Stamps on Stamps - Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea stamps

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The Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is a country in the Gulf of Guinea, in West Middle Africa, one of the smallest in continental Africa. It is bordered by Cameroon on the north, Gabon on the south and east, and the Gulf of Guinea on the west, where the islands of Saint Tomé and Príncipe lie to its southwest. Formerly the Spanish colony of Spanish Guinea, the country's territory (continentally known as Río Muni) includes a number of islands, including the sizable island of Bioko (formerly Fernando Pó).

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

Equatorial Guinea became independent Oct. 12, 1968. In 1972, Masie Ngeuma Biyogo became president for life. He ruled by terror, reviving slavery, killing some 50,000 people and driving tens of thousands more into exile. The United States suspended relations with the Biyogo government in 1976. The Soviet Union, China and North Korea maintained close relations, and Cuba maintained a military advisory mission in the country. On Aug. 5, 1979, Masie was overthrown, and a junta assumed power. http://www.linns.com/

See: Fernando Pó

#MK574

#MK574P

Issued: 28.1.1972

Apollo 15 Moon Flight

Inside #MK574: US #1435aP

1974

MI #B110P

Issued: 9.10.1974

Centenary, UPU and ESPANA '75

Inside MI #B110-1 (In Margin): German States Thurn & Taxis stamps


#51O (15k lilac)	#14O (10sg org)

#52O (30k org)	#30O (1sg rose)

#32O (3sg bist)	#31O (2sg blue)

Inside MI #B110-2 (In Margin): German States Thurn & Taxis stamps


#13O (5sg lilac)	#61O (3k rose)

#55O (9k bister)	#54O (6k blue)

#60O (1k green)	#29O (1/2sg yell)

Note: Lou identified the stamps as #29-32 instead of #23-26 and as #60-61 instead of #54-55 because when you look closely at these stamps, you can see portions of the colored roulette lines printed to aid separation, and these are from the later printings/higher #s.

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

Thurn and Taxis - Postage stamps and postal history

In 1497, on behalf of Emperor Maximilian I of the Holy Roman Empire, Franz von Taxis established a postal service that replaced the ad-hoc courier for official mail. A horse relay system was created that shortened the transit time for mail and made its arrival predictable. Thereafter, the house of Thurn and Taxis using the imperial yellow and black livery maintained the postal privilege for many centuries. Thurn and Taxis employed the first horse-drawn mail coaches in Europe since Roman times in 1650, - they started in the town of Kocs giving rise to the term "coach".

Thurn and Taxis lost its monopoly when Napoleon granted the Rhine Confederation the right to conduct postal services. The agency continued to operate and even issued some stamps, but when Prussia created the North German Confederancy, Thurn and Taxis had to sell its privileges in 1867.

#MK963

Scott: #MK963O (Michel Bl. 109)

Issued: 30.5.1974

Centenary, UPU

Inside #MK963: US #1435aP

Inside #MK963: US #C76P

Scott: #????O

Issued: 30.4.1975

Bi-Centenary of the United States (2nd issue)

Inside #????:


US #1353P	US #1354P	US #1352O

US #1347O	US #1351O	US #1348O

US #1349O	US #1345O	US #1350O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

Scott: #????P

Issued: 25.12.1975

World Events 1976/Bi-Centenary of U.S.

Inside #????: U.S. #703P

modified: 100 ek stamp, Soccer games emblem and Concorde drawing superimposed over vignettes, inscriptons added to "perfed margins".

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

Michel 1452-1459

#Mi 1452-9P

Issued: ??.??.1979

Death Centenary of Sir Rowland Hill

Inside #Mi 1453: G.B. #1

#Mi 1452-9BP

#Mi 1452-9AO

Issued: ??.??.1979

London 1980, Death Centenary of Sir Rowland Hill

#Mi 1452-9 Overprinted “London 1980”

[The 100th Anniversary of the Death of Rowland Hill, 1795-1879, type ATF]

#Mi 1478-82P

Issued: 0.0.1979

Death Centenary of Sir Rowland Hill

Inside #Mi 1478: Switzerland #3L1O

MI #386 Inside #Mi 1479: Equatorial Guinea Mi#386O

Inside #Mi 1480: Spain #5O

Inside #Mi 1481, #Mi 1483: G.B. #1

MI #384 Inside #Mi 1482: Equatorial Guinea Mi#384O

#Mi 1482P

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert for scan

Michel Bl

#Mi Bl B-C311O

Issued: 0.0.1979

Death Centenary of Sir Rowland Hill

Inside #Mi Blk C311: G.B. #1

#114-5

Scott: #114-5O

Issued: 5.10.1987

Stamp Day

Inside #114-5: Pseudo Stamp

#212a-c

Scott: #212a-cO

Issued: 0.12.1995

Various Anniversaries

Bicentenary, Birth of Sir Rowland Hill

Inside #212c: Switzerland: Basel #3L1O

Lou wrote: Did you ever wonder, like I did, back when this issue came out, why the Equatorial Guinea designer chose a Swiitzerland- Basel 3L1 SoS, instead of a Penny Black, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Rowland Hill? It took me a while to realize that 1995 was also the 150th anniversary of the issue of the Basel stamp, so while it was not mentioned on the stamp, it ties in, and so it is a clever double anniversary. commemorative.

This satisfied me for a long time, until I recently came across several online ads for an Equatorial Guinea 1000 fr commemorative coin to note the 150th Anniversary of the Basel Taube. It is a Stamp on Coin design, as the obverse(back) of the copper-nickel coin shows the stamp in actual colors, and is quite striking. So now, there appears that there was an ulterior motive for the Basel Taube being on the issue. What is also interesting, is that there was an error on the initial run of the coins--TAUBE was misspelled TAUBER, and the coin was corrected and reissued. As is often the case with scans of metallic colors, I couldn't find scans of both types in the same color, but you can see the error plainly.

This is probably not for the SoS sites, but I thought you might like to be aware of a stamp and coin dual commemoration.