Sunday, January 21, 2018

X is for Xiphias gladius

These wonderful marine fauna stamps came from Eva in Morocco some time ago. Fortunately for me I haven't shown them before, so it gives me an 'X' in the Sunday Stamps A-Z journey, since the scientific name for the swordfish is Xiphias gladius.



The only downside to these lovely stamps is their tiny size - they are even smaller than the machine UK definitives, and so the details are hard to see without magnification.

Here is the full set (click to enlarge):



18 comments:

  1. I didn't find any X stamps for today. So I'm glad that I have contributed to Sunday Stamps, at least, with this! :)

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    1. You are often very helpful with Sunday Stamps!

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  2. Beautiful stamps, and great finding! Thanks to your blog the pictures magnify 'automatically'! :-)

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  3. What a shame they are so small. Fish have so many little details making them beautiful.

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    1. Yes, it is a pity. Thankfully the scanner enlarges them quite a bit.

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  4. I'm not a fan of small stamps but on the plus side one could get quite a seascape of these on an envelope.

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    1. I did think of this envelope as a mini seascape :)

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  5. Sel-adhesive stamps in Morocco tend to be this size. Me too, I find them too small, almost lost on the envelopes I sent!

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    1. A bit too small for my old eyes - I could hardly read the text!

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  6. Jolis timbres ,c'est plus agréable que les têtes couronnées !

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  7. Glad you showed us this swordfish for 'X' as it all gave us the chance to see the rest of the stamps on a fabulous sheet.

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    1. Definitely one of the more interesting Moroccan issues.

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  8. what a wonderful set of stamps! and well spotted for the 'x'-theme :)

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