Postage Stamp - Sports - Horse racing - Republic of Senegal 1961 - Michel Senegal 247 - my hobby

Postage Stamp - Sports - Horse racing - Republic of Senegal 1961 - Michel Senegal 247 - my hobby.

Greetings friends!

The first postage stamp that we will talk about in 2021 will be the postage stamp of the Republic of Senegal issued in 1961.

This postage stamp is a continuation of the Sports-themed postage stamp series that I talked about in the last days of 2020.

This postage stamp features horse racing.

Like previous postage stamps, this postage stamp is filled with the dynamics of the action.

We can say that this is a living image that has not finished its movement. It stopped, but our imagination can continue it.

Horse racing is one of the few sports where people place their hopes on animals.

I am not a fan of this sport and I believe that it is a mockery of animals, but now, we are talking about a postage stamp.

I love the postage stamps issued in Africa during this period.

They are very high quality.

Such a postage stamp is pleasant to hold in your hands.

It can be seen that the postage stamps were treated with due respect, they were printed on good paper and the images are of very high quality.

I have to add two more postage stamps to this series, and, for me, the philatelic quest "find a postage stamp" continues.

Description of the postage stamp:

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Republic of Senegal.
Subject: #Sports, #Racing, #Horses, #Africa, #Senegal.
Series: Sports.
Name: Horse racing.
Denomination of a postage stamp: 2 CFA - West African CFA franc.
Michel's Senegal catalog code: 247.
Episode release date: July 08, 1961.
Perforation: comb 13.
Postage stamp size: 40 x 26.5 mm.
Printing technology: Recess.
Circulation: ?.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.18 - $ 0.25.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.05 - $ 0.15.
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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