Archive for the ‘Madagascar’ Category

#1413 Madagascar 23/09/06

This amazing registered cover from Madagascar was sent by Martin, thank you very much! It was posted in Mananara on September 6 and arrived on October 2, 2023.

The top stamps commemorate the Jonah’s mouse lemur (Microcebus jonahi), a species of the comet orchids (Angraecum sororium), and a species of the Catharanthus family.

#647 Madagascar 13/03/07

Madagascar 130307Thank you, Johnny, for sending this nice cover from Madagascar! It was posted in Ihosy on March 7 and arrived on March 28, 2013.

The flower stamps are part of a set, which was issued on February 16, 2011. They commemorate the Madagascan endemic plants Physena sessiliflora and Rhopalocarpus similis Hemsley.

The middle stamp commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Senegalese poet and politician Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001). The stamp was issued on March 20, 2006.