Manama More Apollo 16

Some gorgeous stamps here. Do you recognise any of the space vehicles?

Manama Apollo 13

More from the stamp state, a beautiful moon base. 

The rear cover sheet depicts moon modules and astronauts reminiscent of Ed Valigursky (see labels).

Manama Apollo 16

I love these old Manama stamps. This one of astronauts leaving a vehicle is great. Not sure where Manama is. More stamps to come.

VINTAGE TOY ADVERTISER: MEV2 AND MORE!

Check out these cool space stamps on this ace vintage ad site. It includes 1982 French Cosmos stamps featuring the MEV2!

https://thevintagetoyadvertiser.org/tag/ajman-space-stamps/

BY GUM! IT'S A NOVA STAMP!

Here's another old and beautiful Manama stamp from the Apollo 13 series, this one showing the Nova rocket we know and love as part part of the SpaceX I range of toys.

Almost certainly copied from Ed Valigursky's original art its still a fine illustration and looks great on its fiery cosmic background.

Manama put out some superb stamps. Do you agree?

BY GUM! THE MOON BUGGY STAMP

 

You may not be able to easily get hold of the SpaceX Moon Buggy but there's always one or two Manama stamps lurking online somewhere.

Its one of the Apollo 13 series, a series of stamps with 'designs for future moon exploration'.

What do you think?

THE DINOSAURS ARE COMING!

There's some fabulous dinosaur box art coming next week from Rob in the US.

In the meantime here's a superb image of one of the Polish stamps I adored as a kid in 1965. This is the T. Rex.

Did you have stamps like this?

THE MARTIAN POST BOX

Hi Woodsy,

I found these stamp images online - very Moonbase-y I thought!

Andy B

UK

SIXTIES STAMP ALBUM

 

This image online really brought back memories.

I loved that very Royal Mail stamp album as a young philatelist.

The train at the bottom was always a draw.

I can clearly recall the stamps I collected in the Sixties too. So iconic. So many different pictures. I'll have to find some images of them online.

Did you have a stamp album like this?

APOLLO 16: FROM THE POSTMAN

I love these old stamps from Manama I saw on Ebay.

They're called Apollo 16.

Some of the spacecraft look familiar to us. The rocket is a lot like a NOVA. the space station was released as a neat Kellogs model, which some of you may have had. The red space glider reminds me of the one in the film Marooned. My favourite craft is the one top right, the long stick-like space station, which would have made a decent SpaceX toy would you say?

Do you like these stamps?

NOW THAT'S A STAMP!

Our friend the SpaceX Nova!

Have you any space stamps?

PHOTONIC STAMPS

I've blogged about one of these stamps before but not a whole sheet.

This is the Conquest of Space from Yemen 1971.

They are often on Ebay. Like these ones.

Its interesting that on four of the stamps the Photonic Space Station is shown. Its the long thin station with the dish-shaped head. The six stamps are like a narrative of its journey.

You will have heard of the Photonic Space Station maybe as its a fabulous Tri-ang SpaceX toy!

NOVART: NOVA ROCKET ILLUSTRATIONS

There isn't much Nova rocket art online.

I remember being chuffed finding this Nova stamp 5 years ago. Its one of a number of SpaceXesque stamps out there. 

This is part of the Apollo 13 series from Manama. It appears to be a variation on Ed Valigursky's classic Nova illustration/

But only this week I saw this on the Bay. I think its a Nova design minus the four fuel tanks. Its on the cover of a 1962 journal called Space: Man's New Frontier.

Have you any Nova art?

stamp collecting in the sixties

I was never a trainspotter as a kid but I did collect stamps for a while.

In fact everyone I knew collected something. My brother collected matchboxes and someone collected beer bottle tops.

My stamp collecting wasn't really that serious but I did enjoy the little philately I did during the late Sixties and the early Seventies.

I had a large hardback book on stamp collecting, which I really liked. It was probably published by Stanley Gibbons via Hamlyn or Collins. I'd love a copy of it now.

My actual stamps were all classics of their day from around the globe. I recall the World Cup, Concorde, Christmas but above all I remember dinosaurs. I think they may have have been marked Polska or Magyar something [Hungary?]. I adored those pictures .

They reminded me of my plastic model dinosaurs by Revell I think. the box art was equally as cool as the stamps.

Did you collect stamps as a kid or maybe something else?

BY GUM! ITS THE SPACEX - PROJECT SWORD STAMP ALBUM

In these hard times it would be so good to find a way of keeping my collection going with breaking the bank. So I was really chuffed when I discovered the world of SpaceX and SWORD-related stamps!

I've spoken about them before but I had no idea just how many cool and inexpensive stamps there are depicting our fave space toy ranges especially SpaceX. I think I've got it licked though now! ha ha!

So without further ado I give you my SpaceX / SWORD stamp album so far. Some I own. Some I don't:

Kepler Anniversary paper philatelic sheet from Sharjah [now part of the United Arab Emirates]

picturing MEV2 by Ed Valigursky from the LIFE Man and Space book

Apollo 11 stamp from Sharjah,

our friend the Booster Rocket again by Ed Valigursky from the Man and Space book as used on the Century 21 SWORD toy box art as well!

there are lots of Saturn V's on the crawler featured on stamps. This is my favourite. From Fujeira, like Sharjah, on old desert sheikdom, now part of the UAE.

 

There are also lots of lifting bodies on stamps. Here's a nice USAF one from the Marshall Islands.

Photonic Space Station courtesy of Arabic YAR.

 

 

Moon Buggy courtesy of Ajman.

Rescue 6 lookalike from Ajman

 

ATS stamp, unknown Arabic state

Nova Rocket as illustrated by Ed Valigursky more or less. Ajman State.

 

Like the Saturn V, there are lots of Lunar Orbiters on stamps. Here's just one, from Burundi.

 

 

Not so many Blackbirds but here's one, again from the Marshall Islands

 

and that's were the real stamps end folks. These final few are one's I've made up on the Royal Mail website. They call them 'smilers'.

Rocket Transporter

Salvage Craft

Crash Tender

MOLAB

Moon Crawler

 

 

Like Darth Vader's progeny, there are others! Here are a few more:

 

Booster Rocket [centre], Sierra Leone

ATS [left], Ascension

A really beautiful stamp with an ATS [left], Yemen

 

Valigursky a go go! Nearly all Ed's fab illustrations from the Man and Space book. Just the Nova and MEV2 not used for this set, called Apollo 11. Sharjah.

 

 

A full mint set of unused sheets of Valigursky stamps from Sharjah. By gum!

 

Any more pictures of SpaceX/ SWORD- related stamps would be welcomed readers!

HOT LICKS: MORE SPACE STAMPS

 

Remember those 'spacex' stamps; I posted last week, here are the uncut sheets showing other interesting space vehicle concepts. [pictures; Ebay]

SPACEX STAMPS

 

 

I've had some luck recently finding postage stamps online picturing Spacex type vehicles. Here we have:

 

Top to bottom, Left to right:

 

 

Astronomic Telescopic Satellite, Nova

Lunar Orbiter, Moon Buggy

MEV 2 ['ish!], MLP

 

 

The vehicle I come across the most on different stamps by far is the Lunar Orbiter, which seemed to capture the global philatelic imagination when it was launched. I haven't managed to find a single Dyna Soar or M1F2/HL10 Lifting Body stamp, although they do feature as illustrations on many first day covers. I have just found this SR71 Blackbird aka Space Patrol 1. There must be more - MOLAB, Stiletto [Hawk], Atomic Beta One [Supply Force Mercury] - have a google. All your finds will be licked and stuck on the blog!