Postage Stamp - Agriculture and Art - Domestic Sheep (Ovis ammon aries) - Mali 1961 - Michel Mali 30 - my hobby

Postage Stamp - Agriculture and Art - Domestic Sheep (Ovis ammon aries) - Mali 1961 - Michel Mali 30 - my hobby.

Greetings friends!
For today, I wanted to post about a postage stamp that shows us Christmas.

As it turned out, there is no such postage stamp in my collection and, at first, I wanted to abandon this idea, but, after all, the most important thing is to understand the essence of Christmas.

Let's talk about the most important thing, namely, about what Christmas was like.

A shepherd came to Earth, who was born in a stable, in a manger, from which sheep and other cattle take food.

He came to be our shepherds and show us the right path.

A good shepherd, always comes to the aid of his sheep.

I was born in Moldova, sheep breeding is widespread there.

But, the postage stamp, which will show us the shepherd and the sheep, was issued not in Moldova, but in the African country of Mali in 1961, oddly enough, one day before Christmas, December 24.

Small pieces of paper, banknotes with images can direct us to the right thought, if it is good to look for what is hidden behind them.

Description of the postage stamp:

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Mali.
Subject: #Agriculture, #sheep, #shepherd, #cattle, #africa.
Series: Agriculture and Art.
Name: Woodcarver.
Denomination of a postage stamp: 0.50 CFA - West African CFA franc.
Michel's Mali catalog code: 30.
Episode release date:December 24, 1961.
Perforation: comb 13.
Postage stamp size: 40 x 26 mm.
Printing technology: Recess.
Circulation: ?.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.21 - $ 0.34.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.05 - $ 0.11.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean postage 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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