Aerial Views - Sunday Stamps II

This is yet another theme that proved harder than I thought. 

So much so, in fact, that initially I could only come up with these - not really true aerial shots at all.

USA - Jet Liner over Capitol - 5 December 1962

And from Poland a stamp commemorating the development of air travel.

Poland - 27 November 1978

I googled aerial views and found that of the many stamp images I had only one in my collection and that from 1969.

Spain - Gibraltar - 16 July 1969

I shall have to study what others have posted this week at Sunday-stamps-II-134. to see whether there are different stamps that I could/should have posted.

Gibraltar and Victory - Sunday Stamps

Horatio Nelson died at 1630 on 21 October 1805 on board HMS Victory. He had been shot on board by a French sniper during the Battle of Trafalgar.

Gibraltar issued a set of stamps to commemorate the 175th anniversary of his death.

This painting shows the Victory, with Nelson's body on board, being towed into Gibraltar for repairs after the battle. The famous Rock is unmistakable.

The four stamps issued in 1980 include one of the painting.

It shouldn't be too hard for you to work out where I found the sheet and the set of stamps. It wasn't under a rock.

To see what others have chosen please follow the links at Viridian's Sunday-stamps-172.

From A Rock to Art Nouveau - Sunday Stamps

Gibraltar

Gibraltar is an important naval base and a British territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. The Rock of Gibraltar is its major landmark, It is said that the British will leave Gibraltar when the Barbary apes leave The Rock. Ceded to Britain by Spain in 1713 sovereignty of Gibraltar remains a point of contention between the two countries.

Germany

Jugendstil is an artistic style that arose in Germany in the 1890s and continued through the first decade of the 20th Century. Its name derives from the Munich magazine Die Jugend ("Youth") which featured Art Nouveau designs.

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