Gold on Postage Stamps 

             Gold on Postage Stamps

                       Gold on Postage Stamps

 

 

The gold is the principal source of the commercial metal, used especially in jewelry.

In this section we can see the postage stamps with mines of gold and the images of the gold, as mineral, as symbol or as jewel, that were issued by different Nations .

 

 

Museo del Fin del Mundo - Ushuaia, Argentina

 

The first issue philatelist with the writing "gold" was a 1887 postage stamp, by now that cannot be found, of a private mail of the Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

 

Postal Stamps  - List and Images

 

Update 02-01-2012

 

Stamps printed in excesssive amount

According to the article of the Philatelic Webmaster Organization, some printing companies have made deals with poor countries (mostly in Africa) to print stamps that are mostly targeted to the stamp collecting market.

The stamps are apparently endorsed by the local postal administrations, but are printed in huge quantities (compared to the local needs of the country), and sold mostly to collectors.

The article in particular cites the Swiss printing company "Impressor SA".

I indeed have seen their label on many topical stamps and souvenir sheets related to minerals, from countries like Chad, Comorros, Mali, Niger, Congo ...... The design of those stamps and souvenir sheets are strikingly similar, and one could wonder if they were not only printed by the same company, but designed by the same company as well. If all this is correct, then one could also wonder how much philatelic value those stamps really have. (Courtesy Stephane Gigandét)