Madagascar (Malagasy) stamps

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The Republic of Madagascar, or Madagascar, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the eastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the fourth largest island in the world. It is the home of five percent of the world's plant and animal species, 80 percent of them unique to Madagascar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar

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Scott: #C57P (CD 102)

(Thanks to Lou for the scan)

Issued: 6.6.1954

Liberation Issue

Inside #C57: France #718P

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Scott: #C75O (CD 114)

Issued: 8.9.1963

African Postal Union Issue

Inside #C75: Stamps on Envelopes

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Scott: #385P

Issued: 8.5.1966

Stamp Day

Inside #385: Madagascar #63O

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Scott: #C85P(CD 124)

Issued: 9.9.1967

African Postal Union Issue, 1967

Inside #C85: Stamp on Envelope

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Scott: #C92P

(Thanks to Eli for the scan)

Issued: 14.2.1969

2nd PHILEXAFRIQUE Issue

Inside #C92: Madagascar #274O

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Scott: #467O

Issued: 30.5.1972

Stamp Day

Inside #467: Stamp on Envelope

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Scott: #468-70O

Issued: 26.6.1972

2nd Malgache Philatelic Exhibition

Inside #468-70: Madagascar #352O

Inside #468-70: Madagascar #410O

Inside #468-70: Madagascar #429O

Inside #468-70: Madagascar #449O

Scott: #470aO

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Scott: #C129P

Issued: 9.7.1974

Centenary, UPU

Inside #C129: Pseudo Stamp

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Scott: #C133P

Issued: 9.10.1974

100 Years of Int'l. Collaboration-Overprint C129

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Scott: #627-8O

Issued: 19.11.1981

20th Anniversary, UPU Membership

Inside #627-8: Malagasy #C76-7O

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Scott: #C177O

Issued: 17.12.1981

Stamp Day

Malagasy #583O	Malagasy #B20O	Malagasy #456O
Malagasy #487O	Malagasy #385O	Malagasy #B23O
Malagasy #600O	Malagasy #424O	Malagasy #C89O
Malagasy #402O	Malagasy #366O	Malagasy #B22O
		Malagasy #588O

Thanks to Lou for some of the scans

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Scott: #1455O

Issued: 7.7.1999

Philexfrance 99

Inside #1455 (In margin – On rocket flight cover): Fr. Polynesia #730cO

Inside #1455 (In margin – On rocket flight cover): France #2558O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

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Scott: #1553O

Issued: 12.12.2001

Dialogue among Civilizations

Inside #1553: Pseudo Stamp on Envelope

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert

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Scott: #1611O

Issued: 1.3.2006

20^th Anniversary of the Malagasy Stamp Collectors Association (In 2004)

Inside #1611: Malagasy #481-6O

Inside #1611: Malagasy #447-9O

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Scott: #1619O

Issued: 21.10.2008

Postman Delivering mail

Inside #1619: Stamp on envelope

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Lou wrote: I found this one by accident on Bid Start, and I am positive it is spurious, but it has such a ridiculous error I had to share it. I have found in locating scans of sos on recent issues, and especially those for the 175th anniversary of the Penny Black, that the "designer" is using the internet as his source and not actual stamps as in the past.

For this issue, not only did he take the lazy way out, he didn't do very careful research. Instead of finding a scan of a Penny Black, her chose one of the unissued Penny Black official stamp--which other designers have done also--BUT, he then used a scan of the wrong Rowland Hill!  

If you Google "Sir Rowland Hill picture" or even just Rowland Hill, you will get dozens of likenesses of him drawn over his life time--and those of other unrelated Sir Rowland Hills thru English history. I would think that anyone involved in any phase of philately would know what he looked like, but with all the correct images, he chose one of another Rowland Hill, who wasn't even a relative OR knighted. I went thru the scans and found the one used. If you click on it,  you are taken to a site about hymns  that says the pictured Rowland Hill was a Church of England minister and hymn compiler who died in 1833, so he couldn't be the Rowland Hill that fathered the Penny Black in 1840. 

Most of the time, and if they are cheap enough, I add these spurious/illegal  stamps to my collection as a kind of Cinderella, but this one is so poorly researched, it's a insult to the legitimate stamps.

Caveat emptor!

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