Street & Rail Cars

The set of stamps on the top row 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 two inner stamps on the second to last row are commemorating stamp collecting – in particular collecting U.N. stamps. They are stamps that depict from about eleven years before, from 1986. I don’t like stamps that celebrate stamp collecting and depict an older stamp on them. But these two are worse. These stamps show stamps from 1986 (see Development Work page) commemorating stamp collecting. One even shows a collector examining yet another stamp.

The set of four stamps at the bottom, the ones with animals and insects on them are part of a series to raise awareness about endangered species. See the Endangered Species page for more on this series.

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
1.1	✓	223	Traffic	7s (aug 1997) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	224	Traffic	7s (aug 1997) comm., multicolor
1.3	✓	225	Traffic	7s (aug 1997) comm., multicolor
1.4	✓	226	Traffic	7s (aug 1997) comm., multicolor
1.5	✓	227	Traffic	7s (aug 1997) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	212	Symbols U.N.	5s (feb 1997) definitive, multicolor
2.2	✓	228	Philately	6.50s (oct 1997) comm., multicolor
2.3	✓	229	Philately	7s (oct 1997) comm., multicolor
2.4	✓	213	Symbols U.N.	6s (feb 1997) definitive, multicolor

Endangered Species

3.1	✓	214	Barbary Macaque	7s (mar 1997) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	215	Blue Crane Anthropoides paradisea	7s (mar 1997) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	216	Przewalski’s Horse	7s (mar 1997) comm., multicolor
4.2	✓	217	Giant Anteater	7s (mar 1997) 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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