Preaching to Muslims

These stamps of Jesus amongst several people were issued in 1923 in Italy. You can see them on the Mazzini & Missions page – there’s an explanation of them there. They’re unusual stamps; I have mixed feelings about them. I don’t like large stamps and I don’t think stamps should depict Jesus, other than in navity scenes on Christmas stamps. They’re kind of nice looking in that they’re colorful and well designed, but the color combinations are disturbing.

Most of all, I don’t like that the Italian post office issued these to be used in Muslim colonies. It’s culturally insensitive. Did they expect these stamps to convert the colonists to Christianity and Catholicism? It’s pointless and probably did no good for Italy and its relations with the colonists. It was a bad idea.

Note

This is another page in which I received recently a set of elephant and lion stamps to complete the page – the sixth set issued. For these, I bid on them at an auction and won the bid. So I have another completed page in this album.

I’m trying to decidde if I should redo this page and the previous one, to put this set of elephant and lion stamps together with the ones on the previous page. They’re both part of the same set. But then I’d have a page with just elephants and lion stamps, which would be boring, especially since the first page in this album is already like that.

Contains 9 spots: own 9 – 9 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Feb 5, 2025

Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Missionary Office: 300 Years

1.1	✓	45	Jesus Preaching	6b (oct 1923) comm., orange & olive
1.2	✓	46	Jesus Preaching	13b (oct 1923) comm., orange & carmine
2.1	✓	47	Jesus Preaching	20b (oct 1923) comm., orange & purple
2.2	✓	48	Jesus Preaching	30b (oct 1923) comm., orange & sky blue

Benadir Pictorials V

3.1	✓	40	African Lion	20b (jul 1923) definitive, brown orange
3.2	✓	41	African Lion	25b (jul 1923) definitive, brown orange
4.1	✓	42	African Lion	30b (jul 1923) definitive, blue
4.2	✓	43	African Lion	60b (jul 1923) definitive, lilac
4.3	✓	44	African Lion	1r (jul 1923) definitive, lilac

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.