Today's theme in Sunday Stamps is Land and Sea. That makes me think of... lighthouses, of course!
I'm showing today some lighthouses sheets that I have got by snail mail, but inside envelopes. So, they remain mint.
Nieuwe Sluis is a lighthouse located near Breskens, a harbour town in the province of Zeeland, in the south-western Netherlands. It is the oldest remaining cast-iron lighthouse in the Netherlands. It was built in 1867 and became a monument in 1982. Since 2010 it no longer serves a nautical purpose and in October 2011 the light went out permanently.
Nieuwe Sluis is a lighthouse located near Breskens, a harbour town in the province of Zeeland, in the south-western Netherlands. It is the oldest remaining cast-iron lighthouse in the Netherlands. It was built in 1867 and became a monument in 1982. Since 2010 it no longer serves a nautical purpose and in October 2011 the light went out permanently.
The minisheet was issued on 27 April 2010. Have you noticed the high face value?
Argentinian minisheet issued on 18 March 2006, featuring four lighthouses:
-Primero de Mayo (in the Antarctica);
-Año Nuevo (1902);
-El Rincón (1925);
-Recalada a Bahía Blance (1906)
And a stamp booklet entitle Lighthouses of the Adriatic and of the Danube, issued by a country not longer existing: Yugoslavia. Most of these lighthouses are in Croatia nowadays.
