Dr. Tan Wee Kiat — retired NIE Associate Professor, avid philatelist, author/ co-author of several books — shares this snippet about Stamps and Politics:
Although Singapore separated and became a sovereign nation on Aug 9, 1965 the use of Malaysian stamps for Singapore mail continued till February 1967. I do not possess stamp covers dated Feb 1967 but do have Singapore-registered stamp covers with Malaysian stamps (of the Malaysian King, Prime Minister, etc) dated December 1966, which is a full 16 months after Singapore became independent.
Thus, while Singapore and Malaysia were ‘politically’ separate in August 1965, they were still ‘philatelically’ linked for many months after that. Nice-sounding phrase, isn’t it? (Politically-separate but philatellically-linked.)
Full article over at his blog called ReTRIeVIA.
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Realised I didn’t include the direct url to Wee Kiat’s article. Here it is: http://retrievia.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/of-stamps-and-politics/
Posted on September 17th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Realised I didn’t include the direct url to Wee Kiat’s article. Here it is: http://retrievia.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/of-stamps-and-politics/
Posted on December 9th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
August 1965, they were still ‘philatelically’ linked for many months after that. Nice-sounding phrase, isn’t it? (Politically-separate but philatellically-linked.)
Posted on December 9th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
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