Pin

COVERS and POST CARDS

Pin

COVER

Pin Toxodon  
Description:
Toxodon, lines for name and address at right, Smilodon at lower left.
Lines for sender's name and address on flap, proboscideans on reverse.
 
 
 
 
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ARGENTINA
2001

COVER

Pin Diprotodon skeleton  
Description:
Diprotodon skeleton, shell, clock, medal, and Aboriginal painting at left.
'International Museum Day'
'18 May 1980'.
Lines for sender's name and address on flap.
 
 
 
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AUSTRALIA
1980

COVER

Pin
Bulgaria cover 2009   
120-th anniversary of the Natural History Museum.
 
Description:
Amethyst crystal on the stamp, lines for address, boxes for the post code.
At left (here shown at right) a.o. Deinotherium skeleton.

 
 
 
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BULGARIA
2009

COVER

Pin
Bulgaria cover 2018   
Extinct animals.
 
Description:
Aurochs skeleton on the stamp, lines for address, boxes for the post code.
At left another aurochs skeleton.

 
 
 
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BULGARIA
2023

COVER

Pin
Bulgaria cover 2023   
Extinct mammals.
 
Description:
Machairodus on the stamp, lines for address, boxes for the post code.
At left Chalicotherium , Machairodus, Tetralophodon, and Sivatherium at sunset.

 
 
 
TvE23

BULGARIA
2018

POST CARD

Pin Canada card  
Description:
'POSTAGE PAID / PORT PAYÉ' and lines for name and address at right, 'ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM / MUSÉE DE L'ONTARIO / 1914-2014' at bottom right.
On the stamp and on the reverse museum items, including fossil Parasaurolophus.
 
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CANADA
2014

COVER

Pin Peking man   
Description:
Peking man (Homo erectus) on the stamp.
Boxes for post code of sender and recipient at top left and bottom right. Peking man family scene at left.
Explanatory text in English and
Chinese on reverse.
 
 
 
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CHINA
1989

COVER

Pin Shantungosaurus skeleton   
Description:
Boxes for post code at top left, explanatory text in Chinese on reverse.
 
This cover exists with a number of different images, mostly buildings, at left, I have over thirty in my collection. These were printed for companies and institutions, apparently by the Chinese mail.
 
 
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CHINA
2002

COVER

Pin
Geopark   
Description:
'UNESCO - GEOPARKS' and ornithopod skeleton on the stamp,
'GEOPARK', logo, and four landscapes at bottom left.
Explanatory text in English and
Chinese on reverse.
 
 
 
TvE07

CHINA
2004

POST CARDS

Pin
DinosaurLand stamp   
Description:
China Dinosaurland theme park at Changzhou, five different.
 
On the stamp: Pteranodon, Brachiosaurus, Triceratops, and Tyrannosaurus.
Four cards with attractions in the park on the reverse, each including (parts of) the J. Sibbick painting of Ceratosaurus and Brachiosaurus, one smaller card with a blank reverse.
Note: These cards are/were only available at the Dinosaurland park, and are therefore only semi-official.
 
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CHINA
2007

COVER

Pin
China cover 2007   
Description:
Large cover, 16 by 23 cms.
Stamp image: theropod statues on a lawn in front of a modern building.
Image repeated at lower left.
China Dinosaurland theme park at Changzhou.
 
 
TvE07

CHINA
2007

COVER

Pin
China cover 2008   
Description:
Sinosauropteryx fossil and pagoda on stamp.
 
Exists with (at least) six different images on the left, a.o. reconstructions of Sinosauropteryx and Confuciusornis, a gate, a building, and archaeological finds.
Explanatory text in Chinese on the back.
 
TvE09

CHINA
2008

POST CARD

Pin
China card 2018   
Description:
Homo erectus bust.
 
Centenary of the discovery of Peking man.
At left a row of six boxes for post code and airial view of museum buildings. At bottom the legend
'The Centenary of the Discovery of Zhoukoudian Site'.
 
TvE19

CHINA
2018

POST CARD

Pin
Colombia ammonite   
Description:
Ammonite,
lines for name and address at right, building and lines for message at left.
Image of the stamp repeated on reverse.
 
 
 
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COLOMBIA
2018

POST CARD

Pin
Ammonite Parapuzosia   
Description:
Ammonite Parapuzosia, lines for name and address at lower right, barcode at lower left.
Old illustration of museum interior on reverse.
 
 
 
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DENMARK
1998

POST CARD

Pin Estonia post card   
Description:
Tortoise skeleton, Nautilus, leaves, and crab,
on reverse, in light gray, a.o. brachiopod, trilobite (Calymene), and Euomphalus fossil.
 
 
 
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ESTONIA
2003

COVER

Pin
France cover   
Description:
 
On the stamp: Allosaurus
Room for address, five boxes for post code. Centenary of the discovery of the Niaux cave and cave paintings. Set of five, each with a different image at left.
On the reverse cave paintings (Bison).
 
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FRANCE
2006

POST CARD

Pin Crocodile fossil   
Description:
Diplocynodon fossil, dotted lines for sender's name and address at top left,
'Postkarte' and dotted lines for name and address at right.
'Prähistorische Tierwelt in Deutschland' and prehistoric fishes at bottom left.
Reverse blank.
 
 
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GERMANY FEDERAL REPUBLIC
1998

POST CARD

Pin Postcard Germany 2008   
Description: Triceratops,
dotted lines for sender's name and address at top left, at bottom left '20 Gewinner / Dino-MalWettBewerb', children's drawings of dinosaurs.
Reverse blank.
 
 
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GERMANY
2008

POST CARD

Pin
Germany postcard 2010   
Description:
 
On the stamp: Brachiosaurus skeleton, recent animals, '200 Jahre Museum für Naturkunde Berlin'.
Lines for address, at top left lines for sender's name and address, at bottom left a tortoise and a snake, 'JUGEND REPTILIEN / TAGE' and 'Internationale Briefmarken-Börse / Sindelfingen 29 bis 31. Oktober 2010'.
Reverse blank.
 
TvE11
 

GERMANY
2010

POST CARDS (set of 6)

Pin
hong kong card   
Set of six 'dinosaurs' cards.
Description:
Dinosaur stamp at top right, lines for name and address at lower right.
Stamp image repeated on reverse.
Tyrannosaurus, Spinosaurus,
Triceratops, Diplodocus,
Brachiosaurus, Allosaurus and Hesperosaurus.
 
 
 
TvE23

HONG KONG
2022

AEROGRAMME

Pin Korea (North) aerogramme
Description:
Fossil fish.
White cover with blue and red margin.
'AEROGRAMME' / 'VIA AIR MAIL'
and Korean text in box at bottom left.
Reverse blank.
 
 
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KOREA (NORTH)
2002

COVER

Pin Korea (North) 2004 cover
Description:
Comptonia naumannii plant leaf fossil.
Edaphosaurus reconstruction by Z. Burian at bottom right, fossil lower jaw at bottom left.
Reverse blank.
 
 
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KOREA (NORTH)
2004

AEROGRAMME

Pin Korea (North) 2004 aerogramme
Description:
Clinocardium asagaiense fossil.
Orthoceratid nautiloids on the cover, brachiopod fossils at bottom left, trilobite Tsinania at bottom right.
'AEROGRAMME' / 'VIA AIR MAIL'
and Korean text in box at top left.
Reverse blank.
 
 
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KOREA (NORTH)
2004

COVER

Pin    
Description:
Neuropteridium fossil, at lower left another fern fossil and a short text in Korean.
Reverse blank.
 
 
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KOREA (NORTH)
2007

AEROGRAMME

Pin North Korea 2007   
Description:
Yoldia shell fossil, white rectangle for address, Clinocardium asagaiense shell fossil at bottom right, recent fish in the background.
Reverse blank.
 
 
TvE09
KOREA (NORTH)
2007

COVER

Pin North Korea 2010   
Description:
Lozenge-shaped stamp with Tyrannosaurus misidentified as Allosaurus. Drawing of Allosaurus at bottom left.
Reverse blank.
 
 
TvE10
KOREA (NORTH)
2010

POST CARD

Pin Korea 2011   
Description:
Megalosaurus stamp with printed perforations. 'Dinosaurs' at bottom left. Reverse: Pteranodon, two sauropods (Apatosaurus?), Chasmosaurus.
 
 
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KOREA (NORTH)
2011

AEROGRAMME

Pin Korea 2011   
Description:
Chasmosaurus stamp with printed perforation. 'AEROGRAMME / VIA AIR MAIL' at top left. Drawing of a theropod (Tyrannosaurus?) at bottom left.
 
 
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KOREA (NORTH)
2011

POST CARD

Pin Korea 2013   
Description:
Ditomopharangia fossil on stamp with printed perforation. Four korean characters at top, vertical centre line. Fossil crab on the reverse.
 
 
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KOREA (NORTH)
2013

COVER

Pin Korea 2013   
Description:
Dumangia fossil on stamp with printed perforation. Fossil brachiopod at lower left, otherwise blank.
 
 
TvE14
KOREA (NORTH)
2013

AEROGRAMME

Pin Korea 2013   
Description:
Hormotomaria fossil on stamp with printed perforation.
'AEROGRAMME / VIA AIR MAIL' at top left. Fossil bivalve shells at lower right. Rectangle with one line of Korean text for address.
 
 
TvE13
KOREA (NORTH)
2013

POST CARDS

Pin Mene rhombea   
Description: Mene fossil on the stamp.
Lines for name and address at right, vertical line of Arabic text at center, blank at left.
Stamp image repeated on reverse.
Set of two, the other card shows Stegosaurus.
 
 
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LIBYA
1996

COVER

Pin Nautilus shell and ammonite  
Description:
Long narrow cover, blank except for stamp.
The ammonite is probably Acanthoceras.
 
 
 
 
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PALAU
1988

POST CARD

Pin Ammonite Perisphinctes   
Description: Ammonite Perisphinctes on the stamp.
Lines for name and address at right.
'Instytut geologiczny 1919-1970' in red at top.
'WARSZAWA' and building exterior at left, 'kartka pocztowa' at bottom left.
Reverse blank.
 
 
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POLAND
1970

POST CARD

Pin Ammonites   
Description:
Ammonites Taramelliceras (left) and Dichotomoceras (right) on the stamp,
three lines and five rectangles for address and post code, mountain landscape and bird of prey on a rock.
Reverse blank.
 
 
TvE08

POLAND
2007

COVER

Pin Pteranodon head   
Description:
Lines for name, adress, etc, at right.
Animal and name at left.
Lines for sender's name, address, etc, on flap.
Set of four: on the stamps: Iguanodon, Pterodactylus, Deinonychus, and Pteranodon.
 
 
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ROMANIA
1994

POST CARD

Pin
Australopithecus   
Description:
'Carte postala', 'Destinatar', and dotted lines for name, adress, etc, at right.
Australopithecus olteniensis family scene and text at left, dotted lines for sender's name and address. Reverse blank.
 
 
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ROMANIA
1998

COVER

Pin
Romania cover 2007   
Description:
Portrait of biospeleologist E. Racovita on the stamp, skeleton and reconstruction of Ursus spelaeus (cave bear) at left.
Four lines for name and address; boxes for post code and town.
From a set of four.
 
 
TvE07

ROMANIA
2007

COVER

Pin
Russia 1997 cover 
Description:
Portrait of geologist A. Karpinsky on the stamp, map, crystals, ammonite and gastropod at left,
Instructions for filling in post code on flap.
 
 
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RUSSIA
1997

POST CARD

Pin A.o. Livistonia fossil  
Description:
Lines for name and address at right.
Pictorial elements of the stamp arranged in a circle with Livistonia at right, surrounded by text.
Boxes for post code at lower left. Reverse blank.
 
 
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SOVIET UNION
1975

COVER

Pin
A.o. Livistonia fossil   
Description:
Lines for name and address at right.
Pictorial elements of the stamp with text, arranged in flower shape at left. Livistonia at left.
Boxes for post code at lower left.
Instructions for filling in post code on flap.
 
 
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SOVIET UNION
1975

POST CARD

Pin Spain T-rex  
Description:
'Destinatario', 5 lines for address and number at right.
At bottom left '80 - 15 DINOSAURIOS. Tiranosaurio'.
3-D stamp with printed perforation.
On the reverse a 3-D image of a Tyrannosaurus in horrible colours.
 
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SPAIN
2015

POST CARD

Pin Spain Aragosaurus  
Description:
'Destinatario', 5 lines for address and number at right.
At bottom left 'JUVENIA 2023, TERUEL / Dinosaurios. Aragosaurus ischiaticus'.
2 €. stamp with Aragosaurus and label with fossil bones.
On the reverse a fibreglass Aragosaurus.
 
TvE23

SPAIN
2023

POST CARD

Pin Alley Oop  
Description:
Lines for name and address at right.
Biographical data of V.T. Hamlin at top left.
Stamp image repeated on reverse.
Part of a set, cartoons.
 
 
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1995