Free Album Pages

I am teaching myself Latex which is used to professionally typeset documents and thought what better way to teach my self than to develop album pages with it.

As a bonus I figure I will offer the pages to those who read/stumble across my blog.

The first set of pages are for Great Britain's stamps issued during the reign of King George the V.

Here are images of the 5 pages:

I have removed the catalouge number so I don't infringe on any copyrights. The pages can be downloaded in .PDF format from here.

The next set on up for takes (again for free) are the pages I designed for US Postage dues. These pages are based on the 2005 Stanley Gibbons "Stamps of the World".

Here are images of the 3 pages:

 

 

 

You can grab these here.

 

The Botswana National Museum turns 40

In 2008 the postal authority of Botswana issued a set of 5 stamps to commemorate the 40th anniversary of their national museum and art gallery.
 
The museum was established by an act of parliament  in 1967 and is located in the Botswanan capital of Gaborone.  For the 40th anniversary the museum mirrored the International Council of Museums banner of "Museum as Agents of Social Change and Development"

Celebrating Cape Verde's Merchant fleet.

On November 30, 1980 the island nation of Cape Verde issued 5 ship themed stamps.  The stamps were printed using lithography and were perforated 12.5 x 12.

Inscribed "Flota Mercante" the stamps were issued to commemorate the Merchant Fleet serving the islands.

Arca Verde

On the 3 Escudo stamp the Arca Verde is pictured.   She was built in Norway and completed in 1955 as the Herlaug II.  Powered by 1, 8 cylinder BMV diesel engine producing 400 bhp and capable of carrying 150 passengers. 

Christmas Exhibit

It is time for another exhibit at http://www.stampbears.net, for December I went with a more traditional theme.  So please see below for what I came up with.

An interesting acquisition

Here is an interesting item that I acquired recently in a Box lot I received.

It is the first cover I have that is from Buckingham Palace and I was immediately intrigued by it. When I opened it up and saw the contents I was pleasantly surprised to find the contents of the envelope still intact.

So what I have found out so far is that the Reverend D.B. Rogers was a member of the Anglican Church of Canada and served as a member of various committees including the education and publishing committee.  I am still looking for more information on him.

The person who signed the letter is Michael Adeane, Lt. Col, who was the Queen's private secretary for the first twenty years of her reign. It is interesting that he was aide-de-camp to Lord Bessborough and Lord Tweedsmuir who were Governors General of Canada during the depression.

All in all I was very impressed with this find.

The MS Sirdhana

The 60h stamp issued by the Emirate of Dubai to commemorate 60 years of postal service depicts the motor ship Sirdhana.

The Sirdhana was built in 1947 by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson for the British India Steam Navigation Company. Displacing 8,608 gross tons she had a length overall of 425' with a breadth of 62.7'.

The Sirdhana's 2 oil powered engines gave her a speed of 14½ knots

Posted from GScribble.

Motor Ship Selandia

On June 14, 1962 Denmark issued a stamp to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Motor Ship Selandia. The Selandia is often referred to as the the worlds first diesel powered ship.