For the following months I have planned to present the
best cover (from a philatelic point of view) from
each country in my collection. I will do this in an alphabetical order,
starting with A. If you have a better cover, or if you have a cover from a
country I do not have, please send me an eMail, clicking here:
This month its the turn of ANGOLA (Spanish postal administration), next month we continue with ANTIGUA & BARBUDA.
I can show this FDC with the first Angolan Volleyball stamp. It shows the (blue) First Day cancel (killing the stamp). But the cover was also postally used, since it was sent from Luanda (the capital of Angola) to Sofia in Bulgaria five years and two days after the first day of issue (the postal cancel shows the date of Sept 5th, 1986, while the first day was on Set 3rd, 1981). The stamps don't seem to have lost their postal validity having been killed by the first day cancel and used more than five years later.