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The Museum of Stamps and Coins of Monaco establish in the end of 1995 and opened to the public in January 1996. The
Museum, of contemporary design, houses rare stamps depicting the
Principality’s postal history, as well as all the documents, which have been used in the stamp-printing process from the
first Charles III stamp in 1885 to the present day. For more details: https://www.visitmonaco.com Since
1995 the museum has appeared several times on stamps of Monaco, all of which
of course appear in our lists as stamps on stamps:
Scott: #1953, Issued: 8.5.1995
Scott: #2022a, Issued: 14.10.1996
Scott: #2111, Issued: 18.1.1999
Scott: #2255, Issued: 31.5.2002
Scott: #2406, Issued: 30.1.2006
Scott: #3070, Issued: 15.10.2021
As you
can see in the picture, the left side of the entrance to the museum is
engraved with several stamps of Monaco. We managed to identify most of the
stamps (see below), with the main identification done, of course, by Lou
Guadagno, with a some help from Michael Merritt. To this
day we have not been able to identify the right stamp in the first row - this
is a task that now rests on all of us...
Stay
well, Rammy |
![[The 50th Monte Carlo Rally, 1982, type BGB]](The%20first%20page_image030.jpg)
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Lou Guadagno 1967 was
the year I started collecting Stamps on Stamps, and I bought a
set of the three Malaysia Centenary stamps from the Minkus
shop in Gimbel's Department Store as soon as they were available. I lreally liked the colorful, odd-shaped stamps
with their "then and now" SoS.
Some
weeks later, I was visiting another dealer's shop in Manhattan, and
he mentioned he had just gotten his supply of the issue. Before I
could say I already had it, he pulled out his half-sheets, and I was delighted
to see that they showed the stamps were printed tete-beche,
which I had not been aware of before. He said to buy pairs, but I went with
upper left corner blocks of four which showed the unusual layout much
better than two. Years
later, I started to acquire the reproduced stamps to add to my
collection, and sought out the 1867 Straits Settlements and Malaysia 1965
bird stamps. It took almost a year, with buys from three sources.
I found
out that first day covers were created in most of the major cities
of Malaysia and now have seven different such cancels--
I'm showing three. I like to
add a piece or two of commercial mail with SoS to
my collections when I can find them, and especially if they show
foreign destinations, so I was happy to add the two in my last scan. This issue
was one of my earliest SoS acquisitions, but its
pages are an example of the growth of my collection thru the years.
I
hope you enjoyed seeing them, and it gave you some impetus to
expand your own collection. Stay
well, Lou Guadagno |
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The Australia Post celebrated the 90th Anniversary of the
opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge with a limited
edition SoS imperf sheet
folder with an issue of only 120 pieces! Other non-SoS
items are included. See below. With a
cost of AU$49.95, it sold out immediately and one dealer with 113 of
them (why should he have been allowed to buy so many?) is asking for
AU$175.00 each! For a U.S. buyer, if you have to have one and if he will
sell to the U.S., that's only about $120.00
with the current exchange of the tanking AU$. If you are feeling lucky, you
can contact Australia Post and enter a lottery to win the one available
for the original price! No post
should do such a thing to the collectors of their stamps.
Stay well, Lou Guadagno |
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