Showing posts with label Upper Volta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Upper Volta. Show all posts

15 June 2011

UNESCO Campaign - Upper Volta







Stamps and First Day Covers from Haute-Volta (now Burkina Faso). Issued in 1964, for the UNESCO Campaign to save Nubian monuments, it depicts a colossal statue of Ramses II at Abu Simbel.

14 April 2009

UNESCO/Nubian Monument - Upper Volta







These are really lovely, big, colourful stamps, issued in 1978 for the UNESCO Campaign to Save Philae, showing Horus and Cartouches, and the Goddess Isis. (SG 504-5)