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In the Scott catalog, just before Djibouti
It is a French colony located at the Northern end of Madagascar. In the late 1890s it was a separate colony but is now part of Madagascar.
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I can find it in the catalog; I just can't find it in my album. I am assuming that the blue Scott International album has spaces for at least a few Diego Suarez stamps somewhere.
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I can't remember any other examples right now but I know I have run into this at least once before. I believe that the reason I had to put Eastern Silesia in my Poland album is because I couldn't find it in my blue Scott International album. I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure! I think I had the problem with another small obscure country but I can't remember which one!!
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Roger, I don't have a Blue Scott album. I assume you looked under Madagascar? Most Diego Suarez are expensive, still there are enough mid valued stamps that I would have thought they were listed somewhere.
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It's not with Madagascar. I'll just wait and someday I will happen upon it when I am working on something else.
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04:51:16pm
"I'll just wait and someday I will happen upon it when I am working on something else"
Don't count on it, I remember carefully looking through the whole album for a particular country and it really wasn't there!!
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05:20:24pm
I don't have a Big Blue on hand at the moment, but this site says it's there and gives location in the album for various editions
http://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/201 ...
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Pretty sure Diego Suarez is hiding out with Waldo and Nemo. Maybe Dora could help you find them.
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Try looking after Croatia and before Cuba in part I.
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In my part I it is immediately after Cuba, but they don't show much! I knew I'd seen it somewhere! But I still can't find Eastern Silesia, can anyone find it in your edition of Big Blue?
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06:48:31pm
From the same site as above: (different page -- there is a complete menu down the right side)
http://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/201 ...
Kinds of Blue
The '97 and '69 editions do not have these plebiscite stamps in the album.
The '47 and '41 editions are identical in coverage. The page is found after the Dutch Indies section.
Roy
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Thanks for all the suggestions regarding Diego Suarez. Unfortunately, I still can't find it. I may have to insert a blank page for it, which is what I did for Eastern Silesia too.
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07:46:21pm
I found a good solution for Eastern Silesia. My Minkus Poland album had some of them so I just put the rest of them on the facing page. I still need two of them but since there are so many fake overprints, who really knows for sure?
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don't KNOW, but the UK and US have administered the island as military base for a century; possible that it could be found with either?
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If your album is making it difficult for you to collect, perhaps you need a different album!
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"don't KNOW, but the UK and US have administered the island as military base for a century; possible that it could be found with either?"
I think that would be Diego Garcia, which forms part of the British Indian Ocean Territory
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"I think that would be Diego Garcia"
I remember him, he was Zorro!!!
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ah, I added really important, but totally irrelevant information, to the conversation.
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Diego Suarez didn't mean anything to me when I first read the thread, but today I just realized I had been there many years ago. It had its new name of Antsiranana. I came in on a seismic survey vessel which was to work off the west coast of Madagascar. My memory is far too hazy to remember much. I can remember some of the people working on the survey and that the agent was from a Chinese family. I think quite a few local businesses were owned by Chinese ethnic people. All I remember of the town and port was two large French owned tuna boats in and that while drinking a cold beer near the port an old lady was selling very cheap small fresh oysters. I know I was on a crew change out of there. Our flight was out of the capital Antananarivo with an overnight in Port Louis, Mauritius and onward flight to Singapore. We must have flown from Antsiranana to Antananarivo because the roads were very bad on Madagascar. Port Louis in Mauritius was not the tourist beaches on the north of the island. South African wines were cheap and the head of the local drug squad came and introduced himself at the hotel bar, I guess to see who these foreign visitors were. He was a nice guy and took us to a few of the local bars. I wish my memory was better which I think I will blame on the beer and wine
p.s. We are going back more than 30 years ago. I nearly had another job there 20 years or so ago. That would have been on land surveying coal deposits. It didn't happen which was a shame as I would have liked to see their famous lemurs.
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" ... p.s. We are going back more than 30 years ago...."
I resemble that !
Just wait till you are eighty ! ! !
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I just got my first stamp from Diego Suarez and cannot locate it in my blue Scott International album. I'm sure it is sharing a page with some other small stamp issuing entities, but I am not having any luck locating it. Does anyone know where I should look?
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In the Scott catalog, just before Djibouti
It is a French colony located at the Northern end of Madagascar. In the late 1890s it was a separate colony but is now part of Madagascar.
rrr..
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re: Where is Diego Suarez?
I can find it in the catalog; I just can't find it in my album. I am assuming that the blue Scott International album has spaces for at least a few Diego Suarez stamps somewhere.
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re: Where is Diego Suarez?
I can't remember any other examples right now but I know I have run into this at least once before. I believe that the reason I had to put Eastern Silesia in my Poland album is because I couldn't find it in my blue Scott International album. I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure! I think I had the problem with another small obscure country but I can't remember which one!!
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Roger, I don't have a Blue Scott album. I assume you looked under Madagascar? Most Diego Suarez are expensive, still there are enough mid valued stamps that I would have thought they were listed somewhere.
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re: Where is Diego Suarez?
It's not with Madagascar. I'll just wait and someday I will happen upon it when I am working on something else.
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04:51:16pm
re: Where is Diego Suarez?
"I'll just wait and someday I will happen upon it when I am working on something else"
Don't count on it, I remember carefully looking through the whole album for a particular country and it really wasn't there!!
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30 Jun 2022
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re: Where is Diego Suarez?
I don't have a Big Blue on hand at the moment, but this site says it's there and gives location in the album for various editions
http://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/201 ...
Roy
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re: Where is Diego Suarez?
Pretty sure Diego Suarez is hiding out with Waldo and Nemo. Maybe Dora could help you find them.
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re: Where is Diego Suarez?
Try looking after Croatia and before Cuba in part I.
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02:30:01pm
re: Where is Diego Suarez?
In my part I it is immediately after Cuba, but they don't show much! I knew I'd seen it somewhere! But I still can't find Eastern Silesia, can anyone find it in your edition of Big Blue?
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re: Where is Diego Suarez?
From the same site as above: (different page -- there is a complete menu down the right side)
http://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/201 ...
Kinds of Blue
The '97 and '69 editions do not have these plebiscite stamps in the album.
The '47 and '41 editions are identical in coverage. The page is found after the Dutch Indies section.
Roy
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re: Where is Diego Suarez?
Thanks for all the suggestions regarding Diego Suarez. Unfortunately, I still can't find it. I may have to insert a blank page for it, which is what I did for Eastern Silesia too.
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01 Jul 2022
07:46:21pm
re: Where is Diego Suarez?
I found a good solution for Eastern Silesia. My Minkus Poland album had some of them so I just put the rest of them on the facing page. I still need two of them but since there are so many fake overprints, who really knows for sure?
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re: Where is Diego Suarez?
don't KNOW, but the UK and US have administered the island as military base for a century; possible that it could be found with either?
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re: Where is Diego Suarez?
If your album is making it difficult for you to collect, perhaps you need a different album!
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re: Where is Diego Suarez?
"don't KNOW, but the UK and US have administered the island as military base for a century; possible that it could be found with either?"
I think that would be Diego Garcia, which forms part of the British Indian Ocean Territory
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re: Where is Diego Suarez?
"I think that would be Diego Garcia"
I remember him, he was Zorro!!!
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ah, I added really important, but totally irrelevant information, to the conversation.
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re: Where is Diego Suarez?
Diego Suarez didn't mean anything to me when I first read the thread, but today I just realized I had been there many years ago. It had its new name of Antsiranana. I came in on a seismic survey vessel which was to work off the west coast of Madagascar. My memory is far too hazy to remember much. I can remember some of the people working on the survey and that the agent was from a Chinese family. I think quite a few local businesses were owned by Chinese ethnic people. All I remember of the town and port was two large French owned tuna boats in and that while drinking a cold beer near the port an old lady was selling very cheap small fresh oysters. I know I was on a crew change out of there. Our flight was out of the capital Antananarivo with an overnight in Port Louis, Mauritius and onward flight to Singapore. We must have flown from Antsiranana to Antananarivo because the roads were very bad on Madagascar. Port Louis in Mauritius was not the tourist beaches on the north of the island. South African wines were cheap and the head of the local drug squad came and introduced himself at the hotel bar, I guess to see who these foreign visitors were. He was a nice guy and took us to a few of the local bars. I wish my memory was better which I think I will blame on the beer and wine
p.s. We are going back more than 30 years ago. I nearly had another job there 20 years or so ago. That would have been on land surveying coal deposits. It didn't happen which was a shame as I would have liked to see their famous lemurs.
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05 Jul 2022
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re: Where is Diego Suarez?
" ... p.s. We are going back more than 30 years ago...."
I resemble that !
Just wait till you are eighty ! ! !
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