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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Postage stamps of Panama and my collection

6:34 AM Jalal HB 2 comments

Panama is known mostly known for the Panama canal rather than any other important places inside Panama. The famous 77 kilometres long Panama Canal joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The canal was built in ten year from 1904 to 1914 and carries almost a thousand ships through it every year. A ship sailing from New York to San Francisco via the canal travels 9,500 km, saving on some 1,300 kilometers if it travelled around Cape Horn.

The U.S. controlled the canal and the Canal Zone surrounding it until the 1977. Thereafter it went under the joint administration of the USA and Panama. Later from 31 December 1999 command of the waterway was assumed by the Panama Canal Authority, an agency of the Panamanian government.

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As for Panama, it is republic and is the southernmost country of the Central America, with Panama City as its capital. Panama is joined with Costa Rica in the west and Colombia in the east. Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903 and became an independent country. Panama has the third or fourth largest economy in Central America because of its rapidly growing economy and the largest per capita consumer in Central America. Panama has the largest rainforest in the Western Hemisphere outside the Amazon Basin and its jungle is home to an abundance of tropical plants, animals and birds - some of them to be found nowhere else in the world.

On 24^th June 1904, a postal service was established as part of the Department of Revenues and under the supervision of the Treasurer of the Canal Zone. The postal service was initially designed to handle ordinary mail. Later mail for Central and South America and the West Indies was turned over to the Panama Postal Service for dispatch to destinations and mail for other foreign countries and the United States. Upon establishment of the canal Zone postal services, Panamanian stamps worth 2, 5 and 10 cents were over printed with “Canal Zone” and used till July 1904. Thereafter the US stamps with Canal Zone overprints were used till December 1904. Thereafter the Panamanian stamps with the overprint started to be used.

I have only five stamps in my collection of Panama as shown above, that are from late 1950 to 1970.

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A page from my stamp album - Argentina

6:16 PM Jalal HB No comments

Argentina is the second largest country in South America, after Brazil. With capital at Buenos Aires, it is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area. It borders Paraguay and Bolivia to the north, Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast, and Chile to the west and south. It is one of South America's largest economies. Argentina is a founding member of the United Nations besides being one of the G-20 major economies.

The earliest evidence of humans in Argentina dates from 11,000 BC and was found in Patagonia but in modern times, we hear mention of Argentina as 1602. Argentina got its independence from Spain in 1816. The first formal use of the name Argentine was in the 1826 constitution. Argentina increased in prosperity and prominence between 1880 and 1929 and emerged as one of the ten richest countries in the world.

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The first postage stamp of Argentine as a nation was issued in 1862 by the National Postal Service, a federal entity established in 1854. My small collection of stamps as shown above has stamps of from 1935 later.

The first stamp on the top of the left row is that of former President Bernardino Rivadavia, printed in 1935.

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My collection of stamps of Brazil

6:03 PM Jalal HB No comments

I don’t have many stamps of Brazil, but the few that I have date back to late 50s and early 60s. The stamps above were printed and put to sale between 1954-1963, bearing photos of some of the legends of Brazil.

The first stamp on the left is that of Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, the Duke of Caxias (August 25, 1803 – May 7, 1880) who was a Brazilian military leader and statesman. He was a leader of the Conservative Party and on more than one occasion served as Prime Minister of the Brazilian Empire.

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The remaining four stamps are that of Ruy Barbosa de Oliveira (November 5, 1849 — March 1, 1923), who was a Brazilian writer, jurist, and politician. Ruy Barbosa was also a federal representative, senator, Minister of Finance and diplomat. For his distinguished participation in the Hague Peace Conference of 1907, he earned the nickname "Eagle of the Hague".

These stamps are a part of a long series bearing heads of some of the famous people that are being remembered as legends even today.