COVER N. 374 - MALAYSIA

Postmark: Pusat Meo Nasional (?) Selangor, Malaysia - 06.12.2023

Posted on the 6yh December; received on the 19th December 2023

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Another of Ravindra's extremely interesting covers, this time from Malaysia. Thanks a lot, Ravindra!

Left to right, top to bottom:

Four stamp set all of identical face value - 60 sen - dedicated to Malayan marine fauna, issued on 21MAR2012. The beautiful illustrations depict:

Blue sea star (Linckia laevigata)

Leopard Moray Eel (Gymnothorax melanospilos)

Red-spotted Coral Crab (Trapezia rufopunctata)

Mandarinfish (Synchiropus splendidus)

Four stamps of a five stamp set 1; 2x 30; 50 sen; 5 ringgit , issued for Stamp Week 2009 on 07DEC2029, themed on Malayan Arachnids.  Again, the illustrations are absolutely marvellous and further to the general portrait of the species there is also a side panel highlighting a more detailed area of the subject. Species depicted are:

Golden Orb-web Spider (Nephila maculata)

St Andrew's Cross Spider (Argiope versicolor)

Curved Spiny Spider (Gasteracantha arcuata)

Malayan Fighting Spider (Thiania bhamoensis)

The set includes also a souvenir sheet with a single  hexagonal stamp  - 5 ringgit - depicting a Black Emperor Scorpion (Heterometrus longimanus).

Positions 1,2 and 5 of bottom row, three stamps from a six stamp definitive issue (5;10;20;30;40;50 sen) dated of 31DEC2007, flowers on the cover stamps are:

Chinese Hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis)

Hydrangea macrophylla

Cacao tree  (Theobroma cacao)

Stamps on position 3 is of a six stamp definitive set issued on 21FEB2017, themed on Malayan orchids. With a face value of 1 ringgit, it depicts an Aranda (Arachnis flos-aeris).

Finally, stamp on position 4 was issued on january 2011, as a reissue of a stamp included in a definitive set themed on garden flowers. issued on 2007. With a face value of 2 ringgit, it depicts a Golden trumpet (Allamanda cathartica).

The postmark hails from the State of Selangor, one of the 13 in the Malayan federation.