The 1965 child welfare set features insects. One stamp shows a stag beetle; the other two, a squash bug species native to parts of West Africa and Fernando Po.
The 1966 child welfare set. The middle value shows St Isabel of Hungary, better known in the English-speaking world as St Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), a daughter of a Hungarian king, who gave away her wealth when she was widowed at the age of 20 and became a Franciscan tertiary.
The theme of the 1966 stamp day set was monkeys: the greater white-nosed monkey on the 10c and 1p 50c values, and the moustached monkey on the 40c and 4p.
On the 1967 stamp day set, an African linsang (an omnivorous cat-like mammal), a bushbaby, and Lord Derby's scaly-tailed squirrel, a gliding nocturnal species of squirrel.
1968 was the centenary of the first stamps of Fernando Po. This was marked by this set, showing the arms of Fernando Po and one of the original 1868 stamps.
The 1968 child welfare set shows three signs of the zodiac: libra (the scales), leo (the lion), and aquarius (the water-carrier). This was the last set issued while Fernando Po was an overseas province of Spain: on 12 October 1968 it was united with Rio Muni to form the republic of Equatorial Guinea.
Since I supposedly focus on the pre-1940 stamps, I'll try to post a few earlier stamps. I pulled out a small lot of Fernando Po that I acquired in 2011. Yeah, I know, it's about time I sorted/IDed them.
Here are some King Alfonso XIII stamps from the 1899 series.
2017 Scott #53-57, catalog value = $23.50
I still need to move these into my main Fernando Po collection...
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