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Post by paleophilatelist on Oct 10, 2013 14:22:20 GMT
On a recent search through my Croatian stamps I found this nice pair showing the Iguanodon. (Note - this Wikipedia article is very detailed and has received a bronze star as one of Wikipedia's feature articles.) Ryan It is indeed а very good stamp. Here you can see some more scans related to it: www.paleophilatelie.eu/description/stamps/croatia_1994.html
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Post by paleophilatelist on Oct 8, 2013 7:03:38 GMT
just am image editing problem
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Post by paleophilatelist on Oct 7, 2013 20:24:17 GMT
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Post by paleophilatelist on Oct 5, 2013 11:02:36 GMT
"Agartha (sometimes Agartta, Agharti, Agarta or Agarttha) is a legendary city that is said to reside in the earth's core. It is related to the belief in a hollow earth and is a popular subject in esotericism." from Wikipedia.
Even if you have some covers with these "stamps", it's play a decoration purpose only. Last stamp, with face value of 1, is an exact copy of MS issued in Australia in 1993. Design of other stamps seems also not unique to me, I guess it is are reprioduction of images of Zdenek Burian.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Oct 2, 2013 14:32:37 GMT
What is "On the Royal Mail order form" ? Do you refer to web site or any kind of printed form ?
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Post by paleophilatelist on Oct 2, 2013 10:19:44 GMT
Customized FDC with stamps of Australiasome gutter stamps are put on special cover, then sent by regular post to me in Germany. In order to complete the post rate two more stamps are used. One of the extra stamps is Trimmus from Dinosaur set of 1993, dinosaur that is now interpreted as a member of a quite different group than when illustrated on an Australian stamp in 1993. This is a perfect example of how science works - a revision of a viewpoint in the light of new information.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Oct 2, 2013 10:04:54 GMT
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 30, 2013 10:13:37 GMT
On end of September 2006, Mexican Postal Service in cooperation with The Museo del Desierto ( The Desert Museum), presented ,for the enjoyment of philatelists and the general public , a souvenir sheet with 3 stamps of prehistoric creatures which leaved on territory of the country in far geological past: Upper Cretaceous (100 - 60 Mio. years ago ) and Late Jurassic (160 - 145 Mio. years ago ) periods. her is a register letter with the Mini Sheet, sent from Mexico to Germany: It is quite common, that Deutsche Post add one more label with their own register letter number. Another label, the yellow one, is added by postman, who didn't found me at home when bring me the letter.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 26, 2013 15:54:44 GMT
Medium size cover, sent by to a fellow collector in Canada, via regular post with both most recent fossil stamps on it. Stamps on the right side are cancelled by regular (round) post mark. Two stamps on the left side are cancelled by commemorative stamps of Munich. This stamp is available all the time in philatelic desk of Deutsche Post in Munich, at one Post office only in the down-town. Stamps on the cover: Germany 2010 "Bicentenary of Museum fuer Naturkunde in Berlin" shows most famous exponat of paleontologic part of the museum -14 meter long sckeleton of Brachiosaurus brancai. The bones were recovered by researchers at Tendaguru Hill ( 250 tonnes about) and shipped to Berlin, where it were put together . Germany 2011 "150 years of discovery prehistoric bird Archaeopteryx"The prehistoric bird Archaeopteryx is one of the most famous fossil in the World. It was described in 1861 based on one feather cast. Later one when some completed speciments found it was very importnat evidence of Theory of Evolution. As intermediate specie from Dinosaurs to Birds Archaeopteryx has some bird and reptilie specific parts in his sckeleton. Ancestor of Archaeopteryx was a small predator dinosaur. All fossils of Archaeopteryx are founded so far are comming from Solnhofener Plattenkalken at Fraenkischen Jura region of Bavaria state, in Germany. They are about 150 M. years old. The best fossil exemplar ist stored in Museum fuer Naturkunde in Berlin.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 22, 2013 20:36:37 GMT
In 2009, Macedonia issued a set of two stamps: (These stamps are issued in mini-sheets of 9, first row of each MS are above) Charles Darwin can be seen on one of these stamps, Louis Braille, who born on the same year as Darwin (1809), and who was the inventor of a system used by the blind people for reading and writing, on the second.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 19, 2013 9:15:11 GMT
Very nice stamp ! In 1990 Post of Canada issued 1st of 4 stamp sets, shows "Prehistoric life of Canada". Here is a cover of all 4 stamps of the set sent to me last year
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 18, 2013 11:50:41 GMT
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 18, 2013 11:48:20 GMT
Thanks for let me know, Ryan. I didn't realized it.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 18, 2013 7:04:29 GMT
Some covers produced by Paleontologic Museum of Munich (the museum belongs to University of Munich) [Broken image links removed] Just wonder if any museums at your area produce any kind of special philatelic souvenirs ?
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 16, 2013 16:10:53 GMT
On September 4, 2008, the German Post AG in cooperation with "For the Youth" government fund has released in their stamp series "For the Youth 2008" is now 4 stamps with dinosaur motifs. The four illustrated dinosaur Plateosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Diplodocus sin all together in Frankfurt's Senckenberg Museum to see. Official FDC of Deutsche Post and two sets of official FDC of "For the Youth" organization
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 16, 2013 14:31:09 GMT
Fossil bones of extinct reptiles that inhabited southern Africa around 200 million years ago are found in the Karoo rocks of Transkei. This set of stamps shows reconstructions of four of these prehistoric vertebrates in their natural habitats, based on the available fossil evidence. The Karoo rocks comprise cemented sand and mud originally laid down by large meandering rivers that flooded their banks and in the process buried numerous skeletons of ancient reptiles that lived and died on the flood plains, including dinosaurs. At that time, southern Africa was part of an enormous continent called Gondwana, which later drifted apart to form the current continents of the southern hemisphere. Consequently, similar fossils can be found in India, Antarctica and South America. The Karoo rocks contain the best fossil record in the world of the gradual evolution from reptiles through the mammal-like reptiles to the first mammals, which took place in southern Africa some 200 million years ago.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 6, 2013 21:30:23 GMT
most recent Bird stamps of Germany:
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 6, 2013 21:25:04 GMT
sure, we even exchange a link with this site, but thanks for thinking about me. By "some official information" I mean - release note. I believe Bulgarian Post Authority had a reason to depict some dinosaurs on their stamps, probably they show some animals who leaved on territory of the country a while ago. To just fill-out an album with mint stamps is boring to me, I like to know as much I can about these stamps and the objects depicted there. So far I have an information about 170 stamps sets of my collection: www.paleophilatelie.eu/description/stamps/index.html but still looking for information about others. A while ago, I been told about Filatelista magazine of Poland, then found on internet. It's indeed had some worlds about their dinosaur stamps from 1965 and 1966. Example of the magazine www.paleophilatelie.eu/description/stamps/references/poland/filatelista_1965.pdfPerhaps Bulgaria had similar magazine, where new stamp issues announced.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 6, 2013 14:36:40 GMT
Hi Ryan,
do you know where to find some official information about Bulgarian stamps of Dinosaurs ? I guess it was some reason to issue this stamps, isn't it ?
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 6, 2013 9:57:27 GMT
On 5th of June 2012, Post Authority of Turkeey issued a stamp set " World environment day (Dinosaurs)" . The set is a mini-sheet of 4 stamps. Additional, souvenir book with one more plastic Lenticular (3D hologram) stamp and several post cards are printed out. The Lenticular stamp, depict running T-Rex is the first Lenticular stamp depicted dinosaur on it. Even though it sold with the booklet only is a valid post stamp, and can be used for postage.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 6, 2013 9:30:59 GMT
When I looked more closely on these covers, I observed few strange things: 1. stamps on these covers are in different currency units: a. fisrt two covers have "cm" units b. the third cover has "nowa" (means new) unit and all numbers have to "00" behind. Likely 4.00, 7.00 etc c. the last cover has units "lewa" and all numbers are after 0 2. total sum of stamps on each cover , except first two where the same stamps used are totally different, but the same additional stamp with face value of lw 1,0 is used on all covers.
By looking on post rate of regular letter from Bulgaria to Germany on Bulgarian Post Authority web site I found the price of lw 1,0 - means dinosaur stamps are used on these covers for decoration purpose only.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 4, 2013 16:23:05 GMT
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 4, 2013 11:55:40 GMT
FDC like covers with GB stamps from 2009, sent to me this year: Both sent inside of water protected bag, e.g. These stamps. as well as many others issued in 2009 in order to commemorate both the 200th Anniversary or bicentenary of the birth of the greatest naturalist in history, Charles Robert Darwin, and the 150th Anniversary of the publication of his most famous work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 4, 2013 11:39:08 GMT
BTW, some times ago, Russian philatelic magazine " Мир Марок" (Stamp's World), published my first article "Paleontology in Philately" Russian reading visitors of the forum can read the original, either on my or the magazine websites. Googlish is an alternative to other. The article is based on " Milestones of paleontology related post-items" page of my site and provide some overview of development of Paleontology related Philately.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 4, 2013 11:38:53 GMT
Thanks zipper !
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 4, 2013 11:37:31 GMT
BTW, some times ago, Russian philatelic magazine " Мир Марок" (Stamp's World), published my first article "Paleontology in Philately" Russian reading visitors of the forum can read the original, either on my or the magazine websites. Googlish is an alternative to other. The article is based on " Milestones of paleontology related post-items" page of my site and provide some overview of development of Paleontology related Philately.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 4, 2013 10:57:13 GMT
Thanks kg5
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 4, 2013 10:53:22 GMT
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 4, 2013 9:22:08 GMT
As far I know, Darwin has indeed a trip on an elephant by his stay on Mauritius island. The elephant was provided him by governor of the islands who got the elephants as present from some Indian Maharaja.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 4, 2013 8:21:50 GMT
Some covers with old Bulgarian stamps I was quite happy to receive it, but disappointed later one. Any idea what lead me to sale these covers ?
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