Seventeen days ago, I published the first installment of my postage stamp collection, showing the most interesting and attractive specimens, related to different topics.
This is the 10th publication that I dedicate to Venezuela in general and the stamps of Simón Bolívar do not appear in it, since I dedicated the second one to him, which you can see here:
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Today we dedicate it to diverse and interesting topics.
10th anniversary of the Humboldt Planetarium, the Earth, the Sun, Saturn, and Neptune. Surely it was an edition with all the planets in the solar system, but I only have these.
Children's Festival, an institutional celebration related to the first lady of the republic and possibly one of the largest stamps in my collection.
Some personalities and a stamp with an unusual shape, a rhombus.
I imagine the juggling process to stick it to the envelope, without covering up the address.
More large stamps, inviting citizens to pay taxes. 70s and 80s
Get to know Venezuela first, a program to encourage domestic tourism and promote different regions. Carúpano and the island of Margarita in the eastern region, in Caracas, the Humboldt hotel in Ávila and its cable car.
United States of Venezuela, July 5, 1947.
Possibly the oldest in the Venezuelan collection.
Centennial of the Universal Postal Union, 1974 and The Venezuelan pavilion at the New York World's Fair.
All the same, different colors and values, with the facade of the main post office in Caracas. Main headquarters of the postal service of Venezuela.
I remember visiting it in the 70s to pick up a postal package that my family sent from Spain and required a prior payment of customs duties. The postman only delivered a notification with the amount to be paid and instructions for making the pick-up.
Finally, the most beautiful, in my opinion.
Maps of the states that constitute the republic.
I would have liked to have them all to put them together, forming a map of the entire country.
In these folders he kept the stamps and to take them out and insert them I used tweezers. To observe them in detail, a magnifying glass is used and professionals use a thread counter that allows them to observe the smallest details, since for philatelists they count even the teeth of the climb where they are separated from the parent sheet.
My language is Spanish and I use Google Translate to write this post.
Thanks for visiting and reading.