As there is no Sunday Stamp theme this week I went looking for another source of stamps by raiding a collection of postcards that have accumulated over the last 30 years or so.
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| Rio de Janeiro - Sunrise on Copacabana Beach |
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| Brazil |
Both the stamps were issued originally in 1982 although the card is clearly postmarked 1984.
The top two stamps show the Mamona or Castor Oil Plant; The bottom stamp shows ears of Trigo (wheat). Brazil is the third largest producer of castor oil behind India and China.
From France I found two different denominations of the same Marianne.
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| France |
François Mitterrand became the 1st Socialist President of the Fifth Republic on 10 May 1981. However the Marianne on these stamps is that used during the presidency of his predecessor, Valéry Giscard d-Estaing.
This is the Gandon Sabine Marianne by the stamp engraver Pierre Gandon inspired by a painting by Jacques-Louis David,
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| The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799) |
'Mitterand's' Gandon Liberté Marianne did not appear until 1982.
Both the postcards with these stamps were to my daughter.
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| The Côte d'Azur |
The card from Paris just had to be from my eldest son to his sister
because the message ended, 'Il me plait que tu n'es pas ici!!' This is a long standing family joke even if it was in French.
2 comments:
great Rio greenygrey, and nice collection. Thanks Bob.
Never thought about it but I didn't realise castor oil came from a plant. I have a postcard collection in scrap books, wonder what stamps they would reveal. Love the comment from brother to sister. Much better than the ubiquitous "wish you were here".
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