Odd Shapes On Stamps (Including Hexagons)

I wondered what that was when I first saw that stamp...I was thinking it was some sort of garden folly. Thanks for the explanation.

A hexagon in a snowflake stamp from the USA, nice.

Some of these cells are even hexagons, Puzzler!

Thanks for the posting stampgal.

But there are no regular hexagons on that stamp. The only irregular ones I can see are the ones I have put a yellow dot in. Most shapes are pentagonal (5-sided), the arrows in the center being nonagonal (9-sided). In nature most plant shapes that are polygonal are pentagonal, like the star fruit. I am learning terms myself today, thanks!



I am trying for regular shapes (from Wikipedia: cyclic (all corners lie on a single circle) and equilateral (all sides equal length).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon

Nope, changed my mind. Any hexagon with pointy corners it is now. Just one of the benefits of being a wishy-washy person.

That's funny Puzzler.

I don't think you are wishy washy,
I think you change your opinion as the facts present themselves,
admirable.

Japan stamp with hexagons on

Not sure what this stamp represents, a bicycle?, boats or plant and a flower with an arrow thingie at bottom . . . the great outdoors? Activity in nature?



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More Hexagons for you Puzz!

It is Egypt, but marked UAR after the marriage of
Egypt and Syria in 1958

Very Nice, thanks Rod.

I wonder if the "arrow thingy" on the Japan is a stylized crane?

Stealing information from Gibbons...

70 yen Japan
SG1679 (1982) T1100 70y special correspondence [0m1].jpg

special correspondence stamps
Pine, Plum, and bamboo blossoms (In Japan=congratulations)

The arrow thingy, a crane is a great interpretation,
but I think in this case routing of the mail
because of the stamp's correspondence cynosure.

I was thinking the small red patch maybe represented Grus japonensis, the red-crowned crane. Just a thought. (It looks a bit like an origami crane, to me, and that would fit the "good wishes" theme).

I see,
I missed that.
well spotted (like the flag you saw at half mast as well)

You could well be right.

A few "odd shaped" cancels to keep the thread going.
Anyone seen them before?

Not seen the slogan cancel on the Netherlands.

The other is a "Precancel" from Belgium.