My Postage Stamps Collection

This is a blog of my personal stamps and covers collection. I am an avid collector of postage stamps, miniature sheets, FDCs and covers addressed to me from across the world, an accumulator and hoarder of stamps. It is my attempt here to show you all of my collection in the posts that I'll add and update regularly. I hope to add more to the collection in the process, interact with you other collectors out there and share thoughts and information about anything and everything related.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Singapore Revisited

Last time I posted on my collection of Singaporean stamps, I had put up a post on the odd shaped Orangutan, Care for nature stamps of the country. Well this time around, as I was shuffling through my Asian stamps collection, I knew I had to put up other stamps of this country on the blog.

A little history as usual before I start with the stamps....

Singapore, Malacca and Penang were the British settlements which, together with the Federated Malay States, composed the former colony of Straits Settlements. On April 1, 1946, Singapore became a separate colony when the Straits Settlements colony was dissolved. Malacca and Penang joined the Malayan Union, which was renamed the Federation of Malaya in 1948. In 1959 Singapore became a state with internal self-government.

Singapore joined the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 and withdrew in 1965.

And now...the stamps,

1955, Sept. 4: Queen Elizabeth II, Traditional and mordern transportation tools

1962, Mar. 31: Fish, Orchids and Birds

1968, Dec: Folk Dance and Musical Instruments

1973: Stylized flowers & fruit

1977: Sea shells & marine life

1980: Ships & Boats definitives. I have most of the stamps from the set and ofcourse the most wanted ones, high values, are already there.

1990, July 4: Singapore tourism. Low value definitives. Only 2 from the set of 9 stamps.
1991, July 1: From the set of 4 on Civilian Airports. Paya Lebar. Factfile: From 1979 to 1980, British Airways, in conjunction with Singapore Airlines, began flights to Singapore in supersonic Concords from London's Heathrow Airport, to Paya Lebar Singapore.

Few from recent years.

1997 Transport Definitives - High Values

2007 Flora & Fauna Definitives

2010 Know 10 Trees

2011
Spices
Endangered Animal - Oriental Small-Clawed Otter

Pond Life

National Day - Areas of Historical Significance

Miniature Sheets
1984, Aug. 9: 25th anniv. of self-government.
The stamps and sheet were issued to commemorate Singapore’s 25 Years of Nation Building (1959 – 1984).