Travel & Philately
Two great passions, which
make our life more interesting, better, and in the end, live some
"traces" to future generation.
Even that I'm not fun of
visiting Antarctic, or other "untouched" part of our planet, I like
when
people, that visit far end of the world, bring back home memory in the
form of post card or letter, properly canceled.
From this kind of artifact,
our future generation, can learn a lot, as properly canceled post card or
letter, give us some great information about place we visited.
Recently, I received this
post card (as a gift), so I was happy to research little bit, about place
someone visited.
As I read from cancel, it is Port
Lockroy Post Office, which produced this clear cancel on British
Antarctic Territory (BAT as better known in "Philatelic"
language), postage stamp.
Happy
to see, that cancel is actually applied on stamp, so we (collectors) have this
nice feeling to know that, YEAH, there are humans there! Personally, I
hate "industry" made tourist items, in form of post card with
imprinted cancel on it.
On same side of post card,
near post office cancel, are another cancel, with penguin as central figure,
and with coordinates of same Port Lockroy, than third cancel for Antarctic
Heritage Trust.
Stamp used for postage come
from 2014 year set of 5 stamps, for Airmail Postcard
(65 p face value). Stamp is
produced in small format, so you will need lenses to see the beauty of design.
Stamp used on this post card,
actually don't have "great" market value (around 1.50 US$ in mint or used
condition), but full set of five stamps, can reach near 8.00 US$, on some
online sites, and as on
eBay, I see that people are offering it for near 12.00
US$ plus postage.
Will this item(s) have any
market value in the future?
Hardly. I'm sure that BAT produced
enough quantity to fill dealers need, so market will have it in offer for near
or far future, and as tourist visit this places more and more frequently, that
say, there will be lot of this kind post card around. But, who know what future
will bring to us!
So, go, travel, spend on it,
bring back home memory in form of PHILATELIC item(s), which will keep
"traces" of You, to the future.
In the end, our next
generations will have nice memory of us, probably, this way, we will keep
PHILATELY FOREVER!
p.s.
Again, great THANK go to Assaf
Ben-Ary
(אסף
בן ארי)
father, for this post card.
