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Paraguay 1979 Sir Rowland Hill Death Centenary Sc 1889-91 and 75th Anniversary of civil aviation and Anniversary of ICAO Stamps Set featuring the Inverted Jenny

Issue date 11 June 1979 

Stamp-on-stamp reproducing United States issued on 13 May 1918 for the re‑opening of the postal service line New York – Philadelphia – Washington; Curtiss Jenny Invert.

Sir Rowland Hill’s picture on the stamp. Overprinted by ICAO emblem surrounded by the text: 75o ANIVERSARIO DE O.A.C.I.

Other Stamps featured in the Stamps set are described below

Stamp-on-stamp reproducing  Newfoundland’s first air mail stamp issued on 12 April 1919 further to a surcharge of  Newfoundland  (issued on 2 January 1919 to commemorate the Services of Newfoundland Regiment in WW1 during the battle of Gueudecourt) with "FIRST TRANS-  ATLANTIC AIR POST April, 1919". Sir Rowland Hill’s picture on the stamp. Overprinted by ICAO emblem surrounded by the text: 75o ANIVERSARIO DE O.A.C.I.

More information can be obtained for this stamp on the following link http://legacy.icao.int/icao/en/adb/wla/libar/19144.pdf

Stamp-on-stamp reproducing France (1936) showing the Caudron C-635 Simoun airplane from the Air Bleu Postal services over Paris; the word POSTES is shown under the left wing.

Sir Rowland Hill’s picture on the stamp. Overprinted by ICAO emblem surrounded by the text: 75o ANIVERSARIO DE O.A.C.I.

Stamp-on-stamp reproducing Spain issued on 15 April 1938 to commemorate the Defenders of Madrid.

Sir Rowland Hill’s picture on the stamp. Overprinted by ICAO emblem surrounded by the text: 75o ANIVERSARIO DE O.A.C.I.

Stamp-on-stamp reproducing Ecuador unlisted stamp (28 August 1928) overprinted from Columbia (issued in 1923 by the Colombian Airline Sociedad Colombo‑Alemana de Transportes Aéreos, SCADTA) showing a seaplane over Magdalena River and the Andes.

Sir Rowland Hill’s picture on the stamp. Overprinted by ICAO emblem surrounded by the text: 75o ANIVERSARIO DE O.A.C.I.

Stamp-on-stamp reproducing Deutsches Reich Michel #IV K issued on 10 June 1912, with the overprint in dark blue "Gelber Hund" (Yellow Dog) and the surcharge of "-‑1M‑-", for mail carried by the airmail plane Gelber Hund; the inverted overprint and surcharge are a rarity. Issued on the same day, the original stamp of 10 pfg is a semi-official air mail stamp to frank mail carried on an experimental flight from Darmstadt to Munich, Bavaria; it is inscribed Erste Deutsche Luftpost am Rhein and shows a pigeon carrying mail.

Sir Rowland Hill’s picture on the stamp. Overprinted by ICAO emblem surrounded by the text: 75o ANIVERSARIO DE O.A.C.I.

Stamp-on-stamp reproducing Switzerland issued in 1935 with inverted surcharge "10" and bars in black. The original stamp was issued on 2 February 1932 to commemorate the International Disarmament Conference (Conference on the Reduction and Limitation of Arms) held in Geneva from 2 February to July 1932 and shows a front view of airplane.

Sir Rowland Hill’s picture on the stamp. Overprinted by ICAO emblem surrounded by the text: 75o ANIVERSARIO DE O.A.C.I.

Stamp-on-stamp reproducing Brazil private issue of the LUFTSCHIFFBAU ZEPPELIN GmgH., Friedrichshaven, for the 1930 LZ-127 Zeppelin South-American commercial flight between Brazil and Europe, surcharged on 25 May 1930 with handstamp print of 5(000) reis. Only 13 stamps were surcharged.

Sir Rowland Hill’s picture on the stamp. Overprinted by ICAO emblem surrounded by the text: 75o ANIVERSARIO DE O.A.C.I. Air mail stamp.

Stamp-on-stamp reproducing Paraguay (issued on 5 May 1933, Graf Zeppelin flight to South America,; original colour is brown) and Paraguay (issued on 13 April 1935, with changed colour from the original stamp ‑ brown to violet ‑ and “1935” overprinted in black).

Sir Rowland Hill’s picture on the stamp. Overprinted by ICAO emblem surrounded by the text: 75o ANIVERSARIO DE O.A.C.I. Air mail stamp.

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