Laos stamps

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Flag of Laos

Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked socialist republic communist state in southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (Burma) and the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west. Laos traces its history to the Kingdom of Lan Xang or Land of a Million Elephants, which existed from the 14th to the 18th century. After a period as a French colony, it gained independence in 1945. A long civil war ended when the communist Pathet Lao came to power in 1975.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laos

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/LocationLaos.png

#78-2#79-2

Scott: #78-9O (Mi #125-6)

Issued: 15.11.1962

Stamp Day

Inside #78:

#18-2

#68-2

#43-2

#71-2

Laos #18P

Laos #68O

(Mi #111)

Laos #43P

(Mi #76)

Laos #71P

(Mi #118)

#49-2

#63-2

#C26-2

#C19-2

Laos #49PP

(Mi #86)

Laos #63O

(Mi #100)

Laos #C26O

(Mi #65)

Laos #C19O

(Mi #48)

Inside #79: Stamp on Envelope

michel%20Block%2029Amichel Block 29B

Mi #BL 29A-BO

Thanks to Dr. Eli Moallem

KINGDOM OF LAOS 1951 – 1975:  http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0545/index0545_025.htm

%23137%23138

%23139#140

Scott: #137-40P (Mi #193-6)

Issued: 7.9.1966

International Letter Writing Week

#63-2 Inside #137-40: Laos #63O (Mi #100)

Scott: #140aP (Mi #BL41)

(Thanks to Lou Guadagno)

KINGDOM OF LAOS 1951 – 1975: http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0545/index0545_046.htm

#223-2%23224-2

#C19#C84-2

Scott: #223-5O, #C84O (Mi #323-6)

Issued: 2.11.1971

20th Anniversary, Laotian Stamps

#15-2 Inside #223: Laos #15O (Mi #17)

#C25-2 Inside #224: Laos #C25O (Mi #64)

#C19 Inside #225: Laos #C19O

#C27-2 Inside #C84: Laos #C27O (Mi #70)

#223a

Scott: #223aO (Mi #BL49)

#15-2 Inside #223a: Laos #15O (Mi #17)

#10-2 Inside #223a: Laos #10O (Mi #15)

#10 Inside #223a: Laos #8O (Mi #14)

Thanks to Dr. Eli Moallem

KINGDOM OF LAOS 1951 – 1975:  http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0545/index0545_072.htm

%23244-2#245-2

#C114#c115

Scott: #244-5P, #C114P, #115O (Mi #376-8, 389)

Issued: 30.4.1974 / 9.10.1974

Centenary, UPU

Inside #244-5, #C114-5: Stamp on Envelope

#C115a-2

Scott: #C115aO (Mi #BL50)

Thanks to Dr. Eli Moallem for the scans

KINGDOM OF LAOS 1951 – 1975: http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0545/index0545_081.htm

#306#307

#308

Scott: #306-9O

Issued: 18.1.1979

15th Anniversary, Asian-Oceanic Postal Union

Inside #306, #309: Stamp on Envelope

Inside #307-8: Stamps at post office

Scott: #426HO, #426JO, #426KP, #426TO, #426UO

Issued: 00.00.1982

Laos #306-9 Overprint 1982 in red and black

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert

[International Stamp Exhibition "Bangkok '83" - Bangkok, Thailand, type ]

Scott: #480P

Issued: 04.08.1983

International Stamp Exhibition "Bangkok '83" - Bangkok, Thailand

Inside #480: Emblem in Margin

Scott: #508BO

Issued: 00.00.1983

Laos #306 Overprint 1983 in red

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert

Scott: #676EO, #676GO

Issued: 00.00.1985

Laos #306 & #308 Overprint 1985 in red

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert

#714

Scott: #714P

Issued: 22.5.1986

AMERIPEX '86

Inside #714: Emblem in Margin

#795

Scott: #795P

Issued: 12.5.1987

CAPEX '87

#282 Inside #795: Canada #282P

Lou Guadagno wrote: There are no SoS in this group (Laos Sc #788-94), only the s/s, #795 is SoS. All are pre-philatelic except the 6k (cover dated 1861), and are reproductions of actual maritime mail from Montreal, Canada. 

I expanded my SoS collection to include Postal Markings in 1974, when I realized, that in addition to SoS issues with postmarked stamps and covers I had already collected, many other stamps were reproducing just cancels and postal markings with significant/historical dates or were just interesting, and it just felt right to include them.  In an article I wrote which never made it to a Signal, I opened with:  "When you collect ham on stamps, ham and eggs on stamps are okay to collect, but what do you do with just eggs on stamps?  You collect them, too!".  Over the years, more and more postal bureaus recognized their importance to postal history and postal markings began to appear regularly.  Since I keep my collection in chronological order, it is quite easy to see this growth, and to me they just naturally go together.

#812

Scott: #812PP

Issued: 2.9.1987

HAFNIA '87

Inside #812: Emblem in Margin

Lao PDR Mi 1200Lao PDR Mi 1201Lao PDR Mi 1202

Lao PDR Mi 1203Lao PDR Mi 1204Lao PDR Mi 1205

Scott: #1009O, #1010-3P, #1014O

Issued: 26.4.1990

Stamp World London '90

GB #1 te Inside #1009: G.B. #1 [R-I]

Visit: The Penny Black Plate project http://www.arcieriminerva.it/SOS/homeSOS.htm

#1 Inside #1010: US #1O

 #3 Inside #1011: France #3O

#1 Inside #1012: Sardinia #1O

#3 Inside #1013: Indochina #3P

Postage stamps and postal history of Indochina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamps_and_postal_history_of_Indochina

#1 Inside #1014: Spain #1P(Spain, Bulgaria)

#1015

Scott: #1015O

#272 Inside #1015: Laos #272P

Scott: #????P

Thanks to Dr. Eli Moallem

Scott: #????-?O

Issued: 05.02.2010

Rural Life in Laos

 Inside #????: Laos #39O

Marc Leguay, a French artist, lived in Laos for many years. He designed most of stamps of the Kingdom of Laos (1951-1975). He had a number of concubinage and 20 children! They were all used as models for his paintings.

A reporter for Life Magazine did an article about Laos Stamps took this picture - a mistress of Leguay seem called Nang Sy and her daughter Eliane. This photo was inspired Leguay and he combined it in one of his paintings (See above) and of course in the stamp issued in 1957. Obviously the new stamp from 2010 is the mirror image without giving the credit to Leguay.

Thanks to Dr. Eli Muallem

Scott: #????-?O

Issued: 13.3.2015

50th Anniversary National Posts and Telecommunications Day

 

sos laos 2015 (2) Inside #???? (In background of the s/s on airmail cover): Laos ???O (10,000k stamp as left design)

Scott: #????-?O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

Scott: #2112aO

Issued: 13.3.2025

60th Anniversary of National Post and Telecommunications Day

Inside #2112a (In background of the s/s on airmail cover): TBI

Scott: #2112a (imperf)O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

Best website related:

KINGDOM OF LAOS 1951 – 1975

http://www.japhila.cz/hof/0545/index0545a.htm

Why I Collect Laos by Mike Johnson

http://www.sicp-online.org/archive/laos_001.htm

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Laos #1 for Grenada

#10

Laos #8

#10-2

Laos #10

#15-2

Laos #15

Laos #39

#C19

Laos #C19

#C25-2

Laos #C25

#C26-2

Laos #C26

#C27-2

Laos #C27

  moz ss 4 v-3-- sos laos J2 postage due 1952moz ss 4 v- 3-- sos laos J4 postage due 1952

Laos #J2 & #J4 for Mozambique

#63-2

Laos #63

#68-2

Laos #68 (OTW – BOB 9.23)

#78-2#79-2

Scott: #78-9

michel%20Block%2029Amichel Block 29B

Laos Mi #BL 29A-BO

#223-2%23224-2

#C19#C84-2

Laos #223-5, #C84

#223a

Laos #223a

#c115

Laos #C115

#C115a-2

Laos #C115a (Mi #BL50)

#306#307

#308

Scott: #306-9O

Laos #426H, #426J, #426T, #426U

Laos #508B

[Wwf - Animali in via di estinzione, Scrivi AAF]

Laos #517 for Chad

Laos #519 for Dijibouti

sos laos 520 1984

Laos #520 for Sierra Leone, Dijibouti

Laos #676E, #676G

ss4v b--sos laos 692 1986

Laos #692 for Uganda

#714

Laos #714

sos laos 761 1987

Laos #761 for Guinea Bissau

sos laos 843 1988

Laos #843 for Guinea Bissau

sos laos 845 1988

Laos #845 for Guinea Bissau

Laos #901c for Guinee

sos laos 978 1990

Laos #978 for Mozambique

Lao PDR Mi 1200

Laos #1009

Lao PDR Mi 1205

Laos #1014

#1015

Laos #1015


Laos #1174 for Dijibouti

sos solomon ss 4v--laos 1177 1994

Laos #1177 for Solomon Islands, Dijibouti

 Laos #1179 for Dijibouti

Laos #????-?

Laos #1625c for Dijibouti

Laos #1632b for Dijibouti

Laos #1722 for Dijibouti

 

Laos #???? (Unlisted 2008) for Central Africa

st thomas prince ss 1v margin--sos laos 1920 2008

Laos #1920 for St. Tome and Prince

Laos #????-?

2003 illegal

Laos (illegal) for North Korea