Cleopatra on stamps of Germany, 1984

Here is a scan of a 30 Pfennig postahge stamp of Germany depicting the image of Cleopatra VI, issued on 12 January 1984. The offset-printed issue had a circulation of 14.5 million stamps. The image used for the stamp was the photo of the marlbe head of Cleopatra VI, the last Pharao of Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt (30-40 BC), from the Altes Museum Berlin (Berliner Museumsinsel). The photo of the original marble figure is below:

Arabian horse on 1968 Soviet Union postage stamp

PD Image: Arabian horse on postage stamp of value 6 Kopecks issued by the postal department of the Soviet Union (USSR) in 1968

Elvis Presley on German postage stamp

PD Image: Scan of a postage stamp issued by the German postal department, ‘Deutschen Bundespost’ in 1988

Design Error - Pagsanjan Falls US Postage Stamp

PD Image: 18 Centavos postage stamp design error on a 1932 Philippines stamp. Although the stamp indicates that it depicts the Pagsanjan Falls in Luzon Islands in the Philippines, in fact it shows the Vernal Fall, Yosemite National Park, California, USA.

The Pagsanjan Falls postage stamp, part of a set of seven stamps showing places of interest and landmarks in the Philippines, issued on 3 May 1932 is highly priced due to an error. In 1932 Philippines was treated as its own territory by the United States.

The United States postal department wanted to print an image of Pagsanjan Falls, a tourist attraction in Laguna province in the Philippines on the above stamp. But due to a callous design error, the image of the Vernal Fall was used. The error has made the stamp the most sought after in the set.

Famous Americans Series of 1940: Commemorative Stamps

In 1940 the US Post Office issued a set of 35 Commemorative Stamps, over the course of approximately ten months, commemorating America's famous authors, poets, educators, scientists, composers, artists and inventors. One of the famous artists included in the series was American-born British-based artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose Commemorative Stamp is shown separately below:

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) featured in the ‘Famous Americans Series of 1940’ commemorative stamps issue by the US Post Office

Danae on postage stamp of Ajman, UAE

Danae by Rembrandt van Rijn, was included on a set of commemorative postage stamps issued by Ajman, one of the Emirates of United Arab Emirates (UAE). The scan of the set of 14 such stamps can be found in this blog - CLICK HERE to view.