For those MFN members who also include traffic safety for motorcyclists in their collection here a discovery from Dr. Kaboom.
Unfortunately we don't yet have a neat image of it, but the meaning of the stamp from Wallis and Futuna is clear. On the stamp, issued on January 23rd 2019, we see a helmeted person. It concerns public road safety, and because car drivers usually don't wear a helmet, it must be the driver of a motorized two (or three) wheeler.
More traffic safety:
Our Australian member Yvonne van Netten pointed us to the cancellation above. The text: "Stay alert! There's a life riding on it". The vehicle looks like a scooter, but it can also be a scootmobile or light motorcycle.
We already noticed a few times that mirrored images are easily used on stamps, but when JK from H asked me to identify an unknown motorcycle brand on an FDC this was also new to me. I could not place the logo on the air conductor. But luckily Joop helped me out, and told me that it concerns a Husqvarna.
Philately is a contraction of the Greek words phileon (φιλεων) en ateleia (ατηλεια) which literally mean "love" and "free of taxes". The word philately has been proposed for the first time in 1864 in a stamp magazine by the French collector Georges Herpin.
Collecting stamps is a big hobby for some, but regarded as totally outdated by others. Stamps are collected by country, but sometimes also by theme. In some countries large numbers of stamps are printed especially for collectors. The largest stamp collection in the world is owned by the British Museum in London. Also the Dutch Museum for Communication in The Hague has a large collection, with amongst others a piece of the most rare stamp in the whole world, the Blue Mauritius.
Although not (yet) a three wheeler, still an announcement of a stamp from Poland with on it the Polish TRIGGO, a so-called "Tilted Scooter" to come.
On November 26th 2018 the Poczta Polska has brought out a stamp issue with the theme "100 year patents". They did this with a sheet of 4 stamps, and on the stamp in the upper left we see a prototype of this covered scooter.
This model still has 4 wheels, probably for stability, but the coming final model will get only 3. Special on this vehicle is that not the front wheels are used for steering but the rear wheel.
The front axle gradually widens when the speed exceeds 25 kh/hr and narrows again at lower speeds, which makes it easy to triple in traffic jams.
No idea when this vehicle can be found at motorcycle(?) dealers, but I am going to follow this development.
Hans de Kloet
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