Making choices!
Most MFN members want to see a motorcycle on their philatelic items, but sometimes material without motorcycle is also worth to look at. Sometimes we face the dilemma whether or not to report something, and as you know, sometimes we make the decision to report or not depending on the questions you ask us about it.
And we have another one.
We don't have many stamps to report on "car tricycles", but Morgan is certainly a car worth mentioning in relation to motorcycles. Antigua & Barbuda released a block on April 28, 2021 to mark 70 Years of Morgan Plus Four.
On the block an accompanying text about the origin of this vehicle. We read that in 1909 H.F.S. Morgan rolled his first motorcycle-powered tricycle out of the factory. He remained faithful to this design for 27 years. In 1936, 4-wheelers were made for the first time in the Morgan factory.
Another debatable stamp is the Vietnamese stamp issued on August 19, 2020 to celebrate the seventieth+5 anniversary of the Vietnam Police. In the top left corner of the seven, something of a helmet and fairing of a motorcyclist or bicycle can be seen in the image.
The bigger you make the picture, the worse it looks. So this is one for the collector who wants to have everything.
And what about this one. A block of Paraguay to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Monsignor Lasagna Salesian college. Issued July 23, 2021.
On the street is a motorcyclist or…. a bike. In all our wisdom, given its position on the road, we choose the first one.
And of course, we will increasingly have to deal with electric vehicles. Due to all the environmental developments these appear more and more often on our little gems.
Romania, for example, is this year issuing a stamp and block to promote Green Friday (travel on foot, by bicycle or electric) that shows an electric autoped.
Are we going to add it to the collection? Yes! Release date: 28-01-2022.
On the collector sheets the lady is depicted driving to the left, but on another sheet from the series she is shown on the label, rolling to the right.
No, we can no longer ignore it, electric vehicles are there and will come more and more, and if we put a 39 cc Solex in the album, these should also be part of the collection. But of course it is easy to exclude them, of course.
James Bond and his most villainous opponents also like to play with "mopeds". So it's not surprising that they sometimes appear on a stamp for our collection. But the images are sometimes very meagre, and sometimes not on the stamp itself.
We are of course already familiar with the older issues of Great Britain. But recently a Smilers sheet, or as they are now called, a collector's sheet, of the latest Bond-Movie has appeared on which an image of a motorcycle can be found. Admittedly on an attached label, and only the steering wheel of a bandits moped, but still…
The motorcycle can be found on the second label on the left. It is the bandit Primo, played by Dali Benssalah, in a pursuit scene, shot in Materna, Italy.
Spectacular in this scene is Bond's jump over the city wall on his Triumph-Bond-Special, pictured here on a coin.
But what I want to discuss are the motorcycle related issues by Rebel states. Civil war is raging in many countries of the earth. These countries are sometimes divided into more or less independent regions that also form their own postal service. The stamps of those areas are usually not recognized by the UPU, and we also consider these stamps to be unofficial. And yet there are countless examples of states that were first labeled as rebellious and now have an official status. For example, consider Indonesia. I'll show a few examples of James Bond here.
In the past, these sheets often looked quite bad, but they are getting an increasingly professional look.
So, those were just a few examples of what we want to advise you on, and possibly save you from spending (too) much money for this stuff.
In short, we continue to search and assess. And what you don't want in your album: just ignore it.
Hans de Kloet
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