Updates

UPDATE: FEBRUARY 5, 2012 The new year has started well for my collection, I obtained some overdue issues recently. Among these is a prestige booklet the United Kingdom Royal Mail has issued commemmorating the 350-th anniversary of the Royal Society. A prestige booklet was also issed for the French Antarctic Territories, one stamp shows fossil coral. I also found a new meter franking from the 'sauriermuseum' in the German town of Frick.
Laura Termes got me some very nice cancels from the Canadian towns of Carrot River, Drumheller, Herschel, and Parrsboro. The Carrot River cancel is particularly good, it shows a new species in paleophilately; Terminonaris. Thanks Laura!
Another good find is the picture of dinosaur footprints on a Bolivian FDC. The stamps show touristical sights of the Sucre department, and I had not seen the FDC of this 2007 (14-th of December) issue until now.
More and more companies and institutions discover personalised stamps as a promotion medium. This used example is from a New Zealand company. I also added a French stamp with a Pliosaur and a Spanish stamp with a Tyrannosaurus skeleton, both from a museum, to my collection.
New genera: Algoasaurus, Appalachiosaurus, Deltadromeus, Nomingia, Preondactylus New issues:
French Antarctic Territories Guinea Korea (North) (also a stamp booklet) Mozambique	Germany Guinea (triangles) Korea (South) United Kingdom
A 'not so new issue' is a 1958 Argentina stamp. It depicts the building of the museum of La Plata town. Which has Smilodon statues guarding the entrance, instead of the more ususal lions. Thanks Raphael! Species in the issues, cancels, and meter frankings listed above have been added to the species lists.

UPDATE: JUNE 14, 2011
Finally, a new update is ready for uploading. Apart from the continuing deluge of issues from Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Sao Tome e Principe, things have been relatively quiet. Which is just as well for my wallet. I have added scans to a couple of issue descriptions, and a few cancels. Fellow collector Michael Kogan kindly pointed out a couple of errors to me, which I have corrected. We also discussed the status of the issues for Abchasia and other (would-be) independent ex-Soviet republics. This led to me doing some research on the internet. I have decided not to list these issues. I have included a link to his site (partly still under construction) on the 'introduction' page. Not that many new genera this time: Bahariasaurus, Bambiraptor, Fukuiraptor, Panthera, Pontoceros, Stephanorhinus, and Thalassocnus.
Although I had decided not to list personalised stamps on this site, I could not resist showing this scan of a very nice Spanish example from 2009. Depicted are two belemnites, two ammonites, a sea urchin, and the mould of the interior of a gastropod. Regrettably, I do not know the names of the species.
New issues:
Belgium Finland Guinea-Bissau, 2010 (crocodiles) Guinee, 2006 (dated 2005) Iraq Malta Moldovia Peru Sweden	Bulgaria Guinea-Bissau, 2010 (asteroids) Guinea-Bissau, 2011 Guinee, 2006 Japan Micronesia Paraguay South Africa Ukraine
Species in the issues, cancels, and meter frankings listed above have been added to the species lists.

UPDATE: OCTOBER 31, 2010
A little while ago, I installed the Firefox browser on my PC. . . and ran into a couple of frustrating problems. I discovered that the 'errors' page was unreadable for users of the 'Firefox' browser, because it flatly refuses to display text in other colours than black. Well, 'flatly', you have to tell it in a specific way, which I finally found on the internet. I also corrected some other errors and problems. Should you, as user of this site, run into problems, please report them to me, I will try to solve them. I found a very nice cancel from the United Kingdom, with a Pteranodon, as well as some German and South Korean meter frankings. A lot of new genera this time, I added: Alectrosaurus, Anhanguera, Archaeamphora, Caviramus, Chindesaurus, Climatius, Confuciusornis, Craspedites, Edrioaster, Guarinisuchus, Jeletzkytes, Kaprosuchus, Maclurites, Mei, Moanasaurus, Prolecanites, Turiasaurus, and Zuniceratops.
	Stamp from the Mammoth City local mail service, U.S.A. Regrettably, I do not know when this stamp was issued, not even in which town, as there is more than one town of Mammoth in the U.S.A.
New issues:
Comoros (discoveries) Comoros (fossils) Grenada Guinea (Darwin) Korea (North) Monaco New Zealand Sao Tome e Principe (fish) Sao Tome e Principe (crocodiles) Togo	Comoros (prehistoric animals) Comoros (hominids) Guinea (dinosaurs) Guinea-Bissau Korea (South) Mozambique Sao Tome e Principe (dinosaurs) Sao Tome e Principe (dinosaurs) Switzerland
North Korea has issued a cover and a stamp booklet as well as the set. Species in the issues, cancels, and meter frankings listed above have been added to the species lists.

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 red, 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.
New issues:
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	Bosnia-Herzegovina Comoros Germany Guinea (Les César) Guinea-Bissau (man and cave paintings) Macedonia New Zealand Pitcairn Islands Serbia
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.

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.
New issues:
Comoros Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau Lithuania Sao Tome e Principe, 2009 Uruguay	Faeroe Guinea Guinea-Bissau Korea (North) Sao Tome e Principe, 2009 Sao Tome e Principe, 2009
Species in the issues listed above have been added to the species lists.

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.
New issues:
Benin new overprints Congo (Brazzaville) Greenland Guinea ´Stan Winston´	Cuba Guinea ´dinosaures et ...´ Italy
Species in the issues listed above have been added to the species lists.

UPDATE: JUNE 6, 2009
Sooner than I expected, I have managed to include the backlog of new (and not so new, in some cases) issues and data. I am still waiting for a number of sets from issue-happy countries like Guinea. From now on, this site should be updated more frequently. Michel catalogue numbers added for some recent issues. Australia 'Megafauna' stamp booklet and prestige booklet added. New genera Aculea, Ernietta, Genyornis, Lophosoria, Megalania, Pachypteris, Pteridinium, Rangea, Swartpuntia, and Thylacoleo added.
New issues:
Australia British Antarctic Territory Comoros France Hungary Mozambique Peru Sao Tome e Principe Slovakia	Bosnia Hercegovina Congo (Kinshasa) Denmark Guinea Korea (North) Namibia Portugal Serf Republic Thailand
Species in the issues listed above have been added to the species lists.

UPDATE: MAY 31, 2009

A NEW HOME

It took me a long time, but at last I have found a new, bigger home for 'STAMPED OUT'. From now on, it has its own URL, www.stampedout.nl, with plenty of room for further growth.
Because the new host computer has a different operating system, the site may show some minor (I sincerely hope!) problems at first. It is possible that some images or even pages fail to load. I am checking every single link and image, but this will take time.
I am also way behind with the description of new issues, but I have hope that I will get around to including them fairly soon.

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.
New issues:
Egypt Germany Marshall Islands Romania Sao Tome e Principe (Neanderthal man) Sao Tome e Principe (N. Steno) Slovenia	France Greenland Mongolia Sao Tome e Principe (Dinosaurs) Serf Republic Solomon Islands Guinea
Species in the issues, cancels, and meter frankings listed above have been added to the species lists.

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.
New issues:
Andorra Cyprus Guinea Niger	Bosnia-Hercegovina Guinea Ireland South Africa
Stamp booklet cover from Morocco.
Species in the issues, cancels, and meter frankings listed above have been added to the species lists.
	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.

UPDATE: NOVEMBER 26, 2007
Michel catalogue numbers added for many recent issues. A couple of cancels and meter frankings added. A number of errors and illustration sources added.
New issues:
Ecuador Sao Tome e Principe	Korea (North)
Species in the issues, cancels, and meter frankings listed above have been added to the species lists.

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UPDATE: FEBRUARY 5, 2012

UPDATE: JUNE 14, 2011

UPDATE: OCTOBER 31, 2010

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UPDATE: NOVEMBER 4, 2009

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UPDATE: JUNE 6, 2009

UPDATE: MAY 31, 2009

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UPDATE: FEBRUARY 29, 2008

UPDATE: NOVEMBER 26, 2007