Buriatia is in southern Siberia near Lake Baykal on the Mongolian border and such the Buryat people are Buddhists as well. The collapse of the Soviet Union has created a gold mine for stamp collectors. The local governments have issued some wonderful stamps in an effort to sell them to the world market and not even have to provide the associated service of mailing letters with them. This is a real boon when you see such lovely examples as these stamps put out by Buriatia. Unfortunately the stamp on the right appears to no longer be available.
Calve Island is an island off the edge of Scotland.
There seem to be three of four of these whose major source of income is issuing topical stamps for sales around the world. This set was issued in 1984 and the emblem in the bottom left is for Rotary International. The emblem in the bottom right is the Rotary International. The Gambia is a long and narrow country in West Africa that parallels and takes in both sides of the Gambia River. It is surrounded by Senegal on all sides, except on the Atlantic coast, and for this reason the two countries have a lot of ethnic and cultural ties.