60th Anniversary

U.N. New York, Page 2005.1 (BL-2)

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Only two countries were added since the last five-year enniversary of the United Nations. Both were added in September of 2002. One was Switzerland. I’m not sure why it took them so long to join. Perhaps they wanted to continue their brand as a neutral state. However, the U.N. has had offices in Geneva for many years. That seems embarassing to host the U.N., but not join. One day I’ll find the story behind the delay and the story behind the decision to join.

The other new member was Timor-Leste, located in the Pacific Ocean in Southeast Asia, north of Australia and south east Indonesia on the eastern half of the island, Timor. It’s name seems redundant, but has some logic to it. Timor in the Malay language means, east. It was named as such because it was the big island to the east. The island is composed of two nations, West Timor in the west and Timor-Leste in the east. The word L’est is Portugese, which is an official language of the nation, and means the east. So it’s name is basically, The Eastern part of the big island in the East. It’s all relative.

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Although I’m not a fan of souvenir sheets, I do appreciate these anniversary ones. I think the U.N.’s five year anniversaries are worth making a fuss to celebrate. I should also note that I appreciate that Leuchtturm didn’t put this souvenir sheet a page by itself. The layout isn’t great on this album page, but at least it reduces the number of pages.

Contains 6 spots: own 6 – 6 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

United Nations Anniversary

1.1	✓	874	U.N. 60th Anniversary	80 (feb 2005) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	875	U.N. 60th Anniversary	1 (feb 2005) comm., multicolor

Endangered Species

3.1	✓	876	Blue Orchid	37 (mar 2005) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	877	Swan Orchid	37 (mar 2005) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	878	Christmas Orchid	37 (mar 2005) comm., multicolor
4.2	✓	879	Aerangis Modesta	37 (mar 2005) 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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