Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Dogs: (III) 1978 - Collie (Canis lupus familiaris) - Equatorial Guinea 1978 - Yvert and Tellier: Equatorial Guinea 127-A - my hobby

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Travel the World of Postage Stamps - Dogs: (III) 1978 - Collie (Canis lupus familiaris) - Equatorial Guinea 1978 - Yvert and Tellier: Equatorial Guinea 127-A - my hobby.

Greetings friends!

Still, yesterday, we visited in 1984 on the island of Cuba, and today, I decided to take a leap into the past.

Theoretically, if we move faster than the speed of light in the direction of sunrise, we can go back in time, as science fiction writers believe, we will check it out, lol.

So let's sail off and head east!

Flying over the Atlantic, I saw the coast of the western African continent and decided to make a stop for restocking.

The theory works, we were already in 1978, and the coast belonged to Equatorial Guinea.

As proof of this journey, I present my trophy, the Dogs: (III) 1978 series of stamps issued in 1978 in Equatorial Guinea.

On postage stamps from this series, we will see different breeds of dogs.

On the first postage stamp, 1 Equatorial Guinean ekuele, we see Collie (Canis lupus familiaris).

This postage stamp has a very peaceful, pink border, almost like a pink flamingo.

In this I see a reliable business move that was a win-win.

In 1974, the last episodes of the Hollywood film "Lassie" were released, which tells about a very intelligent collie dog.

Many children dreamed of having this dog in their room, which means that such a postage stamp will sell well.

As I said, this postage stamp looks very friendly, but, in this, there is a special cynicism.

You need to imagine what Equatorial Guinea was like in 1978.

This is the era of the reign of the "eternal" President Francisco Macias Nguema Biogo Nyege Ndonga.

Equatorial Guineat survived difficult times, when it was a colony of Portugal, Great Britain and Spain, but, having gained independence in 1968, the country plunged into an even worse situation, from the terrible terror of the new government.

Everything collapsed, the education and medical system, infrastructure and production, and, in 1978, all the churches in the country were closed.

A third of the country's population died, or was forced to leave the country, the tyranny was unbearable.

Under the ban were European names, names of cities, streets and everything that reminded of Europe and the United States.

So, this postage stamp can tell a lot about the history of this country.

Let's take a look at this postage stamp.

Information about this postage stamp:

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Equatorial Guinea.
Subject: # Dogs, # Fauna, # Animals, # Nature, # Equatorial Guinea.
Series: Dogs: (III) 1978.
Name: Collie (Canis lupus familiaris).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 1 Equatorial Guinean ekuele.
Yvert and Tellier: Equatorial Guinea 127-A.
Episode release date: 1978.
Perforation: comb 14.
Postage stamp size: 35.5 x 35.5 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: ?.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ ? - $ ?.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.06 - $ 0.12.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Canceled 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.