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Turn On The Light! Candles, Lamps, Torches, Candelights, Bedside Lamps.

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Posted 02/26/2022   1:58 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tomonakaazu to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It is amazing how many "Turn on the Light" can be collectively gathered.. and still I have more, so as bookbndrbob! OK, let's carry on in that case.

Liechtenstein
1 September 1964
"Arms" Barons of Brandis

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Here's another torch. The one shilling value Sc #156) of Fiji's 1954-9 QEII definitive series depicts a spear fisherman working by torchlight.

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This September 25, 1954 seventy-five haler value (Sc #650) of Czechoslovakia is from the "Professions" definitive series. Stamp shows a lathe operator using a light-enhanced machine.

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Great Britain
13 May 2010
Britain Alone - Women in Factories (scott 2800)

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Japan
15 September 1953
Definitive: fishing with cormorants

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Here is another lighting-themed stamp from Great Britain's Millennium Projects issues. This one is from the November 7, 2000 (11th series) "Spirit and Faith" set of four. It is the "1st" rate value (SG #1482) depicting "Church Floodlighting". Specifically, the stamp shows the 'floodlit Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Overstowey (Church Floodlighting Trust)'.

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On November 16, 1983 Great Britain issued a five-value, bird-themed Christmas set. The 28p stamp (SG #1234) from this set depicts two birds on a street lamp.

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This November 9, 1949 1.50 koruna value (Sc #394) of Czechoslovakia is from the three-stamp Miner's Day set. Stamp shows two medieval miners, and one is carrying an oil lamp.

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Monaco
12 December 1966
"First Anniversary of Underwater Research Craft" - Precontinent #8546; - design: B. Minne / engrave: R. Cami

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Canada
28 September 1967
Centenary of Toronto - designed: Harvey Thomas Prosser / picture engrave: Yves Baril / lettering engrave: Donald J. Mitchell

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24 February 2011
"Musicals" 97p Me and My Girl - street lamp from 1930s in London (Mayfair or Lambeth)

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A torch is shown on the 1.50 franc value (Sc #262) of France's 1931 Colonial Exposition set of four.

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On February 27, 1961 France issued this 50 centimes stamp (Sc #261) commemorating Paris's Orly Airport. Stamp depicts exterior lighting.

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Here is the USA's August 27, 1959 10c airmail stamp (Sc #C56) commemorating the Pan American Games in Chicago. Stamp shows a runner carrying a torch

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This October 17, 2019 one euro value of Ireland is from the Christmas set of six stamps. Carolers are shown under a street lamp.

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