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100th Anniversary of the pilot service on the Dutch Antilles

Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:33 pm
by aukepalmhof
For the 100th Anniversary of the pilot service on the Dutch Antilles a set of stamps were issued in 1982.
I have not any information on the watercraft depict on the stamps.

70c Depict a ship and a rowing pilot boat from the time when the service commenced.
85c A pilot boat approaching a cruise liner, with a chart of the six islands which formed the Dutch Antilles.
1 Fl. A pilot boat alongside a cargo ship with a pilot climbing on board via the pilot ladder.

Netherlands Antilles 1982 70c/1Fl. Sg 769/771, scott472/474