Below you will find articles about diving. Or click here to view stamps with the subject diving in the catalog.
Penrhyn, Northern Cook Islands 2011 In 2011 Penrhyn, one of the Northern Cook Islands, issued the stamps shown here featuring the unusual subject Pearl Diving. Two species of pearl oyster are found in the Cook Islands. The small pearl oyster...
Soviet Union 1968 Excuse my ignorance but I'd never heard of Underwater Orienteering before I came across the stamps featured here! Organised in bodies of open water over courses of various shapes and distances it is a combination of underwater...
The Cayman Islands Postal Service issued a stamp series entitled ‘Anchors’ in 2013. The stamps feature the anchors of local shipwrecks with illustrations of the ship type. The series highlight the anchors of the Mathusalem (20c), Topsy (25c), Inga (25c),...
As previously reported on this blog by Cees Janssen, Commissioner Maigret was “created” in Delfzijl. In Cees’s article, you can also see 3 beautiful Simenon stamps. This prompted me to delve deeper into (philatelic) history...
Flipping through channels like National Geographic and Animal Planet, they sometimes appear: beautiful images of coral reefs. 'Wow,' I always think, 'I'd really like to see that in real life.' But well, with my introductory diving training, I will...
In the stamp world, when it comes to blocks, most collectors immediately think of a block of four or more stamps torn from a sheet or a small sheet, containing one or more stamps. But upon looking through my...
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