Transportation
The set of stamps in the middle showing modes of transportation over past two centuries, were issued to celebrate progress in transportation. They are also meant to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of two regional commisssions of the U.N. Economic & Social Commmision. The ECOSOC is a forum for talks related to international economic and social issues.
The two regional commissions being celebrated are the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe and the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Both regionals have been working on improving transportation with member states in their purview.
Note
The set of four stamps showing birds and other animals is relaetd to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). You can read more on this and see other stamps in this series on the Endangered Species Trade page of this album.
The two outer stamps on the second to last row are commemorating stamp collecting – in particular collecting U.N. stamps. They show stamps from about eleven years before, from 1986. I don’t like stamps that celebrate stamp collecting and depict older stamps on them. But these two are worse. These stamps show stamps from 1986 (see earlier page) commemorating stamp collecting. One even shows a collector examining yet another stamp.
Contains 13 spots: own 13 – 13 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 |
Endangered Species
✓ |
700 |
32c (mar 1997) |
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✓ |
701 |
Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo |
32c (mar 1997) |
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✓ |
702 |
32c (mar 1997) |
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✓ |
703 |
32c (mar 1997) |
Transportation by Sea
✓ |
709 |
32c (aug 1997) |
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✓ |
710 |
32c (aug 1997) |
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✓ |
711 |
32c (aug 1997) |
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✓ |
712 |
32c (aug 1997) |
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✓ |
713 |
32c (aug 1997) |
Other
✓ |
714 |
32c (oct 1997) |
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✓ |
698 |
8c (feb 1997) |
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✓ |
715 |
50c (oct 1997) |
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✓ |
699 |
55c (feb 1997) |
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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