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2005   January Stamps, Part 2


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 first part again.



St. Helena stamps
St. Helena, a set with four stamps, merchant ships, running to this island in the South Atlantic a long time ago. Left the SS 'Umtata' and beside her the SS 'Umzinto'.
Right inside the SS 'Umtali' and beside her the SS 'Umbilo'. These ships are named with African places and belonged to Bullard King & Company, Ltd. / Natal Direct Line.
You find details at http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/bullard.html.
St. Helena




Gambia stamps
Gambia, a set with six stamps and one souvenir sheet with one stamp, passenger ships and cruise liners. Left outside the 'Bremen' of North German Lloyd, beside her Cunards 'Queen Mary'.
All following ships are Cunard ships. Right inside the 'Queen Mary 2' and beside her the 'Queen Elizabeth 2'.
Gambia
Gambia
Gambia
Left outside the 'Britanic', beside her the 'Majestic' and on the souvenir sheet the 'Aquitania'.




Grenada stamps
Grenada Carriacou & Petite Martinique, a set with six stamps and one souvenir sheet with one stamp, passenger ships and cruise liners. Left outside the 'Titanic' and beside her the 'Michelangelo'.
Right inside the 'America' and beside her the 'Mauritania', again with 'i'!
Grenada
Grenada
Grenada
Left outside the 'Vaterland', beside her the 'Deutschland' and on the souvenir sheet the 'Ile de France'. About every ship You can write a novel.


Japan
Japan, a souvenir sheet with 10 stamps 'Science and Technologies and Animations Series No. 5'. Among them this stamp with a research submersibles with the number 6500; presumable the Shinkai 6500; i.e. she is able to dive 6,500 meters.


Marshall Islands, a souvenir sheet with 12 stamps 'Festival of Arts 2004'. Among them this stamp with a tatooed warrior and a catamaran, seen from top, ahead and from the side. On this sheet there is another stamp about boat building and kids with sailingboat toys.
Marshall




Maldives
Maldive Islands, another souvenir sheet 'Jules Verne - Fantastic Voyages'. This four stamps belong to the the book 'The Lighthouse at the End of the World', of 1905. In this book Jules Verne explores piracy of the open seas.
You can see the first Jules Verne souvenir sheet on our October stamp page, click on this line.



Nicaragua stamps
Nicaragua, a supplement of 2003, which reached Germany December 2004. A set with four stamps, river ships and coasters. Left the 'Victoria', beside her the 'Irma'.
Right inside the 'Hollenbeck' and beside her the 'Managua'.
Nicaragua


France, a single stamp with the lighthouse D'Ouistreham.
France


Korea
Korea, two souvenir sheets with maps and countrysides. One of them with this lighthouse.


Germany, two local stamps of the company Ridas in Mecklenburg Vorpommern. The topic on both stamps is the same , 'sailing ships off Warnemünde'.
Ridas



Have a look to   ***   the first 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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