Cloth Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Cloth Stamps

Gambia 2014 Diamond Anniversary

Issue Date 11 August 2014

On the Diamond Anniversary of the Queen’s coronation Gambia Post has issued a special cloth stamp in the form of a badge.


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Cloth Stamps - Update

Category - Touch
Subcategory - Cloth Stamps

Gambia 2003 Teddy Bear 

Issue date 28 April 2003

Embroidered teddy bear stamp set was issued by different countries: Gambia, Grenada, Grenada& Petite Martinique, Sierra Leone and St Vincent Grenadines. These cloth stamps honor the humble teddy bear. The above Teddy Bear stamp is from Gambia.


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Photomosiac Stamps - Update

Category - Sight
Subcategory - Photomosaic Stamp

Gambia 1999 Princess Diana "A World of Peace and Understanding" 

Issue date - 31 December 1999 

As part of the Millenium series of Photomosaic Stamps featuring Princess Diana issued by many countries celebrating the end of the Millenium, this sheet of stamps features the mosaic of Princess Diana. The photomosaic sheet contains small pictures of flowers which together makes the larger picture of the face of Princess Diana.

The Gambia souvenir sheets features the sentence "A World of Peace and Understanding".

Each sheet utilizes the technique of  "Photomosaics", which is a method of arranging thousands of tiny photographs that when viewed from a distance, combine to form a single larger image, the picture of the face of Princess Diana.

The sheets commemorate both the Millennium and the remembrance of the life of Diana, Princess of Wales.

The nine countries which have issued the photomosiacs are: The Dominica, Gambia, Grenada, Guyana, Micronesia, Nevis, Sierra Leone, St. Vincent, and Zambia.

The sheets measures a large 6½" x 9¾" and all were issued on December 31, 1999.

They are titled

Dominica - "A World of Sharing"

Gambia - "A World of Peace & Understanding",

Grenada - "A World Where Children are Treasured",

Guyana -"A World of Tolerance & Understanding",

Nevis - "A World Where Children Can Learn & Grow",

Micronesia - Numbered 62293,

Sierra Leone - "A Future of Hope",

St.Vincent - "A World Free of Poverty, A World for Rich and Poor",

Zambia - "A Future Free of Hunger & Want",

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Stamps featuring Inverts - Update

Category Sight
Subcategory - Stamps on Stamps  - Inverts

Gambia 2004 Rare and Famous Postage Stamps miniature sheet featuring the inverted Jenny

Issue date 04 June 2004

The miniature sheet issued by Gambia Post features a Stamp on Stamp of the Inverted Jenny which is one of the category under which this miniature sheet is filed.

The Inverted Jenny (also known as an Upside Down Jenny or Jenny Invert) is a United States postage stamp first issued on May 10, 1918 in which the image of the Curtiss JN-4 airplane in the center of the design appears upside-down; it is probably the most famous error in American philately. Only one pane of 100 of the invert stamps was ever found, making this error one of the most prized in all philately. 

The British Guiana 1c magenta is regarded by many philatelists as the world's most famous stamp. It was issued in limited numbers in British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1856, and only one specimen is now known to exist.

The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It was issued in Britain on 1 May 1840, for official use from 6 May of 1840.
The idea of an adhesive stamp to indicate pre-payment of postage was part of Sir Rowland Hill's 1837 proposals to reform the British postal system; it was normal then for the recipient to pay postage on delivery. A companion idea, which Hill disclosed on 13 February 1837 at a government enquiry, was that of a separate sheet that folded to form an enclosure or envelope for carrying letters. At that time postage was charged by the sheet and on the distance traveled.

The Benjamin Franklin Z Grill, or simply "Z-Grill", is a 1-cent postage stamp issued by the United States Postal Service in February 1868 depicting Benjamin Franklin. While stamps of this design were the common 1-cent stamps of the 1860s, the Z-Grill is distinguished by having the so-called "Z" variety of a grill pressed into the stamp, creating tiny indentations in the paper. The 1-cent Z-Grill is generally cited as the rarest and most valuable of all US postage stamps.

There are currently only two known 1-cent 1868 Z-Grills, both with cancellation marks. One is owned by the New York Public Library as part of the Benjamin Miller Collection. This leaves only a single 1-cent 1868 Z-Grill in private hands.

5-cent red brown stamp depicting Benjamin Franklin (the first postmaster of the U.S.) - The first U.S. Postage stamp issues were authorized by an act of US Congress and approved on March 3, 1847. The earliest known use of the Franklin 5¢ is July 7, 1847.

This stamp were declared invalid for postage on July 1, 1851.

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