A few countries issued a stamp to honour Dr. Albert Schweitzer the founder of a hospital in Lambaréné, in Africa.
The hospital is built on the banks of the Ogooue River in Gabon, on the stamps you can see dugout canoes, “ouaro” a generic term used in Gabon for a canoe.
It are long narrow dugout canoes with 2 or 3 thwarts, on the river paddled by a sharp- bladed paddle, some poled or sailed.
Length up to 5 metre.
Source: Internet.
Netherland 1975 50c sg?, scott?
Pakistan 1975 2r25 sg 383, scott?
Monaco 1955 2F/200F sg505,506,507. Scott?
Congo (Brazzaville) 1988 240f sg?
Gabon 1975 240f sg1117, scott?
Niger 1975 100F sg?, scott?
Rwanda 1976 30c sg?, scott?
ALBERT SCHWEITZER and OUARO CANOE
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