African Stamps
I am sharing three stamps which were part of a collection of a French friend. I'm grateful for these stamps because these are the only stamps that I have from Africa. I wasn't able to participate w/ Viridian's Sunday Stamps last week because I am yet to receive anything in the mail from South America. But for this week, we are off to three countries from Africa:
CONGO. The stamp is a portrait of the first president of the Republic of the Congo, Fulbert Youlou. He's also second prime minister of the Republic of the Congo. I tried to get more info about when the stamp was issued but I was unlucky :(
GUINEA. These fishes are part of the tropical fish 6 stamp set. Siganus trispilos is commonly known as the threeblotched rabbitfish and the Naso lituratus as ornagespine unicornfish. I bet these fishes would complain if they asked to write their names, being in the kindergarten!
MADAGASCAR. Here's a picture of a native from Madagascar with a spear.The stamp was issued in 1946.
Another fun learning experience for me, I hope it was fun for you to travel and learn via stamps, too!
How very interesting! Thanks for sharing. Are you a stamp collector?
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by Dolly. I am not a very serious, big time collector but I do keep the stamps that I receive.
ReplyDeleteThat threeblotched rabbitfish looks as if it belongs to the perch family. Four fine stamps I have not seen before. Thanks
ReplyDeleteNice contrasting stamp images. You are right about fish names; the smaller they are it seems the bigger the name.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful selection of stamps! It's good to see some more unusual ones. I've just remembered I have at least one from Mauritius somewhere. I imagine that would count for this week too.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many colorful and unusual fish on stamps, but it is impossible to tell how big they are. I love the names like threeblotched rabbitfish.
ReplyDeleteThanks for participating! Neat stamps I haven't seen before.
ReplyDeleteThanks Bob, Joy, Shiela, Postcardy, & Viridian for the visit and the comments. :)
ReplyDeleteSome lovely fish stamps. Despite the name of my blog I am not particularly interested in fish! The one on the left does remind me of the "puffer fish" that we saw in Kenya though.
ReplyDeleteA nice collection, The fish stamps are lovely.
ReplyDeleteVery exotic! :)
ReplyDeleteThe fish stamps are wonderful.
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice set of stamps!
ReplyDeletelooks like people like exotic stamps ;-) i'll try to send you some more when i'll get back home :-) Ingat my twin
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