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A historic collection of 261 Comoros postage stamps
✨ Discovery of the day
Year: 1969
The Vanilla Orchid
Designed by P. Lambert and produced via fine photogravure by the Société Ge. Im., this regular postage issue features a detailed botanical study of the Vanilla Orchid (Vanilla planifolia), meticulously documenting its delicate pale-yellow flowering petals alongside emerging green seed pods and climbing vines. Historically, this definitive stamp represents the agricultural backbone of the Comorian colonial and territorial economy, as the archipelago—particularly the island of Anjouan—developed into one of the world's premier producers of high-grade Bourbon vanilla. By archiving this critical cash crop, the postal administration highlighted the intensive manual pollination techniques and curing industries that sustained thousands of local farming families and drove the territory's international trade networks.
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Surrender at Appomattox - Generals Lee and Grant
Indri (Indri indri) - Madagascar
Bornean Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus)
Mountain Nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni)
White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum)
African Leopard (Panthera pardus)
Tiger Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) - Australia
Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) and the American Civil War
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) and the Apollo Lunar Program
General George E. Pickett (1825-1875) and Appomattox
General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) and the Chattanooga Campaign
General George G. Meade (1815-1872) and the Battle of Gettysburg
General Joseph E. Johnston (1807-1891) and the Battle of Antietam
General P. G. T. Beauregard and the First Battle of Bull Run
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) and the American Civil War
First Anniversary of Admission to the United Nations
Viking Mission to Mars - U.S. Bicentennial 1976
Viking Mission to Mars - U.S. Bicentennial 1976
Viking Mission to Mars - U.S. Bicentennial 1976
Viking Mission to Mars - U.S. Bicentennial 1976
Viking Mission to Mars - U.S. Bicentennial 1976
Viking Mission to Mars - U.S. Bicentennial 1976
