The loveliest airmail stamps of all go to – Greece!

Posted on | April 26, 2010 | 1 Comment

As readers of my little blog know, I collect all sorts of early aviation stuff. This spills over into stamp collecting. Yes, I confess, I am a geek in every way possible – I tinker with computers, I collect stamps, yada yada yada. But oh how I love airmail stamps. I have a modest collection that is growing rather nicely.

I have to admit, I am a bit of a snob though. I only like early airmail, after WW2 a lot of the romance and adventure was gone – it wasn’t such a big deal getting airmail posts because it had become so common.
One of my favourite airmail sets are the first Greek airmail. These beautiful stamps were issued in 1926:

From Aviation, Airmail
From Aviation, Airmail
From Aviation, Airmail
From Aviation, Airmail

Gorgeous aren’t they. When I first saw this series years ago I wanted them. Luckily they weren’t expensive so … in they went to my collection. Not sure what the white marks are on the first and third stamp, must be something on the protective cover that only shows on a scan.

They are referred to as the Patagonia set and were originally intended to be used on the Greece, Rhodes, Italy and Turkey route.  The airplane in each of the stamps is a “flying boat”.

Now.. to find the set on envelopes!

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One Response to “The loveliest airmail stamps of all go to – Greece!”

  1. Gordon
    April 27th, 2010 @ 8:11 am

    I to collected stamps Cdn it was the history that I enjoyed as well as the art. The colour on these are really nice as well as for aviation history