Humanity’s Inheritance
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is another specialized agency of the United Nations. Started in 1945, it focuses on education, culture, as well as the arts and sciences. Their belief is that peace can be achieved with education and exchanging of ideas and artistic expression. Besides literacy programs and education in general, they provide technical training and assistance in advanced scieces. They seek to promote and preserve cultures around the world.
Related to all of this, countries can register with UNESCO places that have cultural, historical, or scientific significance as World Heritage Sites – sites that are considered of outstanding value to humanity and that need to be preserved for future generations. If a site is approved, it will be given funding for maintaining, as well as legal protection under international treaties. Generally, UNESCO sites become tourist destinations and bring in significant revenues for the member state.
The outer stamps on the second row depict two UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The first is the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. The other is the Old Walled City of Shibam in Yemen. That’s one of the things I like about the U.N. There are typically no countries that are persona non grata. The U.S. would not consider anything of interest that Yemen has to offer the world. They would not register their assets of any value and would certainly not issue a postage stamp to promote it.
Note
The stamps on the top row are related to the Food and Agriculture Organization. I talk about them in the Geneva collection, which has the same stamps (see the World Food album page). For now, I just want to say they’re well designed stamps. Others seemed to have agreed with me. The U.N. Post Office sold from seven-hundred thousand to over a million of each stamp in this series.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ |
40 |
4.50s (mar 1984) |
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✓ |
41 |
6s (mar 1984) |
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✓ |
42 |
Serengeti Natl. Park, Tanzania |
3.50s (apr 1984) |
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✓ |
39 |
7s (feb 1984) |
|||
✓ |
43 |
Old Walled City of Shibam, Yemen |
15s (apr 1984) |
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✓ |
44 |
4.50s (may 1984) |
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✓ |
45 |
8.50s (may 1984) |
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✓ |
46 |
3.50s (nov 1984) |
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✓ |
47 |
6.50s (nov 1984) |
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.
