Showing posts with label buildings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buildings. Show all posts

Building Pakistan postage, Rs.2 (two rupees), orange, stamp, 1961

country: Pakistan postage
topic: Building
theme: Buildings
type of stamp: postal stamp
color: Orange
year: 1961
postal value: Rs. 2 (2 rupees)
designer: ?
What building is depicted on the stamp?

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Building, red, R.1 (1961)
Building, red, R.1 Service (1961)
Building, orange, Rs.2 (1961)

Building Pakistan postage SERVICE (Regular without WM Series Die I), R.1 (one rupee), red, stamp, 1961

country: Pakistan postage
topic: Building (SERVICE, Regular without WM Series Die I)
theme: Buildings
type of stamp: postal stamp
color: Red
year: 1961
postal value: R. 1 (1 rupee)
designer: ?
What building is depicted on the stamp?

More from the same series:
Building, red, R.1 (1961)
Building, red, R.1 Service (1961)
Building, orange, Rs.2 (1961)

Building Pakistan postage, R.1 (one rupee), red, stamp, 1961

country: Pakistan postage
topic: Building
theme: Buildings
type of stamp: postal stamp
color: Red
year: 1961
postal value: R. 1 (1 rupee)
designer: ?
What building is depicted on the stamp?

More from the same series:
Building, red, R.1 (1961)
Building, red, R.1 Service (1961)
Building, orange, Rs.2 (1961)

Cape Coast Castle, Republic of Ghana stamp, c 100

country: Republic of Ghana
topic: Cape Coast Castle
theme: buildings
type of stamp: postal stamp
color: multicolored
postal value: c 100

Information:
Cape Coast Castle is a fortification in Ghana built by Swedish traders. The first timber construction on the site was erected in 1653 for the Swedish Africa Company and named Carolusborg after King Charles X of Sweden. It was later rebuilt in stone.
In April 1663 the whole Swedish Gold Coast was seized by the Danes, and integrated in the Danish Gold Coast. In 1664 the Castle was conquered by the English and was extensively rebuilt by the Committee of Merchants (whose Governors administered the entire British colony) in the late 18th century. It became the seat of the colonial Government of the British Gold Coast in 1844.
The Castle was built for trading timber and gold. Later, the structure was used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade (also know as the Slave Castle of Cape Coast). The Castle, was first restored in the 1920's by the British Public Works Department. (source: Wikipedia, read more about Cape Coast Cast on Wikipedia)

PLZEN, Ceska Republika, Czech Republic stamp, 5 Kc 5, buildings, town, green, Plzeň Region, Plzeňský kraj

country: Ceska Republika
             (Czech Republic)
topic: PLZEN
theme: buildings, town
type of stamp: postal stamp
color : green
year: ?
postal value: Kc 5
designer: ?

Information:
The Plzeň Region (Czech: Plzeňský kraj) is an administrative unit (kraj) in the western part of Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It is named after its capital Plzeň (German: Pilsen). (source: Wikipedia, See more about the Plzen region on Wikipedia)

Dique "El Nihuil", Aqueduct, Building, Argentina, Casa De Moneda De La Nacion / Cerichelli GR, 3 Pesos

country: Argentina
topic: Dique "El Nihuil"
theme: Aqueduct, Building
type of stamp: postal stamp
color: dark purple grey
design: R. Garrasi
postal value: 3 Pesos
comments: Casa De Moneda De La Nacion / Cerichelli GR

Information:
The dam "El Nihuil" whose approval was given for 1948 has been finished 1 year earlier. The irrigators of San Rafael and General Alvear, asked to hasten the date of clearance of the dam because of great need of water for productions. The dam was finished and in use by December 1947 but the official opening took place on January 11, 1948. Seven years before, the province had approved an agreement with the Nation which would build a dam on the river Atuel feet above the Falls of the Nihuil. The dam caused a lake of 9,600 hectares and can feed powerful hydraulic plants throughout the system.

Siedem Wiekow Warszawy - Ratusz Staromiejski Z Konca XVIII Wieku, Poland (Polska) stamp, 40 to 50 GR

country: Poland (Polska)
topic: Siedem Wiekow Warszawy - Ratusz Staromiejski Z Konca XVIII Wieku
theme: buildings
type of stamp: postal stamp
design: J. Willer - CZ Kaczmarczym
color: brown
year: 1965
postal value: 50 GR (from 40 GR)

Information:
Ratysz Staromis Jskri end of the XVII Century.
The history of Warsaw, the capital and later the largest Polish cities, dating back even the twelfth or thirteenth century, when the oldest historically stood in the former Warsaw court of the dukes of Mazovia Jazdów (now Ujazdów (Warsaw)). Assigning seniority grodowi appearing in the current Forest Brodnowski is abuse, because the land did not belong to BRÓDNO the city of Warsaw until 1916 and did not assist with the development of the city. Over the centuries the city experienced glorious years, but it became on the verge of total destruction for several times. The basic urban layout of today's Warsaw was formed during the reconstruction of the great devastation after World War II. (source: Wikipedia, read more about Siedem Wiekow Warszawy on Wikipedia)
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