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Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Dogs: (III) 1978 - Collie (Canis lupus familiaris) - Equatorial Guinea 1978 - Yvert and Tellier: Equatorial Guinea 127-A - my hobby

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Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Dogs: (III) 1978 - Collie (Canis lupus familiaris) - Equatorial Guinea 1978 - Yvert and Tellier: Equatorial Guinea 127-A - my hobby.

*Greetings friends!

*Still, yesterday, we visited in 1984 on the island of Cuba, and today, I decided to take a leap into the past.

*Theoretically, if we move faster than the speed of light in the direction of sunrise, we can go back in time, as science fiction writers believe, we will check it out, lol.

*So let's sail off and head east!

*Flying over the Atlantic, I saw the coast of the western African continent and decided to make a stop for restocking.

*The theory works, we were already in 1978, and the coast belonged to Equatorial Guinea.

*As proof of this journey, I present my trophy, the Dogs: (III) 1978 series of stamps issued in 1978 in Equatorial Guinea.

*On postage stamps from this series, we will see different breeds of dogs.

*On the first postage stamp, 1 Equatorial Guinean ekuele, we see Collie (Canis lupus familiaris).

*This postage stamp has a very peaceful, pink border, almost like a pink flamingo.

*In this I see a reliable business move that was a win-win.

*In 1974, the last episodes of the Hollywood film "Lassie" were released, which tells about a very intelligent collie dog.

*Many children dreamed of having this dog in their room, which means that such a postage stamp will sell well.

*As I said, this postage stamp looks very friendly, but, in this, there is a special cynicism.

*You need to imagine what Equatorial Guinea was like in 1978.

*This is the era of the reign of the "eternal" President Francisco Macias Nguema Biogo Nyege Ndonga.

*Equatorial Guineat survived difficult times, when it was a colony of Portugal, Great Britain and Spain, but, having gained independence in 1968, the country plunged into an even worse situation, from the terrible terror of the new government.

*Everything collapsed, the education and medical system, infrastructure and production, and, in 1978, all the churches in the country were closed.

*A third of the country's population died, or was forced to leave the country, the tyranny was unbearable.

*Under the ban were European names, names of cities, streets and everything that reminded of Europe and the United States.

*So, this postage stamp can tell a lot about the history of this country.

*Let's take a look at this postage stamp.


Information about this postage stamp:


Type: Postage Stamp. Country: Equatorial Guinea. Subject: # Dogs, # Fauna, # Animals, # Nature, # Equatorial Guinea. Series: Dogs: (III) 1978. *Name: Collie (Canis lupus familiaris). Denomination of a postage stamp: 1 Equatorial Guinean ekuele. Yvert and Tellier: Equatorial Guinea 127-A.
Episode release date: 1978. Perforation: comb 14. Postage stamp size: 35.5 x 35.5 mm. Printing technology: Offset lithography. Circulation: ?. Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ ? - $ ?. Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.06 - $ 0.12. Photo: original from @barski collection.

Canceled postage stamp


To be continued!

You can see the development of the story of my postage stamp collection on my Leofinance blog.

Author @barski

Ukraine

I edited a photo in the program PhotoDirector, which I also installed on my smartphone. For my publications, I do not use stock photographs, it is fundamentally important for me to use photographs that I have made with my own hands for publication and I can name them - authorial work.


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