Postage Stamp Chat Board & Stamp Forum

Here we go.
These are the clues (at least one is right):
1. Austria.
2. Art.
3. 2000.
To try to generate more participants, the person who guesses will win the stamp and this beautiful mini sheet:

Very nice! Thank you Carlos.

Österreich 2012 Photo Art by Elfie Semotan [70c]

Congratulations, Joy Daschaudhuri! You have guessed the stamp only with an image. Please, send me a PM with your address.

Thanks elcooperativo for posting a new micropic challenge,
and for the lovely minisheet you offered as an incentive prize.

Congratulations to Joy Daschaudhuri for identifying the whole
stamp from that one micropic

I think that leaves me to play the role of well-entertained visitor
to this thread, at least for the moment... All good

/RogerE

Clue: Theme–Art

Portugese India, 1953, Our Lady Statue?

Answer is basically correct.

The actual stamp was the currency reformation surcharged Índia Portuguêsa 1959 $80 ovpt. on 1953 3T Exposição de Arte Sacra Missionária 1953 Lisboa: Nossa Senhora [Mundifil (ex-Afinsa) 501].
mari, send me your postal address.

I think we are now waiting for mari to post a micro-image
with three hints, at least one of which is appropriate...

/RogerE

I am really very sorry for the long delay, it was a very long time. I am away from my stamps but I hope to be back at the end of next week (and will try to make up for this with some gift... )

Happy February to all
Thanks for the reassuring post mari.
We're eagerly awaiting your follow-up.

/RogerE

mari, we're still waiting patiently for your next post...

/RogerE

I am really sorry for the long delay. Finally, here is the first clue:

Portugese India, or, 1959, or, art:

Welcome back mari, and thanks for the mysterious animal
miniature/vignette... I'm guessing that it will turn out to be
in the category "art", but so far I don't recognise it at all...

/RogerE

Thank you RogerE!

New clue:

Nice herd emerging — still no idea about the stamp, but
I like my earlier guess that this is in the "art" category...

/RogerE

Can you enlarge the clue-view please mari?

/RogerE

Next clue:

Thanks mari. I still don't recognise it, but I hope
a fellow Stampboarder will manage to do so...

/RogerE

Hello mari. I think we need a larger part of the subject, please...

/RogerE 8)

The next clue:

That was a hard one. Had to wait for clue.

1987 Christmas Nicaragua. Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus.

Close?

Yes, it's correct Please send me your address!

It is part of a beautiful series, I will send you all four:

What a beautiful set of images! Thanks for sharing them with us mari,
and thanks to casmx for solving the puzzle!

Appreciative spectator /RogerE

HI Everyone....
Its time to have a guess at this one....Good Luck Casmx

1) Greece
2) 1969
3) Animal Kingdom

Hello casmx. Time for a larger window on your
clue (is that an eagle's wing, I wonder)?

/RogerE

Next clue

Thanks for the enlarged view casmx. I hope someone has
a good catalogue handy, with coloured illustrations...

/RogerE

OK - last clue - its very easy - there is a nice gift heading your way with four stamps - not just one.

bump - im trying to give something nice away.

Hello casmx and fellow Stampboarders!

I haven't been able to borrow a catalogue to go
searching for the solution to this latest challenge,
and I've been hoping that someone else would
come up with the solution...

Maybe it will turn out that I do manage to borrow a
catalogue before anyone else can solve this one,
but I'm sorry for casmx that it has been
running for quite a long time.

/RogerE

OK. First one to guess the year for this FDC and its yours.
I will check this post for the winner.

Aahh casmx, now you've made it too easy.
The first day cover was issued by the United Nations
office in Geneva, in 1969.

Artistically, your chosen stamp is by far the most attractive
of the set — gracefully elongated, beautifully highlighted.
Presumably its significance is allegorical — aspiring to a
better world...

/RogerE

Well done RogerE its yours. I will try sending you an email to get your postal details. Thanks for playing. Casmx

I will follow up on my new responsibilities in a day or two.

/RogerE

Here is the next challenge.



The stamp shown belongs to at least one of the following
categories, represented by the previous challenge, namely:
1) United Nations;
2) Issued 1968-69;
3) Theme: Art

Happy searching!
/RogerE

If the solution has not been posted, I will post the
next, wider view in about 22 hours...

/RogerE

Well, it's actually 24hrs later. Here is a larger portion of
the "mystery" stamp:



/RogerE

Next, larger clue will be added in about 36hrs
if no solution posted in the meantime...

/RogerE

Still no solutions/identifications posted.
As promised, here is the next wider view:

The stamp shown belongs to at least one of the following
categories, represented by the previous challenge, namely:
1) United Nations;
2) Issued 1968-69;
3) Theme: Art

/RogerE

Hello Stampboarders, anyone working on this?

Next enlarged view about 33hrs from now, if no solution in the meantime...

/RogerE

Next, larger view. Which stamp is it?



/RogerE

The latest image is almost a "give away"! If no-one comes up with
the correct identification during the next 12 hours, I will supply a
verbal clue rather than a larger picture.

/RogerE

The verbal clue:

The artwork for the mystery stamp was produced by a famous engraver
who produced many stamps for Scandinavian countries during his very
productive lifetime.

/RogerE

Is it a 1968-1969 issue from Grønland (Greenland)?

Yes Catweazel, you've got it! And you've got it — I will be mailing
the stamp to you, along with one or two supplementary rewards.

In the meantime, two assignments for you:
(1) Tell us some more about the stamp.
(2) Use Stampboards e-mail to send me your postal address.

Thanks, and best wishes!
/RogerE

Good Lord, I got it!



Beautifully engraved 1968 stamp, centered on the theme of children's health (or is it child welfare?) in Greenland. I'm guessing that the extra 10 øre goes towards Children's Health?

Interesting design, the inside of a castle. Obviously the artists are trying to suggest something...

If I may be so bold – in light of Greenlandic kids in the same year that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated – here goes:



(I feel like this one will be easy for most of you...)

Can I just say that I reread my previous post and realised with shock horror that some might take offence. I never meant it as such!

I wrote that first sentence in complete innocence, then spent some time going through my collection wondering what fits. I was thinking of stamps depicting children, and saw this one. Although now I think of it, the theme of this specific issue relates to something other than children, they just happen to feature.

Believe me when I say that I meant this in no way to be of racist stereotyping or discrimination. That's not how I roll! My mind never went down that path!

If mods prefer, I can do a different stamp... Let me know. Otherwise, that image can remain as your first clue.

Hmmm, I'm not a moderator, but I must say I think you're
worrying unnecessarily Catweazle. To me your post seems
straightforward and perfectly innocent of any inappropriate
innuendo.

/RogerE