| ** UPDATE: June 10, 2010 ** |
Fellow collector Dmitri Kutyakov from Odessa kindly notified me that I had included a
Congo-Brazzaville set
in Congo-Kinshasa.
Sao Tome e Principe, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau keep on printing stamps,
and Guinea has imitated Benin and has started to overprint older stamps.
The South African mail has a first. Most readers will be familiar with the kind of images you have to
look at through a pair of glasses coloured blue and purple, so that you get a three-dimensional image.
This gimmick they have applied to dinosaur stamps. Regrettably, the effect is rather poor. Instead of
having 3D images of the dinosaur, only the plane of the image is tilted. Should you have a
pair of 3D glasses, have a look at the scan, the trick works just as well on a scanned image.
On eBay, I found a very nice postal cancellation with a species (the stegosaur Paranthodon)
not depicted before.
New Zealand has issued a set of prehistoric animals stamps, also available on a VERY limited edition
miniature sheet.
New genera Baguatherium,
Paranthodon,
Pelorosaurus,
Xiaosaurus and
Yunnanosaurus added.
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Austria
Cape Verde
France
Guinea (Elephants and Mammoths)
Guinea (overprints)
Guinea-Bissau (mineral in shell)
Marshall Islands
Peru
Sao Tome e Principe (Wallace and Darwin)
South Africa
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
Comoros
Germany
Guinea (Les César)
Guinea-Bissau (man and cave paintings)
Macedonia
New Zealand
Pitcairn Islands
Serbia
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German post card and North Korean aerogramme added to covers.
Fellow collector Maurice Gardiol (France) kindly sent me scans of two wonderful Italian Sinclair meters he
has in his collection.
 
Species in the issues listed above have been added to the species lists.
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| ** UPDATE: NOVEMBER 4, 2009 ** |
Quite a few new issues this time, and also quite a number of new species, but no new cancels or meters.
A lot of countries have issued Darwin stamps. Darwin was born 200 years ago, and it is 150 years ago that
'On the origin of species' was published. Interestingly, a hominid evolution sequence is often included,
even though Darwin deliberately did not mention the origin of man in 'Origin'. He was well aware of the debate that
publication of his theory of evolution would cause, and did not want to add more fuel to the fire.
He published 'The descent of man' only when his evolution theory was broadly accepted.
More 'Darwin' is on the way, from Macedonia and Pitcairn, and I eagerly await a South African set
with both fossils and reconstructions of vertebrates.
New genera Abrictosaurus,
Ecphora,
Helicoprion,
Hybodus,
Malawisaurus,
Neovenator,
Nigersaurus,
Yaverlandia, and
Yunnanosaurus added.
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Comoros
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau
Lithuania
Sao Tome e Principe, 2009
Uruguay
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Faeroe
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Korea (North)
Sao Tome e Principe, 2009
Sao Tome e Principe, 2009
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Species in the issues listed above have been added to the species lists.
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| ** UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 4, 2009 ** |
Want list modified.
Having an opportunity to update my want list is a happy occasion. Via internet auction sites I
finally obtained the Madagascar overprints I had been looking for for ages - all of a sudden they
appeared for sale from a number of dealers. Judging from the amount of bidding, I was not the only collector
that still needed the Protoceratops overprint. So that is an annoying gap in my collection filled.
Even better are the two Congo stamps from the 1993 set, overprinted 'AUTORISÉ' that I found:
these were not even on my 'WANTED' list because I was very unsure if they existed at all.
It turns out that in Benin they still have stocks of older stamps to put overprints on,
even stocks of the 1985 Dahomey prehistoric animals airmail stamps. An overprint on the Tyrannosaurus
was issued last year, and now the Stegosaurus stamp has appeared with a new value.
A number of new French cancels and new Chinese covers have been added, as well as a
local issue from Tortuga Island, a cover from Bulgaria and an Australian prestige stamp booklet.
New genera Hippidion,
Mallotus,
Scaphites,
Schizoneura and
Thylacoleo added.
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Benin new overprints
Congo (Brazzaville)
Greenland
Guinea ´Stan Winston´
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Cuba
Guinea ´dinosaures et ...´
Italy
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Species in the issues listed above have been added to the species lists.
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| ** UPDATE: DECEMBER 3, 2008 ** |
BAD NEWS! My homepage has grown too big. This is why it has been inaccessible last November.
I will have to start looking for hosting as a regular website. As soon as I know what the new
internet address will be, I will post it.
As a result of this problem, (small) parts of the site will not display properly, and some images may
fail to load.
GOOD NEWS! The 'WANTED' page on this site has proven its value.
Fellow collector Marco Genius from Italy told me about a Belgian auction site, Delcampe.net, where
he had seen both Benin and Madagascar overprints on offer. As it turned out, I could get all the Benin
overprints on the Dahomey stamps, and two of the Madagascar overprints.
On eBay, I found a nice postally used copy of the Madagascar overprinted Uintatherium stamp.
I still need to find the overprint on the Madagascar Protoceratops stamp, however.
And that is not all. I also got a nice mailed cover bearing a local mail self-adhesive stamp
from Argentina with a prosauropod dinosaur depicted on it.
Michel catalogue numbers and issue dates have been added for some recent issues.
Many new French cancels
and a couple of English meter frankings added.
New genera Campanile
and Halkieria added.
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Egypt
Germany
Marshall Islands
Romania
Sao Tome e Principe (Neanderthal man)
Sao Tome e Principe (N. Steno)
Slovenia
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France
Greenland
Mongolia
Sao Tome e Principe (Dinosaurs)
Serf Republic
Solomon Islands
Guinea
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Species in the issues, cancels, and meter frankings listed above have been added to the species lists.
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| ** UPDATE: FEBRUARY 29, 2008 ** |
Michel catalogue numbers and issue dates added for some recent issues.
A couple of cancels
and meter frankings added,
thanks to Stephen McLachlan, I got some nice additions from New Zealand.
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| New issues: |
Andorra
Cyprus
Guinea
Niger
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Bosnia-Hercegovina
Guinea
Ireland
South Africa
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Stamp booklet cover from Morocco.
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Species in the issues, cancels, and meter frankings listed above have been added to the species lists.
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Precancel from the little town of Fossil, Oregon, USA.
Bought on eBay for the princely sum of US$2,25 for a plate block of four.
And that included postage.
P.S. I did not separate the stamps physically, only digitally. |
Shortly afterwards, I was rather surprised to see a second precancel from this town on offer on eBay.
This one reads 'FOSSIL OREG.' in capitals on two lines. It was a bit more expensive.
Some searching on the internet got me into contact with
Michael Hynes from the Precancel Stamp Society. He was very helpful, and informed me that there are four different precancels
from Fossil in all.
The ones described above are locally produced, and are known as L-1 HS and L-2 HS (the latter shown above).
There are two more, types 729 and 841, from 1933 and 1939, these read 'FOSSIL ORE.'
and 'FOSSIL OR' on two lines, respectively.
With the kind help of Sahrida Palazo at OPLI, I also obtained a cover cancelled at the Fossil post office.
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