How much longer?

How do you sell stamps when collectors buying them can't use them? Make a record of it.

A little more than 15 centimeters and a half is this French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF) issued on 21 June 2007. It depicts the sun path upon the Antarctic horizon on the Southern Winter solstice.


It is equivalent to 7 or 8 Marianne definitives (here is the commemorative booklet for the Marianne de Cheffer) or two se-tenant pair of the France-Greenland French issue.

What can you do with it? Nothing in Metropolitan France, unless the discovery of a pedagogic picture about our world in the solar system for 0,90 € (less than a well-sized poster).

If you hang around one of the five TAAF districts (where you can not put a foot unless authorized by French authorities...), you can post a letter to the world (you can have a better price if you write to France, its overseas and the former colonies).

For another beautiful stamps from highly philatelicly valuable territories, visit the Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau. I only wish all Metropolitan stamps were so inspired and inspiring on mail.