Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Butterflies (1984) - Table Mountain Beauty (Meneris tulbaghia) - Lesotho 1984 - ichel's Lesotho 443 - my hobby

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Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Butterflies (1984) - Table Mountain Beauty (Meneris tulbaghia) - Lesotho 1984 - ichel's Lesotho 443 - my hobby.

Greetings friends!

The pride of the table mountains, the mountain beauty, or Table Mountain Beauty (Meneris tulbaghia), is the name for the magnificent butterfly, which can be called the symbol of the country of Lesotho, because it lives only there and in the South African republic.

We will see this butterfly on the second postage stamp from the Butterflies (1984) series of postage stamps, issued in Lesotho in 1984.

So historically and geographically, South Africa is mentioned every time it comes to Lesotho, a mountainous country surrounded on all sides by an unfriendly neighbor.

The strange thing is that such a small country, like many countries of the African continent, is subject to frequent palace coups, power passes from hand to hand, it is difficult to find peace in such an environment and admire butterflies, lol.

Two years later, after the release of this series of postage stamps, the Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho king will receive full power with full powers, but this will not last long, he will have to flee the country during the next military coup.

Let's take a look at this postage stamp.

Information about this postage stamp:

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Lesotho.
Subject: # Butterflies, # Fauna, # Insects, # Animals, # Nature, # Equatorial Guinea.
Series: Butterflies (1984).
Name: Table Mountain Beauty (Meneris tulbaghia).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 2 Lesotho sente.
Michel's Lesotho catalog code: 443.
Episode release date: January 20, 1984.
Perforation: comb 14.
Postage stamp size: 40 x 30 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: ?.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.23 - $ 0.54.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ ? - $ ?.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean postage stamp

Below, you will see previous postage stamps from this series and links to their descriptions:

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Lesotho.
Subject: # Butterflies, # Fauna, # Insects, # Animals, # Nature, # Equatorial Guinea.
Series: Butterflies (1984).
Name: African Monarch (Danaus chrysippus).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 1 Lesotho sente.
Michel's Lesotho catalog code: 442.
Episode release date: January 20, 1984.
Perforation: comb 14.
Postage stamp size: 40 x 30 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: ?.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.23 - $ 0.54.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ ? - $ ?.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Link to description:

Clean postage stamp

To be continued!

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

Author @barski

Ukraine

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