I found my childhood Stanley Gibbons stamp album today and thought I’d share a few images of some Ajman, Romanian and Czechoslavakian space exploration stamps.
1970 Ajman airmail stamps
These Ajman stamps feature artwork depicting some of the US Apollo missions.
1964 Romanian airmail stamps
These Romanian stamps feature US astronauts and Russian cosmonauts such as John Glenn and Yuri Gagarin.
Czechoslavakian stamp
I can’t find the date of this stamp but “člověk na měsíci” translates to “man on the moon” and the 1969 date would seem to celebrate the beginning of the Apollo moon missions. The letter ‘C’ on the astronaut’s chest could relate to Eugene Cernan, an Apollo astronaut of Czech origin.
Detail. Cosmos space stamps. France. 1982.
Unique article. Facinating that these stamps would have been allowed pre cold war sentiment. The space race was alive and well.
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