Stamps can actually tell us a lot

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Following the post Singapore’s First Tallest Building, Dr Tan Wee Kiat came by and pointed to me a stamp that shows the 1971 Singapore Skyline.

See if you can find the Asia Insurance Building? And if you look carefully, you will also see Clifford Pier on the stamp below.

I was told that the stamp above (of the 1987 Central Business District) also shows the Asia Insurance Building. One just have to take a closer look and look out for the characteristic shape and structure of the Asia Insurance Building, and presto, one will find it on this stamp. The second stamp seems to suggest that by the year 1987, the Asia Insurance Building is no longer the tallest building in Singapore.

The stamp above shows the 2004 Singapore Skyline. I have found myself requiring more effort of the eye to identify the Asia Insurance Building from this skyline.

Collectively, the stamps seem to tell me of the building’s glorious past, and how it has now took a step back to pass the glory to newer and taller buildings.

Although I used to collect some stamps when I was much younger, it did not struck me until very much recently that stamps can have an important part in documenting a country’s social history, way of life, and more. The stamps that you see in this post does tell us a lot about our country’s past. It shows the changes that a country has gone through over a period of slightly less than two decades.

Special thanks to Dr Tan for the softcopies of the two stamps. This post is made possible through collaborative efforts, that starts all the way from Chun See’s question.

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