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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 3, 2013 8:03:18 GMT
On 09.08.1946 , with this American FDC, and that the theme 'Prehistoric life in Philately' was born on this date. On this date, a stamp was issued to celebrate the centenary of the Smithsonian Institution. The stamp shows the Smithsonian's buildings in Washington (Actually this stamp itself can be consider as a stamp of paleontologic thematic as the Institute has very large Paleobiology Department ). As illustration on the left side of the FDC shows a sauropod, most likely a Diplodocus.There are some variation of this FDC envelope, quite many various illustration are used at left side . Feb. 7 1996 another stamp with correspondent FDC has been issued at USA to sign 150 years of the institute. This time Tyrannosaur is depicted on the left side P.S. more about milestones of paleontology related post-items is here: www.paleophilatelie.eu/stamps_milestones.htmlLet's share interesting covers and post marks depicted some prehistoric animals, plants, fossils in this thread.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Sept 3, 2013 14:51:40 GMT
Some more covers from Kazakhstan The first one has full set of stamps include the Block. Sent to Germany as register letter and has a custom label (the green one), as well as the label of postman who didn't found me at home (the converted yellow one, put on top of register letter label of Kazakhstan ) and registered letter lable of Germany added on the board.. This time I was lucky because no one of these labels are put over the stamps. This cover was hold on custom as you can see on "Selbstverzollung" label and missing label of register letter of Germany. This time I was less lucky - some more lables are put over the stamps. When I tried to remove it, some stamps are damaged. This cover just sent inside of Kazakhstan - I like full and clear postmark on it. Some times ago I was hunting FDC of the set - quit difficult to find. At the end I found two collectors who sent me one FDC each and several covers with stamps on it.
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Sept 3, 2013 16:44:30 GMT
Nice stuff.Many thanks for sharing them.I think I was born around same time as some of these creatures.
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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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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 Ryan on Sept 6, 2013 11:26:00 GMT
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 That "cm" is an abbreviation for stotinki - there are 100 stotinkis in one lev. One of the funny things about the Cyrillic script is that an italic "T" looks just like our lower case "m". Every time I think I have the Cyrillic alphabet figured out, I find I've forgotten stuff about italics and then it's back to Wikipedia to try to figure things out again ... Ryan
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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 Ryan on Sept 6, 2013 15:42:45 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 ? I couldn't find anything on the Bulgarian Posts website. All of their Philately pages are blank on the English portion of their website. There was more information on the Bulgarian side, but as far as stamp releases are concerned all I could find was a 2012 stamp issues catalogue. www.bgpost.bg/?cid=108www.bgpost.bg/files/custom/BFN/BFN_2012.pdfPerhaps some day they will have more stamp issues on their site, but I would only expect newer issues, not older ones. I did find, however, that Bulgarian Posts has a personalized stamp service. Well, sort of - they have a personalized label that is attached to a stamp. Bulgaria was not included on the Wikipedia page for personalized stamps, so I didn't know about it. I'll edit the Wikipedia page so that others can find it too. Ryan
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Post by tomiseksj on Sept 6, 2013 18:24:39 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 ? I'm not sure what type of "official" information that you're after but the Scott catalog provides some basic information on the stamps shown on the four covers above. The stamps on the first two covers were issued on June 19, 1990; the individual stamps are Scott 3540-3545 and the miniature sheet is Scott 3545a. The stamps on the third cover were issued on April 27, 1994 (Scott 3817-3822). The stamps on the fourth cover were issued on April 24, 2003 as a horizontal stip of 4 (Scott 4257a-d). In addition to the three sets above, a prehistoric animals set of six stamps was issued on May 29, 1971 (Scott 1944-1949). No other dinosaur stamps appear to have been issued by Bulgaria through October 2007, the latest listing in my 2009 catalog.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 6, 2013 19:24:09 GMT
Michael, you might already have this info, but this site has a very large catalogue of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals on stamps. The PDF file is about 300 pages long. www.dinosaurs-on-stamps.info/Ryan
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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 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 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 Ryan on Sept 18, 2013 7:31:59 GMT
Michael, your last images can't be seen unless you're a member of Philaforum (and only when you're signed in - I should register there, it would be good practice for my German). Please post the images with a different address!
Ryan
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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 11:50:41 GMT
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Post by Ryan on Sept 19, 2013 6:23:28 GMT
Your image above showing the trilobite from Ontario reminds me of this Canadian stamp, although this trilobite is apparently from Newfoundland. Ryan
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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 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 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 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 11, 2013 15:41:57 GMT
Do you think it make sense to have the second cover in a cover collection ?
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Post by Zuzu on Oct 11, 2013 19:31:26 GMT
Do you think it make sense to have the second cover in a cover collection ? Depends on the reason for your cover collection, I suppose. If you're only interested in postally-used stamps on cover, then perhaps not.
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Post by rod222 on Oct 11, 2013 19:56:14 GMT
"Do you think it make sense to have the second cover in a cover collection ?"
If you were exhibiting, I would think not, unless each cover had a individual point of interest. If for your personal collection, then toss sense out the window, go with your heart.
For me, one has an example of a handstruck canceller, the other a meter machine printed stamp, that would be sufficient for me to keep both.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Oct 14, 2013 10:33:13 GMT
When I looked on both covers it seems a bit suspicious to me.
The first cover have some stamps with total value of VND 9700 (USD 0.46 about) Similar stamps on the second cover are not cancelled, but franking meter stamps of VND 43300 (USD 2 about). Due the fact both are sent from Vietnam this year, to Europe I assume it have to cost about the same amount of money.
Fortunately, I found some fellow collector from Vietnam who explained me what's going on.
In Vietnam sender can put some stamps on a cover, bring it to a post office, where a post clerk check correctness of the Porto, he write total price of the letter on the cover. Sender pay a missing part of the Porto, but the post clerk don't care to add any extra post stamp on the cover. Get a money, put tracking number label and send the letter. Due this reason quite some covers from Vietnam looks like underpaid.
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Post by Zuzu on Oct 14, 2013 13:48:22 GMT
Good info to know. Thanks!
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Post by paleophilatelist on Oct 14, 2013 16:41:34 GMT
here two more covers from Vietnam
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Post by paleophilatelist on Oct 17, 2013 11:32:39 GMT
Just on the next day after official issue, I received addressed FDC from Royal Mail. It's arrived inside of another cover - perhaps for better protection. Now puzzled if the FDC acn be count as real circukated one ? The sort-machine sign (orange dotted line) is stay on the wrapper cover rather than FDC itself. The FDC is also include an inside page with some brief description about dinosaurs depicted on the stamps
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Post by paleophilatelist on Oct 21, 2013 14:08:17 GMT
Friend of mine, sent me a letter on the first day of issue of latest British dinosaur stamps. Shame about the bottom right sticker. Moreover it is a failure of postman. "Delivery Confirmation" (eng. ) = "Einschreibem Einwurf" (germ.) means - the post man should confirm he put the letter into mailbox of recepient. Recepient confirmation/signature is not required. Probably he didn't realized when came to our home at our absence, put the sticker and bring the letter back to a post office.
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Post by paleophilatelist on Oct 22, 2013 9:28:00 GMT
A friend of mine, being on a business trip in UK, sent me 10 post cards shows most recent "dinosaurs" of Great Briatin. These cards, called PHQ, produced by Roayl Mail as part of standard product, have the same, but bigger, design as stamps. Each card I received has the similar stamp on the backside plus some other stamps to complete correct postage of p88. Two often cards with some flying reptilies are below. [Broken image links removed]
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