tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post5738325296407183141..comments2024-03-23T04:12:08.762-07:00Comments on Big Blue 1840-1940: NigeriaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-6586170278839297362014-07-09T21:12:16.249-07:002014-07-09T21:12:16.249-07:00Welcome Postmail, and greetings to Brazil. I don&#...Welcome Postmail, and greetings to Brazil. I don't collect Revenues, as I have more than enough to collect already, but I do appreciate their engraving and beauty.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-83990278198829162922014-07-09T19:44:02.960-07:002014-07-09T19:44:02.960-07:00I was surfing the web and found your beautiful blo...I was surfing the web and found your beautiful blog, I was reading your posts on the definitive stamps of Brazil 1920-41, is a really interesting and with many varieties series,'m Brazilian collector and philatelist, and my theme is Revenues stamps, but I stamps available this series and some cataloged when desired can make contact, greetingsPOSTMAILhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13191532140085013568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-72337379814694698482014-07-06T18:22:54.078-07:002014-07-06T18:22:54.078-07:00George V, no doubt would have enjoyed this set. He...George V, no doubt would have enjoyed this set. He had passed away by the time the set was issued. I suspect that the lovely pictorials, seen at the end of George V reign, may have been in homage to the stamp collector-King.<br /><br />Better late than never. ;-)Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-31781289871656365802014-07-06T12:51:02.984-07:002014-07-06T12:51:02.984-07:00It really is too bad the British were so late to a...It really is too bad the British were so late to adopting pictoral definitives for their colonial holdings, the George V issue from Nigeria is such a beautiful example of what could have been possible for all the colonies much earlier, as was the case in the French colonial world. Of course, production costs would have been more, and as the cost of producing the stamps likely would have been left to the colonies themselves, the cheap route is the one most of them would take. It's not that the French were more generous though, but they did seem to realize the financial potential of philatelic sales to collectors for the colonies much more quickly than the British colonies. DJCMHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com