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Panterra ![]() Recorded ![]() ![]() Joined: 01 April 2017 Location: Auckland, NZ Status: Offline Points: 232 |
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The Republic of Raoul has issued its first new stamp for some time, and the first commemorative under the rule of its enlightened new leader, President Terry Dell. This one celebrates the freeing of the slaves. Slavery was the mainstay of the old regime. Date of issue is 6th February 2021. Contemporary slavery, also known as modern slavery, refers to institutional slavery that continues to occur in present-day society. Estimates of the number of slaves today range from around 38 million to 46 million, depending on the method used to form the estimate & the definition of slavery being used. The estimated number of slaves is debated, as there is no universally agreed definition of modern slavery; those in slavery are often difficult to identify, & adequate statistics are often not available. The International Labour Organization estimates that, by their definitions, over 40 million people are in some form of slavery today. 24.9 million people are in forced labor, of whom 16 million people are exploited in the private sector such as domestic work, construction or agriculture; 4.8 million persons in forced sexual exploitation, & 4 million persons in forced labor imposed by state authorities. 15.4 million people are in forced marriage. Thailand's billion-dollar fish export industry remains plagued with human rights maltreatment in spite of government vows to stamp out servitude in its angling industry. Human Rights Watch conducted interviews with 248 fishermen, it documented the forced labor of trafficked workers in the Thai fishing industry. Trafficking victims are often tricked by brokers' false promises of "good" factory jobs, then forced onto fishing boats where they are trapped, bought & sold like livestock, & held against their will for months or years at a time, forced to work grueling 22-hour days in dangerous conditions. Those who resist or try to run away are beaten, tortured, & often killed. This is commonplace because of the disposability of unfree laborers. The white Mongolian vertical script down the left side of the stamp says " |
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Panterra ![]() Recorded ![]() ![]() Joined: 01 April 2017 Location: Auckland, NZ Status: Offline Points: 232 |
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One of my heroes is
Chester Carlson.
As I wished to honour the inventor of the xerox, I
did a set of stamps way back in 1989 titled
"Great Print
Inventors", which also featured Ottmar Mergenthaler:
![]() Occussi-Ambeno 1989 Great Print Inventors set.
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Panterra ![]() Recorded ![]() ![]() Joined: 01 April 2017 Location: Auckland, NZ Status: Offline Points: 232 |
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Here is an earlier issue from Occussi-Ambeno, the 2017 stamp celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
![]() Occussi-Ambeno 2017 Luther & the Reformation, 500th anniversary. The stamp was printed digitally on thick white paper without watermark, and perf 12. The design shows a photograph of the great reformer Martin Luther, and at the foot is his signature. The stamps were issued in small sheetlets of ten, with inscribed margins. Due to Occussi-Ambeno being a predominantly Moslem land, the stamp was not a success. The population shunned them, and even today, mint ones remain very common, with postally-used ones (despite it being the inland letter rate value) being quite elusive.
![]() Occussi-Ambeno 2017 Luther & the Reformation, 500th anniversary, full sheet. |
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Panterra ![]() Recorded ![]() ![]() Joined: 01 April 2017 Location: Auckland, NZ Status: Offline Points: 232 |
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![]() Waikoa Island 2016 Christmas stamp, showing Raphael's "Alba Madonna." Merry Christmas everyone!
Some folks have inquired why Waikoa Island hasn't done any more recent Xmas stamps. The answer: due to widespread decline in posting of Xmas Cards as folk seem to prefer to do "emailed cards", the leftover 2016 Xmas stamps continue to be offered in the Post Office every year since then. |
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Panterra ![]() Recorded ![]() ![]() Joined: 01 April 2017 Location: Auckland, NZ Status: Offline Points: 232 |
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It is great news to hear that the Waikoa Island Post Office is planning a new issue to promote philately. They just announced this new issue last Friday:
![]() Waikoa Island 2020 Stamp Collecting Month, minisheet. .·:*¨¨*:·..·:*¨¨*:·..·:*¨¨*:·. |
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Panterra ![]() Recorded ![]() ![]() Joined: 01 April 2017 Location: Auckland, NZ Status: Offline Points: 232 |
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A funny tale concerning the
Waikoa
Island "Maggie Mailbox"
stamp, which has been frequently discussed in the
past on this thread.
Craft printers in New Zealand have been invited to submit printed posters for an exhibition to be held in Christchurch, opening later this month, thence to tour the country. The Love Letters Exhibition follows on from a similar successful exhibition in Auckland back in 2018. For the 2018 exhibition, they sought large-size posters (between A3 and A2 size), with letterpress printing involved. As I usually do smaller posters than that, mostly A5 (210 mm x 148 mm), that restricted me a bit, so I entered my 2017 Mevu tourism poster (A3 size, the page size of a normal tabloid newspaper) as my entry. This is a digital print, but with letterpress red metallic bronzing to create the Mevu crest in the lower right corner. ![]() Mevu tourism poster, published by the Ministry of Commerce, Mevu. This is the A4 printed version, with the crest in brown, used as a full-page colour advertisement in the UK magazine "The Cinderella Philatelist". For this year's exhibition, I decided to upgrade the Mevu tourism poster, so printed a small number of a new version, which includes one of the significant 50th anniversary of independence commemoratives, and the 2,000 reis fiscal stamp. ![]() Mevu tourism poster, 2020 version, published by the Ministry of Commerce, Mevu. Note the 2,000 reis fiscal stamp, and the crest in gold at lower right. I paid my entry fee, posted down the poster in time for the deadline (end of July), and the curator confirmed he had received it. But a day later, I got an email from the curator saying he refused to include it, as it was identical with my work in the 2018 exhibition. I protested, and called attention to the fact that this is the 2020 version, as can be proved from having 2020 stamps shown. He still refused to include it, and said he would refund my entry fee and post back my poster. I asked if I could submit a replacement, which he agreed to, "as long as it reaches here promptly." Then I got an idea. ![]() He sent me a scan, and I see the NZ stamps to get it delivered have not been cancelled, as is usual these days. So my efforts to do a nice cover have paid off, with the cover being exhibited, rather than the contents! ![]() Waikoa Island 2020 Lettter Writing Week FDC, sent to the Love Letters Exhibition in Christchurch. Terms of this exhibition are that exhibitors do not get their artworks returned: they all become part of the Ferrymead Museum collection. Aren't you glad stamp exhibitions don't have such curious conditions‽ I seem to have circumvented that proviso, being the sole artist whose entry is being returned, while the Maggie Mailbox cover, accompanied by a million-dollar revenue stamp (which I assumed would end up in the trash) is being kept for posterity by the Museum. Maggie rules! — oh frabjous day! Sic arte versatur. |
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Or Marijuana on Penguin? ![]() Mevu 2020 Marijuana Tax overprint on 2019 fiscal stamp.
The 7¼ reis stamp (mainly used for Marijuana Tax) was recently issued with an appropriate overprint. Rs 7.25, Orange & green . . . Marijuana tax. (Must be affixed to every half-ounce bag of cannabis sold.) The basic stamp is printed in fluorescent orange, which does not take kindly to being scanned, and here seems a pale pink. If you recall the bright fluoro orange supplied to paint model aircraft, it is the exact match! Should we describe this as a Penguin on Marijuana? Or Marijuana on Penguin? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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I like the image of that Cherokee. Indeed, it is "A fine aircraft." StampHinger
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