ROYAUME DU LAOS on 4 March 1954 issued a set of three First Day Cover stamps commemorating the Golden Jubilee of King Sisavang Vong (1885-1959). The last king of the forerunner kingdom of Luang Prabang (palace depicted in the stamp), he was the founding monarch of the unified Kingdom of Laos. The stamps depicted three different Lao temples, one from each former Lao Kingdoms: Vientiane, Luang Prabang and Champasak. The temples represented the unification of these three Lao Kingdoms to the Kingdom of Laos under King Sisavang Vong reign. Marc Leguay illustrated the set.
These air mail stamps included:
- 2P blue / violet
- 3P brown / maroon
- 50P black blue / blue-green (not shown)
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Laos was dominated in turn by Burma, China and Siam.
In 1893, France helped the Laotian kingdom drive out foreign invaders and incorporated it into the Indochinese colonial system. Vong worked closely with the French colonial authorities during his reign.
The most valuable of the set is the 50-piaster Laotian Temples airmail stamp . This stamp is in demand by royalty and religion topical collectors, as well as collectors of French colonies and Laos.
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