Sunday Stamps | Men and Their Ships

Today's topic in Sunday Stamps is Boats/Ships. Browsing my received stamps, I have realised that Men with Ships is a widespread philatelic subject!

Egypt, 1948

Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt (1789 – 1848) was an Ottoman general in the Egyptian army. The stamp was issued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death.

France, 2016

Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans (1751 - 1832) was a French naval architect and engineer. He was the inventor of the first steamboat, leading to the first industrial revolution by launching a new dynamic on the waters of the globe.

United Kingdom, 1982

HMS Dreadnought was a Royal Navy battleship the design of which revolutionised naval power. The ship's entry into service in 1906 represented such an advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships, the dreadnoughts, as well as the class of ships named after her. Lord Fisher and HMS Dreadnought is one of the stamps belonging to the set Maritime Heritage. 

United States of America, 1965

Robert Fulton (1765 – 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat (also known as Clermont).

One Stamp: Responses

On this post I asked the readers of the blog, and the Twitter folks, to answer the following question: 

Where did you like to be right now if they could chose any place in the world. Say it with one stamp. Only one!

Again, the responses where very different:

Guillaume Pelletier / @gpelletierQC

"I’d like to visit the Mont-St-Michel, France."

StampsWorldwide / @stampsworldwid

"I’d like to visit Luxor, Egypt!"

FinnBadger

"Anywhere cold!"

violet s / See it on a postcard

"If I could be anywhere in the world right now? 

New Zealand comes to mind, for so many reasons.

Gardens are such restorative places, and NZ has many."

Laura

(These arrived on the form of postcards.)

Ireland's coast

Atlantis Books, Oia, Santorini (Grece)

Sunday Stamps | E for Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Egypt, 2002-2005
Egyptian Art

Sorry for the bad quality of the image. I received these stamps from Egypt long time ago, and I thought that Egyptian hieroglyphs could be a good theme for letter E of Sunday Stamps.

Have you noticed how often the Ancient Egypt (and the hieroglyphs!) appear on stamps from countries other that Egypt?

United Kingdom, 1982
Information Technology

Hungary, 2013
The 200th Anniversary of the Birth of
Giuseppe Verdi
(This is an audible stamp!)

Brazil, 2010
Diplomatic Relations Brazil-Egypt,
Temple of Abu Simbel

The Netherlands, 2010
25th Anniversary of the company Djoser
(More information, in Dutch)

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Luxor

Sent by Mohammad (Egypt).
The postcard shows a temple in Luxor.

When I started to be a postcrosser (long, long time ago...) I was also starting to study Arabic. As I explained, I had my hopes pinned on finding a penpal to exchange letters in Arabic. Or, at least, to receive some postcards from Arabic countries, or written in Arabic... Well, all those hopes were dashed! So far, this is the only postcard I have received written in Arabic (and it was in 2010!).

But it does not mean I am disappointed. Trough mailing (and blogging) I have discovered so many unexpected and amazing people and things...!