Laos and Liberia stamps proudly display their efforts to combat hunger.

Laos features fishing, rice fields, wheat threshing and grain cutting.

Liberia proudly displays the seals of the United Nations and the Food and Agriculture Organization.

 Korea, Kuwait and Malagasy combat hunger with fertile farmland and livestock.

 Korea with farm oulines and wheat.

Iraq joins the world in the fight against hunger and famine.

 These beautiful stamps raise funds necessary to combat starvation.

They were printed for Iraq by Bundesdruckerei Berlin Germany. 

Iraq, Jugoslavia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika join the worldwide effort to eradicate hunger.

Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika use the machinery of agriculture with Tractor Farming.

A man proudly raises a corn stalk.

Greece, Grenada, Hong Kong, Italy, Ivory Coast and Jamaica join the fight against famine.

Italy 1963 "Broadcasting Seed" & "Man Harvesting Wheat".

Ecuador, Fiji, Finland, French Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gilbert and Ellice Islands join the fight against hunger.

Ecuador's shovels to end hunger.

The Dominican Republic joins the battle to end hunger.

The Dominican Republic's special souvenir sheet represents the world campaign against hunger.

The fight against hunger continues throughout Africa and South America.

The "Empty Bowl, Mother & Child" of Chile will seize your heart.

The juxtaposition of "Primitive and Modern Harvesting" in the Congo represents the modern effort to combat hunger.

The British Commonwealth is dedicated to assisting nations in the war against hunger.

To support the decision of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to establish the world campaign against hunger, Burma issued special postage stamps. Two stamp designs, 1954 definitive issue of 10 Pyas in yellowish green and 50 Pyas in blue. These designs were originally the designs of the 1949 first anniversary independence issue stamps, a cultivator with his yoke of oxen plowing a paddy, and a group of cultivators at work in a paddy field. The currency of the stamps were changed to the Burmese Monetary System. These stamps were overprinted with the words "FREEDOM FROM HUNGER" in the center of the stamps in violet and red colors. These stamps were sold to the public on March 21, 1963.

The British Commonwealth joins the fight against hunger.

Continuing the fight against hunger and malnutrition.

Here's another nice discovery from the old trunk.

Fantastic piece of aviation history originally sold by the Fidelity Stamp Company of Washington, D.C.

Small tear at top center of the cachet, but otherwise a beautiful historical cover from Stanley Gibbons in 1939.

The original enclosed memorandum,  with historical details of the flight and cancellation sequence, is below for you.