Malagasy

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

Scott: #C57P (CD 102)

(Thanks to Lou for the scan)

Issued: 6.6.1954

Liberation Issue

#718 Inside #C57: France #718P

#C75

Scott: #C75P (CD 114)

Issued: 8.9.1963

African Postal Union Issue

Inside #C75: Stamps on Envelopes

Scott: #385P

Issued: 8.5.1966

Stamp Day

Inside #385: Madagascar #63O

Scott: #C85P(CD 124)

Issued: 9.9.1967

African Postal Union Issue, 1967

Inside #C85: Stamp on Envelope

Scott: #C92P

(Thanks to Eli for the scan)

Issued: 14.2.1969

2nd PHILEXAFRIQUE Issue

Inside #C92: Madagascar #274O

#467

Scott: #467O

Issued: 30.5.1972

Stamp Day

Inside #467: Stamp on Envelope

#468

Scott: #468O, #469P, #470O

Issued: 26.6.1972

2nd Malgache Philatelic Exhibition

#352 Inside #468-70: Madagascar #352O

#410 Inside #468-70: Madagascar #410O

Inside #468-70: Madagascar #429O

#449 Inside #468-70: Madagascar #449O

Scott: #470aO

#C129

Scott: #C129P

Issued: 9.7.1974

Centenary, UPU

Inside #C129: Pseudo Stamp

#C133

Scott: #C133P

Issued: 9.10.1974

100 Years of Int'l. Collaboration-Overprint C129

#627

Scott: #627-8O

Issued: 19.11.1981

20th Anniversary, UPU Membership

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

Scott: #C177O

Issued: 17.12.1981

Stamp Day


Malagasy #583O	Malagasy #B20O	Malagasy #456O

Malagasy #487O	Malagasy #385P	Malagasy #B23O

Malagasy #600O	Malagasy #424O	Malagasy #C89O

Malagasy #402O	Malagasy #366P	Malagasy #B22O

		Malagasy #588O

Thanks to Lou for some of the scans

#1455

Scott: #1455O

Issued: 7.7.1999

Philexfrance 99

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

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

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

Scott: #1553O

Issued: 12.12.2001

Dialogue among Civilizations

Inside #1553: Pseudo Stamp on Envelope

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert

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 #447P, #448O, #449O

Scott: #1619O

Issued: 21.10.2008

Postman Delivering mail

Inside #1619: Stamp on envelope

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.

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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.

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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!