tomiseksj
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Post by tomiseksj on Jul 24, 2013 21:12:21 GMT
Who doesn't love dogs? They're not too demanding, they love you in spite of your faults, and, unlike their feline counterparts, they won't mistake your stamp tray for a litter box. Clearly man's best friend deserves a thread in the topical section. Let me kick things off with this Canis Familiaris featured on a 10k black stamp that Iceland issued on January 24, 1980 (Scott 526). Please show us your dogs on stamps!
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Dogs
Jul 24, 2013 22:07:24 GMT
Post by Perfs14 on Jul 24, 2013 22:07:24 GMT
One of the most popular issues from 2010 in Australia was the "Adopted and adored" set. I have them as maxi cards:
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Dogs
Jul 24, 2013 22:08:38 GMT
Post by Perfs14 on Jul 24, 2013 22:08:38 GMT
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Post by irishjack on Jul 24, 2013 23:11:03 GMT
Dog on stamps. You cant forget this guy the Newfie, I believe this was the first stamp with a dog, the grand daddy
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Post by irishjack on Jul 24, 2013 23:12:39 GMT
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roos
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Jul 26, 2013 10:18:08 GMT
Post by roos on Jul 26, 2013 10:18:08 GMT
Australia 2008 Working Dogs Se-Tenant Strip of 5.
Roos
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Andy Pastuszak
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Jul 26, 2013 12:45:16 GMT
Ireland 1983 Dogs Souvenir Sheet:
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tomiseksj
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Dogs
Aug 10, 2013 21:07:53 GMT
Post by tomiseksj on Aug 10, 2013 21:07:53 GMT
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BC
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Post by BC on Aug 10, 2013 21:21:38 GMT
We adopted Ginger, a 10 year-old Cocker Spaniel Terrier cross last year. She has he own stamp.
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cjd
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Aug 11, 2013 0:00:12 GMT
Post by cjd on Aug 11, 2013 0:00:12 GMT
Here is the missing 2098 from the U.S. set, above, Beagle and Boston Terrier:
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tomiseksj
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Aug 11, 2013 0:12:11 GMT
Post by tomiseksj on Aug 11, 2013 0:12:11 GMT
Thanks!
The set was released after I had decided to not actively pursue post-1980 U.S. issues so I only had the three I posted because I had received them on mail.
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Aug 11, 2013 1:23:44 GMT
When The Mail Went to the Dogs
From "The Postmark", Canada.
Jim wasn't just any dog. He was a mail dog. And he was top dog of four who carried Her Majesty's mail through snow up to their collars from Canmore to Revelstoke B.C. It was the early 1880's and Her Majesty was Queen Victoria. Jim's story came to light at the tail end of this winter — in an age of ZIP codes, automated post offices and even an easier life for the door-to-door mailman — when his last owner, W. A. Beavo, of East Burnaby, B.C., came across an old photo and ancient newspaper clipping. No sissy, Jim didn't travel over plowed sidewalks or open roads in winter. He made his appointed rounds the hard way. As an old news story dramatically put it, "the dogs travelled through toilsome passes and rugged canyons, over steep mountain trails which led along precipitous ledges and over a yawning chasm bridged by a fallen tree .... where a false step meant instant death." Jim and his canine cohorts worked under the command of the late F. C. Lang of Golden, B.C. who had the mail contract from Canmore to Golden City, thence to Farwell (now Revelstoke), a distance of 186 miles. All this was before Canadian Pacific completed laying its tracks between those points. There is no record extant of how long it took Frank Lang and his dogs to make a round, but Mr. Beavo surmises that it must have been several days and that the team was fed and housed en route at railway work gang camps, since the mail-dogs were evidently a connecting link between end of rail and the camps. Although Jim and his master had many hairbreadth escapes from accident and even death — to say nothing of avoiding grizzlies and wildcats which were more numerous then — these hazardous journeys to get the mail through often had their amusing side. Like one Christmas when Frank and Jim had quite a time of it locating a resident of Banff who was the recipient of a huge Christmas pudding mailed all the way from London England. Another story, recorded in the Golden Star of 1885, tells of Senator Robert Green plodding along a completed portion of the right-of-way near Rogers Pass, and following some distance behind Frank and his dogs, when all of a sudden Her Majesty's mail carrier vanished from sight. An alarmed Senator Green hastened to investigate and discovered that "the genial Frank had inadvertently descended into the yawning chasm of the smokestack of a woodburning locomotive that was completely buried in snow." No coddled thoroughbred, Jim was "part Newfoundland and part something else," according to Mr. Beavo. And he was just as rugged and reliable as the hardiest of his island ancestors. On his retirement in 1890 at a ripe old age, he was given to Mr. Beavo then aged five, who kept him as a pet for almost two years. "He got so old and crippled", said Mr. Beavo, "that he finally had to be put out of his misery. Luckily, this happened when I was away at school so I would not know of his barking out." Old Jim was buried on the bank of the Columbia River behind the Columbia House (now demolished), a fitting location for it had been headquarters for the mail-dog team. Jim's second master and friend is a retired Company locomotive engineer whose career in mountain railroading just about matches the exploits of his canine pal where adventure and near-disaster were concerned. Mr. Beavo remembers, among other things, a runaway freight train on the Big Hill at Field; a dining car from a passenger train being swept down an embankment by a snowslide at Glacier, B.C. and a moving mud slide at Calamity Curve (east of Beavermouth) which forced an engine and three cars down "very close to the edge of the Columbia River." Mr. Beavo is proud of the fact that he was the first engineer to go through Connaught tunnel after its completion. But, even that was not without misadventure. "Superintendent of construction gave me the O.K. to go ahead, but some overhead scaffolding had not been cleared .... it knocked off the smokestack of engine 506 and damaged the caboose cupola. I worked the engine for about a week with a barrel tied on for a smokestack." "STAMP NEWS" April 1971
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Sept 6, 2013 3:30:26 GMT
Clumber Spaniel. A breed I share some distinct familiarities with... "snoring and the production of excessive drool." The Clumber Spaniel is a breed of dog of the spaniel type, developed in the United Kingdom. It is the largest of the spaniels, and comes in predominantly one colour. The name of the breed is taken from Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire. It is a gundog that specialises in hunting in heavy cover. They are gentle and loyal, and can act aloof with strangers. They have several habits which could be considered disadvantages, including a constant shedding of its coat, snoring and the production of excessive drool. The history of the breed is uncertain prior to the mid-19th century with two theories being prevalent. Clumber Spaniels have been kept and bred by various British Monarchs, including Prince Albert, King Edward VII and King George V. They were introduced into Canada in 1844, and in 1884 became one of the first ten breeds recognised by the American Kennel Club. The breed can suffer from a variety of breed-specific ailments varying in severity from temporary lameness due to bone growth whilst young to hip dysplasia or spinal disc herniation. Saharawi Arab Demovcratic Republic.
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tomiseksj
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Post by tomiseksj on Dec 10, 2013 17:01:27 GMT
On August 22, 1964, Bulgaria issued a set of eight stamps depicting various breeds (1s German Shepherd, 2s Setter, 3s Poodle, 4s Pomeranian, 5s St. Bernard, 6s Terrier, 10s Pointer, and 13s Dachshund; Scott 1348-1355, respectively). Shown here are the first five stamps of the set and the H.E. Harris glassine that brought them to my father's collection.
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Mick
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Post by Mick on Oct 13, 2014 22:11:18 GMT
An adorable doggie from the UK - a 1990 stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of the RSPCA.
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Sept 19, 2015 22:43:35 GMT
Jersey, like Guernsey and the Isle of Man, is generally very good about all their stamp issues having something to do with the island. I was a bit confused by this dog because I certainly don't think of Jersey if I see a Labrador Retriever, so I wondered why he got his portrait featured on a stamp. The Scott catalogue clears up the mystery - a series of 5 stamps was issued in 1988 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Jersey Dog Club. Ryan
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Post by sgard on Sept 18, 2017 18:17:59 GMT
Renovation of old thread
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Sept 19, 2017 0:42:16 GMT
from Russia:
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guyana1230
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Post by guyana1230 on Feb 27, 2020 7:52:11 GMT
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guyana1230
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Post by guyana1230 on Feb 27, 2020 7:53:31 GMT
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guyana1230
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Post by guyana1230 on Feb 27, 2020 7:54:13 GMT
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rainbowhugz
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Post by rainbowhugz on May 21, 2022 9:57:26 GMT
Mongolia 1978
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philatelia
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Post by philatelia on May 21, 2022 10:12:51 GMT
Thanks for this dog post, rainbowhugz. I used to have a dog thematic collection, but decided to narrow the scope to only Schnauzers on stamps. I scrolled through the posts previous to yours and, lo and behold !!! discovered a schnauzer stamp I’ve never seen before! It is in the Guyana sheet. And - it is a natural ears pic! (I’m anti-cropping.)
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Post by rainbowhugz on May 21, 2022 15:24:05 GMT
philatelia no problem! Glad my resurrection of old threads is helping you discover stamps! I am enjoying scrolling through the threads and adding things I’ve currently got in my collection (which may not stay in for long)
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drblade
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Post by drblade on May 20, 2023 17:54:20 GMT
Just a quick post for all you dog lovers out there (or Machin fans). I've just spent most of this afternoon sorting out my used Machins for another giveaway. The 2 scanned stamps will be included. More later.
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ameis33
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Post by ameis33 on May 20, 2023 17:59:50 GMT
DOS collecting Now I understand… I always thought MS DOS was an operating system. Now I understand Bill is a stamp collector
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renden
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Post by renden on May 20, 2023 18:10:45 GMT
Just a quick post for all you dog lovers out there (or Machin fans). I've just spent most of this afternoon sorting out my used Machins for another giveaway. The 2 scanned stamps will be included. More later. I am not into MACHINS but am happy you posted these two - I bread Rottweilers (german papers) for 10 years with Denise (wife) and we had 3 Rotts of our own at one time 2 males nd 2 females (for breading and training) - Thanks !!
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2023 17:13:25 GMT
The postmark slogan is "Please control your dog when the postman calls." I assume it's related to the Royal Mail's ongoing "Dog Awareness" campaign:
The danger to postmen isn't the dogs' fault, and mostly isn't even the owners' fault. The problem is that, in the UK, the postman can't deliver a letter without invading the dog's territory and sticking his hand into the dog's house. Mailboxes at the edge of the front yard are much more sensible.
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Post by paul1 on May 21, 2023 18:13:02 GMT
if the fault is mostly not the owners, and apparently it's not the dog's fault, then since the blame must be laid at someone's door (no pun intended), does this suggest that it's the postman's fault? - after all there's no one else to blame. I'd suggest that withholding mail from problem addresses would soon resolve this one.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2023 20:10:40 GMT
No, it's nobody's fault. My point was that in the UK the postman has to enter the dog's territory in order to deliver letters to the letterbox in the front door. In the USA the mailman doesn't have as big a problem, because the mailbox is on the edge of the territory.
Of course, cats are an even greater danger to postmen. They demoralise them by staring at them contemptuously.
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