Medicinal Plants

U.N. New York, Page 90.1 (BL-1)

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The U.N. Industrial Development Organization started in 1966 to help accelerate the industrialization of developing countries, especially those who were newly decolonization – but had no industry.

The two stamps at the start of the second row of this album page, the stamps with images of flowering plants are meant to make the public aware of the work of the U.N.I.D.O. In particular, that the world can use the wealth of flora in natural or cultivated forms to provide effective pharmaceuticals. And without them, the world would be at a loss for cures of future diseases and other illnesses.

Note

The stamps of medicinal plants are very nice. I don’t like the ones on the top row related to AIDS. That issue of stamps is covered elsewhere (see Aids). The stamps on the third row commemorate the forty-fifth anniversary of the U.N. They were issued along with a souvenir sheet. See the next page for more on that.

The last stamp is for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the predecessor of what’s now called the World Trade Organization (WTO). That’s not covered on any other page here, but I will eventually add one.

Contains 9 spots: own 9 – 9 unused, 0 used.
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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
1.1	✓	573	Fight AIDS	25c (mar 1990) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	574	Fight AIDS	40c (mar 1990) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	575	Medicinal Plants	25c (may 1990) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	576	Medicinal Plants	90c (may 1990) comm., multicolor
2.3	✓	580	Crime Prevention	25c (sep 1990) comm., multicolor
2.4	✓	581	Crime Prevention	36c (sep 1990) comm., multicolor

United Nations Anniversary

3.1	✓	577	U.N. Forty-Fifth Anniversary	25c (jun 1990) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	578	U.N. Forty-Fifth Anniversary	45c (jun 1990) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	572	Intl. Trade Centre	25c (feb 1990) comm., multicolor

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.

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