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Post by paleophilatelist on Nov 4, 2013 20:25:23 GMT
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Post by paleophilatelist on Dec 5, 2013 16:47:02 GMT
Two beautifull covers from Slovenia (scans are from internet, still miss it in my collection): The first one uses personalized stamp on it, the second one is from 1998, with a regular stamp. Both covers are produced by local philatelic club in order to commemorate an anniversaries of some mammoth bones found in Kamnik town in Slovenia. Do you have any similar stamps/cover at your collections ? I like to see some personalized stamps of Natural History Museums around the world. Few worlds about the Mammoth: In March and April 1938, an almost complete skeleton of a 40-year-old woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), an antler of a reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), an atlas of a polar fox (Alopex lagopus), and a small Paleolithic tool made of almost black flint were found in Nevlje by workers who built a bridge across the Nevljica and deepened its bed.[8] It was the first discovered Paleolithic hunting settlement in the territory of the present Slovenia and was dated to around 20,000 BP, the time of the Gravettian culture in the latter half of the Würm period (the last glaciation period). The excavations attracted domestic and international public attention, researchers, and politicians. A bridge built at this spot was named the Mammoth Bridge (Slovene: Mamutov most). A pollen analysis was performed at the site for the first time by Ana Tregubov-Budnar, the first Slovenian palinologist. In 1944, she attributed the pollen to the end of an interglacial period. Later, it was shown by Alojz Šercelj that it actually belongs to the Würm glaciation. The mammoth skeleton is one of the best preserved in Europe and has become the symbol of the Natural History Museum of Slovenia, where it is now on display. a bit more details but on Slovenian: www.kamnican.si/pred-75-leti-v-nevljah-pri-kamniku-odkrili-okostje-mamuta/
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Post by paleophilatelist on Dec 27, 2013 21:50:09 GMT
A friend of mine sent me some scans of his FDC collection. Here are 13 covers from Japan, issued in 1977 in order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Science Museum. Just wonder which one is official one ?"A POSTAGE STAMP TO CQMMEMORATE 100 YEARS OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE MUSEUM A ¥50 postage stamp to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Science Museum has been issued. The first museum in Japan was established at Yushima in Ochanomizu, Tokyo, in 1872. It then was called the Museum of the Ministry of Education and was designed to exhibit zoological and botanical specimen as well as various kinds of minerals and fossils. The name of the museum was later changed to the Tokyo Museum and in 1877 it made a fresh start as the Educational Museum. This is the origin of the present science museum. In June, 1949, under the law for the establishment of the Education Ministry, the museum was placed under the jurisdiction of the Education Minister. Its name was changed to the present National Science Museum. This year marks the 100th year since the museum made a start as the Educational Museum. The only museum of this kind in Japan. the National Science Museum makes research and studies of the history of nature and natural science. exhibits data related to the studies for public view and contributes to the diffusion of knowledge concerning the history of nature and natural science among the people." from official press release.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Feb 4, 2014 20:11:45 GMT
Here are two nice set of AU 2013 dinosaur stamps. Distinguished from 1993 in 2013 FDC with self adhesive stamps was produced. The only way to get it was to place a special order. Another FDCs are uses some gutter pairs.
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Philatarium
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Post by Philatarium on Feb 4, 2014 21:23:28 GMT
A friend of mine sent me some scans of his FDC collection. Here are 13 covers from Japan, issued in 1977 in order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Science Museum. Just wonder which one is official one ?Hi -- just looking at this thread for the first time. Very nice work! I could be wrong, but I don't believe Japan issued "official" first day covers, or at least not in the last few decades. I think back in the 1970s there were several philatelic organizations who issued them, but not the PO itself. Unfortunately, I just can't see the image you posted in a large enough size to try to read the cachet makers or anything about the date stamps. Great job you've been doing!! -- Dave
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Post by paleophilatelist on Feb 4, 2014 21:58:54 GMT
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Post by Philatarium on Feb 4, 2014 23:38:28 GMT
Thank you! Your collection is an interesting study of the various first day covers and cancellations for this stamp! Judging from the fronts, I don't think any of these is an official FDC. If there is any writing on the backs of the envelopes, please feel free to scan those, too, and I can check. I will just mention that the one airmail cover, mailed to Cuba, bears the cachet of the Japan Philatelic Society. You can see "JPS" at the bottom right of the building on that cover. You might also note that there are 2 different commemorative cancels that, at first glance, might look the same. It's the cancel that illustrates the museum building. At the bottom of those cancels, one of them says "Tokyo", while the other says "Shitaya", which is kind of like a neighborhood in Tokyo, and I presume that it's associated with the location of the museum. An instance of the "Shitaya" cancel is on the cover in row 1, column 1, and an instance of the "Tokyo" cancel is in row 3, column 1. You've probably already researched this, but, if you're interested, here's a link to the museum's webpage in English: www.kahaku.go.jp/english/index.phpTo me, it seems the English version is more comprehensive than for a lot of other Japanese websites, so it's quite informative. Digging down in that website a bit, I found a page where you can download a pdf of the museum guide: www.kahaku.go.jp/english/userguide/access/pamphlet/index.htmlAlso, according to this Wikipedia article, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Nature_and_Sciencethe museum was renovated in the 1990s-2000s and renamed the National Museum of Nature and Science in 2007. Very nice! Thanks for sharing this! (And let me know if there is any additional information on the back of any of those covers.) -- Dave
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Post by paleophilatelist on Feb 5, 2014 20:35:04 GMT
Hi Dave,
many thanks for detailed answer. Unfortunately I can not show you the backside because "A friend of mine sent me some scans of his FDC collection."
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Post by Philatarium on Feb 6, 2014 2:47:59 GMT
Well, that's a good reason! Nonetheless, unless it would be contradicted by something on the reverse, I don't believe there is an official FDC (at least among these items).
That's a stamp I would have just added to my collection and then never thought about again, so I appreciated the opportunity to dig into this a bit! What a great learning experience!
Thank you!
-- Dave
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Post by paleophilatelist on Feb 11, 2014 22:23:24 GMT
Another scans of FDC sent to me by a fellow collector I been told, these stamps issued by some private post organization without any special, just because it was very popular subject after issues of Jurassic Park film in 1993. Looking for some more information about these stamps from Netherlands 1994.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Feb 26, 2014 10:25:09 GMT
3D post card from Hong Kong sent at the first day of stamps issue.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Mar 2, 2014 13:32:29 GMT
Awesome come from Australia came to my post box just recently
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Post by paleophilatelist on Jun 12, 2014 20:50:10 GMT
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Post by Ryan on Jun 19, 2014 21:08:07 GMT
What kind of creature is that, shown on the trilobyte cover? He looks like a paint brush!
Ryan
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Post by I.L.S. on Jun 20, 2014 11:54:38 GMT
What kind of creature is that, shown on the trilobyte cover? He looks like a paint brush! Ryan I am also curious?
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Post by paleophilatelist on Jun 20, 2014 14:54:53 GMT
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Post by Ryan on Jun 20, 2014 23:21:53 GMT
Outstanding - not only can you buy stuffed microbes or virii or whatever (whatever it was that Zuzu found), there's also a knitted belemnite available. Ryan
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Post by paleophilatelist on Jul 1, 2014 17:28:54 GMT
Two beautiful register covers from Burundi, arrived me today.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Jul 26, 2014 21:38:09 GMT
some more stuff from Nepal, Museum's FDC and MC: pity, only one cover has clear post mark:
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Post by paleophilatelist on Nov 17, 2014 22:15:56 GMT
"For the first time, from 24 to 26 October, the mounted original skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex was on display in Europe. The fully-grown and exceptionally well-preserved exemplar of this predatory dinosaur, for which scientific research has not been fully completed yet, was the highlight of this year’s Munich Show – Mineralientage München. Three days long, scientists and visitors can admire the King of the dinosaurs at the Munich Trade Fair Center......" In order to commemorate this even Deutsche Post issued special commemorative post mark. Here some of my covers:
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Post by paleophilatelist on Mar 18, 2015 10:09:27 GMT
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Post by paleophilatelist on Apr 10, 2015 12:05:15 GMT
Next Monday, April 13, Canada is going to issue 5 self adhesive stamps of Dinosaurs. Anybody can send me the FDC on Monday ?
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Post by paleophilatelist on May 15, 2015 21:30:13 GMT
Some covers from Portugal. 1. Regular letter to Germany: 2. Register letter: 3. Priority letter:
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Post by paleophilatelist on May 29, 2015 7:41:35 GMT
Nice cover with commemorative postmark of Lee Kong Chain Natural History Museum and this one is cancelled with commemorative postmark of Singapore Post, designed for FDC there are some more stamps on the back.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Jan 3, 2018 20:18:25 GMT
Dear friends 2018 just beginn, perfect time to check stamps issue programs of postal authority around the world to see who and when is going to issue Paleontology or Paleoanthropology related stamps. So far I know about only few of it: www.paleophilatelie.eu/year/current.html#ann Unfortunately not every post authority publish their programs online and quite some who publish it not update it yet. In case you know/have any stamp issue plan not mentioned or outdated here: www.paleophilatelie.eu/postal_resources.html please share it with me.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Jun 13, 2021 11:41:38 GMT
Today when you go to any major Paleontologic Museum in the world, you can see a fossil of the Dolphin-like Ichthyosaur. Although Ichthyosaurs and Dolphins have a similar shape and have many common features, they are completely different animals. Ichthyosaurs are euryapsids, a group of reptiles derived from a diapsid reptile ancestor. Unlike ichthyosaurs, dolphins are derived from a mammalian ancestor and evolved after the ichthyosaurs had died out. Here is my new article about these amazing prehistoric reptiles: The History of Ichthyosaurs Discovery www.paleophilatelie.eu/topics/paleo/vertebrate/ichthyosaur.htmlThis article also tell the story about Ichthyosaurs discoveries. Even thought the first recognized skeleton of Ichthyosaurs discovered in 1811 by Mary Anning and her brother, the oldest skeleton was discovered in Germany in 1749, but was assigned to a fish. This and many other interesting facts can be found in the article.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Jul 15, 2022 9:53:35 GMT
"The Unique Discoveries Of The Mongolian Dinosaurs" On May 30th 2022, the Post Authority of Mongolia issued set of 4 stamps and a Souvenir Sheet "The Unique Discoveries Of The Mongolian Dinosaurs". These stamps and FDC were sold out in the on-line store of Mongolian Post during the day of issue. Every stamp shows one unique fossil found in Mongolia and reconstruction of the animal. The Souvenir-Sheet shows an entire scene of prehistoric life on the territory of Mongolia, with many dinosaurs on the margin More details are here: www.paleophilatelie.eu/description/stamps/mongolia_2022.html
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