Irish definitives

[stampie78]

@salmantino, I really like those album pages. Some years ago I got an auction lot of Canada and they came in the Lindner sheets. Alas there was only about three years of pages. I was tempted to buy the rest of the needed pages until I saw the price. Way back then they were a lot cheaper than now and I still couldn't afford them. Similar albums for Canada run about 1200.00 CAD + tax + postage. I don't think my stamps are worth that much.

Lets see some more of your Ireland collection. Very nice.

[youpiao]

Mar 22, 2020 17:35:00 GMT -5 @salmantino said:

On 29 January 1974, the dog design replaced the stag design on the 5p stamp.

I often wonder about these seemingly random decisions to replace an existing value with the same value but a different design. What happened? Did the stag suddenly up his royalty fees for appearing on stamps? Did the dog attempt a coup of the entire series, and get defeated before he could usurp the other values? 

All seriousness aside, though, @salmantino, nice writeup, and nice pages.

[nigelc]

Mar 23, 2020 1:17:31 GMT -5 @salmantino said:

youpiao , I can only speculate. On 29 January 1974, a 10p multi-value coil of 1x2p, 2x1½p and 1x5p was issued. Probably, the change in the design of the 5p stamp has something to do with this. The other two stamps had the dog design. It could also have something to do with a change in the type of postage paid by the 5p stamp.

I suspect it was the latter reason reflecting a desire to keep the standard rate stamp as a (now 5p) dog given that its predecessor had been the 4p dog.