Postage Due Stamp - Insects 1962 - Flamboyant Flower Beetle (Eudicella gralli), Spotted Flower - Central African Republic 1962 - Michel CF P7-P8 - my hobby

Postage Due Stamp - Insects 1962 - Flamboyant Flower Beetle (Eudicella gralli), Spotted Flower - Central African Republic 1962 - Michel CF P7-P8 - my hobby.

Greetings friends!

You know, until I looked into catalogs of Postage Due Stamps, I was a happy person lol.

I thought that in my collection there is a complete series of Postage Due Stamps issued in the Central African Republic in 1962.

But, to my regret, or, fortunately, I have to replenish this series with six more Postage Due Stamps, only then can I say that my mission is complete and I can proceed to a new assignment.

This feeling is comparable to what I feel when I plan to acquire a thousand miners, but at the most crucial moment, when you have saved up funds for their purchase, their price skyrockets.

It is difficult to call it something stimulating, but it is a new opportunity to go forward, possibly in a different direction.

Today I want to present two Postage Due Stamps that are attached to each other.

Description of the postage stamp:

Type: Postage Due Stamp.
Country: Central African Republic.
Subject: #Fauna, #Animals, #Insects, #Beetles, #TriangleStamps.
Series:Insects 1962.
Name: Flamboyant Flower Beetle (Eudicella gralli), Spotted Flower.
Denomination of a postage stamp: 2x5 FCFA - Central African CFA franc.
Michel's CF catalog code: P7-P8.
Episode release date: September 15, 1962.
Circulation: ? copies.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.20 - $ 0.55.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean Postage Due Stamp:

This beetle Flamboyant Flower Beetle (Eudicella gralli) is similar to our familiar rhinoceros beetle.

Type: Postage Due Stamp.
Country: Central African Republic.
Subject: #Fauna, #Animals, #Insects, #Beetles, #TriangleStamps.
Series:Insects 1962.
Name: Flamboyant Flower Beetle (Eudicella gralli).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 5 FCFA - Central African CFA franc.
Michel's CF catalog code: P7.
Episode release date: September 15, 1962.
Perforation: comb 11.
Postage stamp size: 55 x 28 mm.
Printing technology: Recess.
Circulation: ? copies.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.10 - $ 0.12.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean Postage Due Stamp:

The beetle on this postage stamp looks like the beetle Spotted Flower we saw yesterday, apparently, they wanted to show us all the insects that inhabit Africa.

Type: Postage Due Stamp.
Country: Central African Republic.
Subject: #Fauna, #Animals, #Insects, #Beetles, #TriangleStamps.
Series:Insects 1962.
Name: Spotted Flower.
Denomination of a postage stamp: 5 FCFA - Central African CFA franc.
Michel's CF catalog code: P8.
Episode release date: September 15, 1962.
Perforation: comb 11.
Postage stamp size: 55 x 28 mm.
Printing technology: Recess.
Circulation: ? copies.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.10 - $ 0.12.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean Postage Due Stamp:

Previous postage stamps from this series:

Type: Postage Due Stamp.
Country: Central African Republic.
Subject: #Fauna, #Animals, #Insects, #Beetles, #TriangleStamps.
Series:Insects 1962.
Name: Longhorn Beetle (Ceroplesis sp.), Rose Chafer (Cetonia aurata).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 2x2 FCFA - Central African CFA franc.
Michel's CF catalog code: P5-P6.
Episode release date: September 15, 1962.
Circulation: ? copies.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.20 - $ 0.55.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean Postage Due Stamp:

Type: Postage Due Stamp.
Country: Central African Republic.
Subject: #Fauna, #Animals, #Insects, #Beetles, #TriangleStamps.
Series:Insects 1962.
Name: Centaurus Giant Beetle (Augosoma centaurus), Longhorn Beetle.
Denomination of a postage stamp: 2x1 FCFA - Central African CFA franc.
Michel's CF catalog code: P3-P4.
Episode release date: September 15, 1962.
Circulation: ? copies.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.20 - $ 0.55.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean Postage Due Stamp:

Type: Postage Due Stamp.
Country: Central African Republic.
Subject: #Fauna, #Animals, #Insects, #Beetles, #TriangleStamps.
Series:Insects 1962.
Name: Jewel Longhorn Beetle (Sternotomis gama).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 0,50 FCFA - Central African CFA franc.
Michel's CF catalog code: P1.
Episode release date: September 15, 1962.
Perforation: comb 11.
Postage stamp size: 55 x 28 mm.
Printing technology: Recess.
Circulation: ? copies.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.10 - $ 0.12.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean Postage Due Stamp:

Important!

1. Please note that the cost of shipping postage stamps to other countries can be many times more expensive than the postage stamp itself, approximately $ 5.5.

2. I see that it is not profitable to purchase one postage stamp if, suddenly, you need to replenish your collection. It is always more profitable to purchase the entire series, and, surplus, to change, or sell.

3. If you decide to buy a postage stamp online, be careful. sometimes sellers use stock images. But this option is unacceptable. You need to see exactly the product that you are buying.

4. If you are afraid that the postage stamp sellers will want to deceive you, you are doing the right thing, do not doubt it.

5. To get started with this hobby, buy a good magnifying glass, tweezers with flat and thin edges and a stockbook for postage stamps, they will come in handy.

6. When buying postage stamps, pay special attention to the back of the postage stamp. The adhesive layer must not be damaged.

7. There is such an expression - How many people, so many opinions, this also applies to sellers of postage stamps. Each of them believes that his postage stamp is in perfect condition, but only you yourself can find the perfect postage stamp for yourself.

8. Sometimes, a small, white scrap of paper with a round stamp on it and a number inscribed in the center circle can be a very valuable postage stamp from the days when postage stamps were not printed.

9. The cost of a postage stamp is determined by supply and demand, but usually in catalogs you can see the estimated cost of a postage stamp in Pounds Sterling.

10. In terms of quality, postage stamps can be divided into three groups: used postage stamps that were pasted on and removed from the envelope, canceled postage stamps that were canceled at the post office, by order and sent for sale, and clean, uncanceled postage stamps. As you can imagine, these three types of postage stamps, their conditions, greatly affect their value.

To be continued.

You can see the development of the story of my postage stamp collection on my Leofinance blog

I edited a photo in the program PhotoDirector, which I also installed on my smartphone.

Author @barski
Ukraine

For my publications, I do not use stock photographs, it is fundamentally important for me to use photographs that I have made with my own hands for publication and I can name them - authorial work.

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