Here is a scan of a 30 Pfennig postahge stamp of Germany depicting the image of Cleopatra VI, issued on 12 January 1984. The offset-printed issue had a circulation of 14.5 million stamps. The image used for the stamp was the photo of the marlbe head of Cleopatra VI, the last Pharao of Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt (30-40 BC), from the Altes Museum Berlin (Berliner Museumsinsel). The photo of the original marble figure is below:
PD Image: Arabian horse on postage stamp of value 6 Kopecks issued by the postal department of the Soviet Union (USSR) in 1968
PD Image: Scan of a postage stamp issued by the German postal department, ‘Deutschen Bundespost’ in 1988
PD Image: 18 Centavos postage stamp design error on a 1932 Philippines stamp. Although the stamp indicates that it depicts the Pagsanjan Falls in Luzon Islands in the Philippines, in fact it shows the Vernal Fall, Yosemite National Park, California, USA.
The Pagsanjan Falls postage stamp, part of a set of seven stamps showing places of interest and landmarks in the Philippines, issued on 3 May 1932 is highly priced due to an error. In 1932 Philippines was treated as its own territory by the United States.
The United States postal department wanted to print an image of Pagsanjan Falls, a tourist attraction in Laguna province in the Philippines on the above stamp. But due to a callous design error, the image of the Vernal Fall was used. The error has made the stamp the most sought after in the set.
This is a scan of the 1- Riyal AIRMAIL postage stamp of ‘AJMAN STATE AND ITS DEPENDENCIES’, on which the famous painting, Venus Dormida: Sleeping Venus’ by Giorgione (CLICK TO VIEW the original painting’s picture) is printed. It seems to be one of the commemorative stamps issued by AJMAN STATE to celebrate art by Western painters, with some of the best paintings included in the set of 16 stamps. Ajman is one of the seven emirates constituting the United Arab Emirates (UAE). CLICK TO VIEW THE FULL SET of similar stamps.
The Sleeping Venus, also known as the Dresden Venus, one of the last works by Giorgione, was incomplete at the time of Giorgione's death, and the landscape and sky were painted by Titian in 1510 to complete the work, which is currently in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, Germany.
Danae by Rembrandt van Rijn, was included on a set of commemorative postage stamps issued by Ajman, one of the Emirates of United Arab Emirates (UAE). The scan of the set of 14 such stamps can be found in this blog - CLICK HERE to view.
The scanned image of a set of one-Riyal Airmail postage stamps issued by Ajman State with the printing AJMAN STATE AND ITS DEPENDENCIES seems to be of an era before Ajman joined the present day United Arab Emirates (UAE). On 2 December 1971, Ajman joined the United Arab Emirates, and Ajman is now one of the seven emirates constituting the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the others being Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Umm al-Quwain, Ras al-Khaimah and Fujairah. Interestingly the stamp seems to be a commemorative issue to celebrate nudes in art by Western painters, with some of the best nudes paintings included in the set of 16 stamps, out of which two stamps are removed, and shows 14 stamps in the set. CLICK on the above image to enlarge and view the individual stamps.
