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Recent research in July 2018 by Uri Shamir unearthed 41 items that have now been added to our web-site.
Recent research in July 2018 by Uri Shamir unearthed 41 items that have now been added to our web-site. These are:
1. The £1 Ghana stamp designed by Shamir.
2. Two Granada stamp series of six stamps in each designed by Shamir. Mexico Olympics and Kennedy's 50th birthday.
3. A Shamir Falkland Islands FDC for QE2's silver anniversary
4. A Maldives FDC by Shamir - 25th Anniversary of QE II coronation
5. 10 FDCs for stamp series designed by Shamir for Ghana, Maldives and Togo. The FDCs were designed by Art Craft.
Togo admission to the UN 1960
Ghana 1st anniversary of the republic, 1961
Maldives Kennedy 1963
Togo World Fair in USA (first) 1964
Togo World Fair in USA (second) 1964
Togo International Cooperation Year 1965
Togo Postage Stamps - stamps on stamps (first) 1967
Togo Postage Stamps - stamps on stamps (second) 1967
Maldives the boy scout movement 1973
Togo Centennial of Universal Postal Union 1974
6. 14 more FDCs for stamps designed by Shamir. These FDC were almost certainly not designed by Shamir and the designers of these are no known.
Surinam Official opening of airport 1960
Surinam Rome Olympics 1960
Ghana Freedom and justice 1961
Togo In Honour of John Glenn's first orbiting flight 1962
Nigeria African Conference in Lagos 1962
Ghana The world without the bomb 1962
Ghana National Founders' day 1963
Ghana UNESCO 1964
Nigeria Campaign to save the monuments of Nubia 1964
Ghana National Founders' day 1964
Togo 15th anniversary of independence 1975
Togo Vintage cars 1977
Togo International year of the child 1979
Maldives Flowers 1979
7. Eight items that may well have been designed by Shamir - but there is no evidence that they were.
3 FDCs for Togo
3 FDC's for Maldives
Another FDC for Maldives
And finally a football series for Ghana with one stamp (the 1d) looking very much like Shamir work
Every item and FDC mentioned above includes Shamir stamps.