Sunday, April 18, 2010

Dominica Stamps


Stamp collecting has never been the most trendiest of hobbies hence my slight hesitation in confessing to collecting Dominica stamps when I was younger.
Always drawn to colour I loved the beautiful vibrant designs on many of our stamps, but often wondered why some of the subjects featured, had nothing to do with the country.
e.g Dominica Honors David Copperfield

Dominican artist David wilson recently raised a discussion question "How can we use our art to create cultural visibility for our country" and one of the suggestions from Glenford John was to have images of artists work on Dominica stamps.
I thought that would be a great idea so am now on a mission to find out who decides Dominica stamp design and how possible is their idea.
I have some information from the Post Office to but if anyone has any information, let me know.

Other possible design ideas:
- Kalinago people & culture
- Dominican muscians & singers
- Dominica culture, dance etc (It looks like creole wear has already been done)
- Creole cuisine
- Traditional Fishing Boats
- Past Prime Ministers
- The Real Mas
etc etc

These are a selection of the stamps I have
Dominica Stamps slideshow

Here are some past Dominica stamp designs
store.coolstamps.com - Dominica
birdtheme.org - Dominica
Dominica Stamps
knowyoursto.com - Dominica
trussel.com - Dominica1
trussel.com - Dominica2
trussel.com - Dominica3

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