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2005   January Stamps, Part 1


Because of the big number of 60 stamps and / or souvenir sheets we have two pages, part one and part two. At the end of this page You can call the second part.



Ascension stamps
Ascension Island, a set with four stamps, merchant ships, running to this island in the South Atlantic. Left the freighter MV 'Ascension' and beside her the tanker MV 'Maersk Gannet'.
Right inside the supply and mail-ship RMS 'St. Helena' is depicted, beside her the cruise liner RMS 'Caronia'.
Ascension stamps




Kiribati stamp
Kiribati
Kiribati
Kiribati
Kiribati, a set with four stamps, ships, visiting these islands in the Pacific. On top from left the fisherman MV 'Montelucia' (Calvo Pesca, Curacao), then the cruise liner MS 'Pacific Princess' (P&O Princess Cruises, Gibraltar) and MS 'Prinsendam' (II., Holland America Line, Rotterdam). Left the liner MS 'Norwegian Wind' (Kloster Cruise, Nassau).




Tristan stamps
Tristan da Cunha, a set with six stamps, connections between Tristan and the outside world. Left the RMS 'Dunottar Castle' and beside her the RMS 'Caronia', this time with a green hull (see the stamp at Ascension Island).
Right inside the small freighter MV 'Edinburgh' and the MV 'SA Agulhas'.
Tristan da Cunha
Tristan stamps
Left outside the passenger ship MV 'Explorer' and beside her the cruiser 'Hanseatic'.




South Georgia & The South Sandwich Islands, a set with four stamps, ships ruunning to these islands. Right inside the RMS "QE 2' and outside the MS 'Endeavour'.
South Georgia
South Georgia
Left outside the MS 'Lindblad Explorer' and beside her the SS 'Canberra'.




Bahamas stamps
Bahamas, a set with six stamps, passenger ships and cruise liners. Left outside the RMS 'Mauretania' (Cunard), beside her the MV 'Adonia' (P&O Cruises, London).
Right inside the MS 'Royal Princess' (Princess Cruises, London) and beside her the SS 'Queen of Nassau' (Barron Collier).
Bahamas
Bahamas
Left outside the RMS 'Transvaal Castle' (Union Castle Line) and beside her the SS 'Norway' (Norwegian Cruise Line).


Brasil
Brasil, a se-tenant of four stamps about World War II (II Guerra Mundial). Air force, army and navy arte depicted with some medals. Here the stamp of the navy with the medals for the commitment in the South Atlantic (Campanha do Atlantico Sul), the destroyer MARCILIO is depicted. (Source Mario Rosner)


Falkland Islands, a set with four stamps 'Sir Rowland Hill'. On each stamp an old stamp is depicted. Among them this stamp with HMS 'Glasgow'.
Falkland




St. Vincent
St. VIncent
St. Vincent, a set with four stamps and two souvenir sheets, each with one stamp 'Battle of Trafalgar', happened 200 years before at the 21st October, 1805. On the four stamps there are the portraits of the Admirals Nelson and Collingwood, Captain Hardy and Napoleon Bonaparte. On the two souvenir sheets we see left the 'Nelson Touch'; Admiral Nelson declares his officers the battle plan. Right we see ships of the line with HMS 'Victory' in the center.



Vanuatu stamps
Vanuatu
Vanuatu, a set wth four stamps and a souvenir sheet with one stamp '25th Anniversary of the Musket Cove to Port Villa Yacht Race'. This set is a joint issue with Fiji. In the souvenir sheet the stamp with the '200' value is depicted.
You can see the Fiji stamps on our December page, click on this line.



Have a look to   ***   the second part   ***   of our January stamps. Please, click on this line.



To show some more stamps and/or whole souvenir-sheets the pictures are high compressed, so accuracy goes down.


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