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Laos stamps

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Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked socialist republic communist state in southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (Burma) and the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west. Laos traces its history to the Kingdom of Lan Xang or Land of a Million Elephants, which existed from the 14th to the 18th century. After a period as a French colony, it gained independence in 1945. A long civil war ended when the communist Pathet Lao came to power in 1975.

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

#79-2

Scott: #78-9O (Mi #125-6)

Issued: 15.11.1962

Stamp Day

Inside #78:


Laos #18P	Laos #68O (Mi #111)	Laos #43P (Mi #76)	Laos #71O (Mi #118)

Laos #49O (Mi #86)	Laos #63O (Mi #100)	Laos #C26O (Mi #65)	Laos #C19O (Mi #48)

Inside #79: Stamp on Envelope

michel Block 29B

Mi #BL 29A-BO

Thanks to Dr. Eli Moallem

KINGDOM OF LAOS 1951 – 1975: http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0545/index0545_025.htm

%23138

%23139 #140

Scott: #137-40P (Mi #193-6)

Issued: 7.9.1966

International Letter Writing Week

#63-2 Inside #137-40: Laos #63O (Mi #100)

Scott: #140aP (Mi #BL41)

(Thanks to Lou Guadagno)

KINGDOM OF LAOS 1951 – 1975: http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0545/index0545_046.htm

#223-2

#C19

Scott: #223-5O, #C84O (Mi #323-6)

Issued: 2.11.1971

20^th Anniversary, Laotian Stamps

#15-2 Inside #223: Laos #15O (Mi #17)

Inside #224: Laos #C25O (Mi #64)

#C19 Inside #225: Laos #C19O

Inside #C84: Laos #C27O (Mi #70)

#223a

Scott: #223aO (Mi #BL49)

#15-2 Inside #223a: Laos #15O (Mi #17)

#10-2 Inside #223a: Laos #10O (Mi #15)

Inside #223a: Laos #8O (Mi #14)

Thanks to Dr. Eli Moallem

KINGDOM OF LAOS 1951 – 1975: http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0545/index0545_072.htm

%23244-2 #245-2

#c115

Scott: #244-5P, #C114P, #115O (Mi #376-8, 389)

Issued: 30.4.1974 / 9.10.1974

Centenary, UPU

Inside #244-5, #C114-5: Stamp on Envelope

#C115a-2

Scott: #C115aO (Mi #BL50)

Thanks to Dr. Eli Moallem for the scans

KINGDOM OF LAOS 1951 – 1975: http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0545/index0545_081.htm

#306 #307

#308

Scott: #306-9O

Issued: 18.1.1979

15th Anniversary, Asian-Oceanic Postal Union

Inside #306, #309: Stamp on Envelope

Scott: #426HO, #426JO, #426KO, #426TO, #426UO

Issued: 00.00.1982

Laos #306-9 Overprint 1982 in red and black

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert

[International Stamp Exhibition "Bangkok '83" - Bangkok, Thailand, type ]

Scott: #480P

Issued: 04.08.1983

International Stamp Exhibition "Bangkok '83" - Bangkok, Thailand

Inside #480: Emblem in Margin

Scott: #508BO

Issued: 00.00.1983

Laos #306 Overprint 1983 in red

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert

Scott: #676EO, #676GO

Issued: 00.00.1985

Laos #306 & #308 Overprint 1985 in red

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert

Scott: #714P

Issued: 22.5.1986

AMERIPEX '86

Inside #714: Emblem in Margin

Scott: #795P

Issued: 12.5.1987

CAPEX '87

#282 Inside #795: Canada #282P

Lou Guadagno wrote: There are no SoS in this group (Laos Sc #788-94), only the s/s, #795 is SoS. All are pre-philatelic except the 6k (cover dated 1861), and are reproductions of actual maritime mail from Montreal, Canada.

I expanded my SoS collection to include Postal Markings in 1974, when I realized, that in addition to SoS issues with postmarked stamps and covers I had already collected, many other stamps were reproducing just cancels and postal markings with significant/historical dates or were just interesting, and it just felt right to include them. In an article I wrote which never made it to a Signal, I opened with: "When you collect ham on stamps, ham and eggs on stamps are okay to collect, but what do you do with just eggs on stamps? You collect them, too!". Over the years, more and more postal bureaus recognized their importance to postal history and postal markings began to appear regularly. Since I keep my collection in chronological order, it is quite easy to see this growth, and to me they just naturally go together.

#812

Scott: #812O

Issued: 2.9.1987

HAFNIA '87

Inside #812: Emblem in Margin

Lao PDR Mi 1200 Lao PDR Mi 1201 Lao PDR Mi 1202

Lao PDR Mi 1203 Lao PDR Mi 1204 Lao PDR Mi 1205

Scott: #1009-14O (#1010-3P)

Issued: 26.4.1990

Stamp World London '90

GB #1 te Inside #1009: G.B. #1 [R-I]

Visit: The Penny Black Plate project http://www.arcieriminerva.it/SOS/homeSOS.htm

Inside #1010: US #1O

Inside #1011: France #3O

Inside #1012: Sardinia #1O

Inside #1013: Indochina #3P

Postage stamps and postal history of Indochina

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

Inside #1014: Spain #1P

Scott: #1015O

Inside #1015: Laos #272P

Scott: #????P

Thanks to Dr. Eli Moallem

Scott: #????-?O

Issued: 05.02.2010

Rural Life in Laos

Inside #????: Laos #39O

Marc Leguay, a French artist, lived in Laos for many years. He designed most of stamps of the Kingdom of Laos (1951-1975). He had a number of concubinage and 20 children! They were all used as models for his paintings.

A reporter for Life Magazine did an article about Laos Stamps took this picture - a mistress of Leguay seem called Nang Sy and her daughter Eliane. This photo was inspired Leguay and he combined it in one of his paintings (See above) and of course in the stamp issued in 1957. Obviously the new stamp from 2010 is the mirror image without giving the credit to Leguay.

Thanks to Dr. Eli Muallem