Boat #237, China - Lighthouse Week

Like yesterday, today's lighthouses don't include any boats. So first, let's get boat #237 out of the way...

And now, to close out the week, a really nice, colorful set depicting the lighthouses of China...

Boat #238, Sierra Leone

This lighthouse stamp, though quite lovely, does not include a seagoing vessel, and therefore does not qualify as boat #238. So after some digging, I found the stamp below—the only boat stamp in my collection hailing from Sierra Leone.

Can I just say, the British Empire's insistence on slapping the disembodied head of a monarch on every stamp from every one of their territories and colonies is, quite frankly, kind of creepy.

Boat #239, American Shoals Florida and West Quoddy Head Maine

Another lighthouse (with a bonus Coast Guard boat) from the same set as yesterday's close up of the Hatteras lighthouse.

And also, this classic candy stripe lighthouse from West Quoddy Head, Maine.

Boat #240, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina - Lighthouse Week

A nice little scene from Cape Hatteras National Seashore. There are actually two more stamps in this block that I'm missing. Luckily, the Lighthouse Stamp Society (yes, that is a real thing) has every lighthouse stamp ever printed up on their website. Here is the link to the complete stamp block:

http://www.lighthousestampsociety.org/webstamps/uns1448.jpg

As I was lighthouse hunting this week I came across this view of the Hatteras lighthouse too:
There'll be more from this stamp set tomorrow.

Boat #241, Jersey - Announcing the Commencement of Lighthouse Week

All this week, in addition to the usual boats, we'll be visiting lighthouses of the world. Enjoy!

Boat #248, The Republic of Guinea (With Bonus Lighthouse)

Perhaps we'll have a week soon where each boat comes with a bonus lighthouse stamp. That sounds fun, eh?

Boat #322, Jersey - Highlights from the Dearborn Stamp Show, Day One

It's stamp show season and last week I visited the Dearborn show. This show was a lot smaller than the Plymouth one. There were twenty or so dealers crammed into a dimly lit social hall that smelled of sixty years worth of roast beef dinner and cigar smoke—a philatelists's natural habitat.

Philip

Boat #342, Isle of Man - Highlights from the Plymouth Stamp Show, Day Four

Shipwrecks are great, but so are sunsets. I thought we'd spend one more day soaking up the scenery on the Isle of Man.

Philip