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The postage stamp war for the Falkland Islands
Albert-Friedrich Gruene of the Falkland Island Philatelic Study Group offers a fascinating insight into Britain and Argentina’s use of the postage stamp over the past 77 years in an illustrated ‘battle’ for the Falklands. The article was published in Penguin News. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules'They’ve got the impertinence to claim the Islands'
Feb 18th, 2013 - 07:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nothing changes, but this was all finally SORTED out in 1982 and Argentinas impertinence well and truly STAMPED on.
My favourite photo from my Falklands visit some years ago is self and partner on the steps of the Stanley Post Office, with the post office sign with its prominent crown over our heads, and red pillar box and phone booths just on one side. It beautifully captures the flavour of the place. No doubt most tourists to the Falklands have precisely the same photo.
Feb 18th, 2013 - 09:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0They just thought that they could get away with it.
Feb 18th, 2013 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0They would claim anything if they thought no one would miss it!
l'm surprised that they haven't claimed the Philippines.
The Philippines were Spanish 350 years, maybe Argentina “inherited” them from Spain. lol
You should check out the back of an argentine passport.
Feb 18th, 2013 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Seriously.
@2 Some places have been left more British than Britain. I am just back from Malta, which although a Republic now, still cherish their red pillar boxes (all freshly painted) and the classic phone boxes, which sadly are fast disappearing in Britain. Hopefully the FIG, like Malta, will hang on to theirs.
Feb 18th, 2013 - 11:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0I never knew stamps could be so interesting. The historian in me finds the idea of a stamp war quite remarkable.
Feb 18th, 2013 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 I did just that.
Feb 18th, 2013 - 02:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good Lord, they have the temerity to show British Antarctic Territory on their passports.
I suppose if they get away with that long enough, they will claim it to be true.
If we did that, Argentina would be straight to the UN.
@7 There is no British Antarctic Territory, and there never will be.
Feb 18th, 2013 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I can guarantee you the UK will never EVER hold an ounce of official land in Argentine Antarctica. Self-determination, demographics, geography, length of presence, all in our favor. 21st century and your country, the most immoral force that has ever existed in human history, is still trying to grab land and playing colonialism.
You are a pathetic culture.
@8:
Feb 18th, 2013 - 02:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nah mate, You are the pathetic ones with Lies even printed on the back of your passports.
That is truly 'pathetic'.
There is no lie, you Brits simply cannot see reality without losing it. But, on the matter of Antarctica there is nothing you can do. We hold the self-determination card, we hold the longest continuous presence card (everyone else including you LEFT the continent), we hold the population card, we hold the geographic card, and we even hold the claim card, because we were the first to incorporate Antarctica as integral part of our federal extension, not just a mere “territory”. So we outwitted you even there.
Feb 18th, 2013 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So you see, there is nada you can do without looking like a colonial country... which would shoot down your Falkland's argument too!
Argentine Antarctica, you are always welcome to get your British passport stamped by Buenos Aires though!
@8 Nostrils
Feb 18th, 2013 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I can tell you are merely jesting for all the reverse is true from your wild list. Nostrils, you seem to think you spontaneousily sprouted from the ground, from a handful of magic beans. The truth is that you are and your neighbours are of spanish descent or at the very least, european descent. The spanish empire was the 5th largest of all time and it was a bloodthirsty empire, the conquistadors slaughtering natives every step of the way. So before you castigate the british empire, remember, you are tainted and unclean, you are no angel, you are the culmination of the sins of your fathers... just like every briton you meet. And don't go saying 'oh, you brits murdered 10,000 people.. we spanish only murdered 5000 people' (so arbitrary numbers)... because you'll only embarrass yourself... knobend.
@12
Feb 18th, 2013 - 03:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentines are not European.
Except you can't get to Antarctica without help from another country.
Feb 18th, 2013 - 03:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pity
I am sure if your “scientists” need anything they can contact our base there. I am sure they have heat and food.
I am kinda surprised CFK hasn't announce a fast ferry transport system to the continent.
I'm sure it must be on the to-do list somewhere
hahaha
12 Nostrol'
Feb 18th, 2013 - 03:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What is your ethnic background?
“Argentines are not European.” lol funnest thing i've read today!. I do wonder where “Think” thinks the population of Argentina come from.
Feb 18th, 2013 - 03:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0British Antarctic Territory claimed in 1908
Argentine Antarctica claimed 1942
Can't make this shit up! :)
I picked up an argentinians passport for him at an airport check-in a while back
Feb 18th, 2013 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0see below.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/PasaporteArgentino_Contratapa.jpg/220px-PasaporteArgentino_Contratapa.jpg
@12 Trollbias
Feb 18th, 2013 - 03:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your rantings are getting more pathetic as the days go by.
The really sad fact is - you don't realise it.
Nostrils you sad deluded numpty.
Feb 18th, 2013 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just because you've broken away from the mothership that absolves your forefathers of their sins? So that's your get out of jail card? Hilarious.
Not only are there spanish roots but plenty of Italians with fascist roots, those running from the allies (though I'm not too worried about our spaghetti friends this minute) in WW2. I'm afraid Nostrils you must face facts, Argentina was born through the shedding of blood, lots of native blood. Christ almighty your school history lessons must so full of falacies. Poor you.
Ha Ha, stamp war! Just about the right sort of war for the Rgs to try. They failed in the court, they failed to win a war where they had the element of surprise and they have failed to stop the self determination referendum. Surely they can win this one, after all these european colonists are great at printing worthless Pesos they might be able to print great stamps, as well as Dance the Tango and whinge and weep about the Falklands oil and Queen Elizabeth land!
Feb 18th, 2013 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 019 CaptainSilver
Feb 18th, 2013 - 06:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nostrol' has already told you. They are not European. Why do you keep insisting they are? So what if they're white? So what if they speak Spanish? So what if some 86 percent of its 40 million population has European roots, mostly Italian and Spanish? So what if they promote themselves as the Europe of South America. So what?
THEY ARE NOT EUROPEAN AND NEVER HAVE BEEN. THEY ARE SOUTH AMERICANS. THEY POPPED UP OUT OF NOWHERE.
@12
Feb 18th, 2013 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Course you are , Explain how Argentina was formed then, EUROPEANS colonised it, DUMMY
@20 maybe they were grown out of soy beans? what an arsehole nostril is
Feb 18th, 2013 - 07:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0l think the Argentine Secret Service is finding & funding misfits like nostrils & sussie etc, winding them up, then letting them go, just to see what sort of damage they can do.
Feb 18th, 2013 - 09:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 023 Isolde
Feb 18th, 2013 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think you're almost correct except that it's the British Secret Service.
Chuckle chuckle
@23,@24
Feb 18th, 2013 - 11:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think it was the CIA, pesky Americans.oops sorry yankee
@23 Isolde
Feb 18th, 2013 - 11:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh sussie sussie //// sussie cute oh sussie cute
she is protected by the USA, Argentina and the Taliban
by the way, there is nothing mercopress can do to keep her quiet!
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Goodness thingshave moved along since I last looked.
Feb 19th, 2013 - 09:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Who is this idiot Nostraldamus ? Obviously not quite the full ticket. He states:
''Antarctica there is nothing you can do. We hold the self-determination card, we hold the longest continuous presence card (everyone else including you LEFT the continent), we hold the population card, we hold the geographic card, and we even hold the claim card, because we were the first to incorporate Antarctica as integral part of our federal extension, not just a mere “territory”. So we outwitted you even there. ''
Never heard such tripe. You hold no cardsat all. Only Argentina would have the arrogance to claim Antarctica is actually part of their Federal country. A place they have no say in or regard for. Do Brits have to ask Argentine permission to go there or show passports to RGs , certainly not. Can they defend the place or stop us doing whatever we wish there, certainly not. So how can it be Argentine ?
UK administers the area for the good of all countries keeping it safe and providing an Ice Patrol Vessel for humanitarian reasons. We take our duty in that regard seriously, and the International Community is happy with that arrangement for the time being. One thing is for sure no part of Antarctica will ever be 'a federal extension' of any country, certainly not Queen Elizabeth Land. Time to bring out another stamp, or have we done that ?
What about a set of 4 stamps featuring an Astute sub, a T45 a Eurofighter and the thing that scares the Argentine military the most, Prince William in his unarmed yellow search and rescue helicopter?
Feb 19th, 2013 - 03:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The British are militarising the Malvinas, look here is the evidence!
Feb 19th, 2013 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUlgaA1ccZU
@27 Ted
Feb 19th, 2013 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Snotty is our resident court jester on these boards along with Sussie and Pirate HUnter aka Alex Vargas. On a slow news day its quite fun to bate them
20 Poor Joe Bloggs talking nonsense all day, makes him patheticcccccccc
Feb 19th, 2013 - 10:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 01800 after 300 years of colonization of Sapin in SAm, after having increased and multiplied our mixed population (they didnt and couldnt kill all the indegenous, still are many communites living here) and become millions over thousands of colonisators, we became a people that recovered its land.
In 1900, immigration introduced to a sovereign country more people that decided to be argentine.Now immigration is more between SAm countries.
We have 56 % of heritage from indegenous.
This continent its of southamericans, not of europeans, because nobody here chooses to be a colony of EUrope. Get it.
Malen
Feb 19th, 2013 - 11:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“This continent its of southamericans, not of europeans, because nobody here chooses to be a colony of EUrope.”
Really? Well the people of French Guiana are still part of France. And in a couple of weeks the people of the Falkland Islands will choose to remain British.
I guess they can't be South Americans too. Poor Malen so discriminating. So racist.
No wonder the Falkland Islands choose not be part of Argentina.
Malen And where did YOUR grandfather come from?
Feb 20th, 2013 - 12:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0@30 That seems a bit cruel, they appear to be a very soft target.
Feb 20th, 2013 - 09:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0@31 'This continent its of southamericans, not of europeans, because nobody here chooses to be a colony of EUrope. Get it.'
Hate to contradict you, but there are some Islands who I believe are about to choose not to be a colony of South America. get it.
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