005

The second stamp in the Ghanese set about festivals shows the parading of the royal treasure (treasury?). 2005

The third in the set of stamps featuring Ghanese festivals shows a Chieftain under a colorful umbrella - he might be watching a performance. 2005

A Ghanese festival in which there is Libation Pouring

Kris, the pouring of wine, to honour someone, or something.
From what I can tell, it is a time honoured custom used long before the introduction of Christianity to the continent.
Happy to be corrected.
(Lots of Youtube videos available... even libation to call for easy science questions in exams)

Youtube of the New Juaben Festival with umbrellas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR94_DBsdTY

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Yes, the stamp script reads treasury.

Last stamp, Ghana Durbar.
Ghanaian traditional rulers sit in state and meet their people at events called durbars (an English word that comes from an Indo-Persian term for "ruler's court").

Tarragona (Catalonia) August 1954. 100 years of the city's main avenue.

Nice stamp Cursus, the only Catalonian in a current SCF database of circa 425 Umbrella stamps.

Thank you Rod. But, it's actually a cinderella. I posted another Catalan cinderella (that of the 1977 Espamer exhibition) on this thread some years ago. It shows "The Lady of the Umbrella" statue on Barcelona's Ciutadella park.

Right you are, understood,
With Thematics I call them all stamps, Poster Stamps, Cinderellas Stamps, Postage Stamps.
They are classified under their image name.
Philumeny is the odd one out.

A procession for the ancient King Devanampiya Tissa, who reigned in the third century BC. His reign was notable for the arrival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka. stamp of 2000 (Thinking of the Sri Lankans these days.)

(Fun to remember strolling along the Ramblas.)

Nice.
Vesak Day The Buddha's Birthday (Coming May 19th)
Vegetarian food, giving to charity and bathing your Buddha.

The Tietz Company of Düsseldorf was a very fashionable department store, now under the name of Kaufhof. They issued poster stamps for each month; March says they had original models and affordable copies.

(Hi Rod, Great additional information! K.)