Australia
Brasil Canada Colombia Federal Republic of Germany German Reich German Democratic Republic Färöer Jugoslawia Kenya Madagaskar Namibia Austria Romania Republic of Southafrica Switzerland Slowenia Uruguay USA Cyprus |
Recently I made the philately or knowledge about stamps to one of my hobbies, not only because of the following
definition of the greek word - philatelist - by Georges Herpin in the year 1864,
which goes like this:
It is also because, within the stamp pile inherited from my Great-Grandfather and my Grandfather, I found a couple of stamps, showing minerals and
fossils upon, which I picked out to present them here. Meanwhile I bought several stamps more -
for example the one from Slowenia with Fluorite as a stereoscopic image, watch the 3D effect!
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Until now I have these stamps:
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Itīs not that many, as one can see on the left, but an article in "Lexikon des Mineralienatlas", regarding that topic,
is an incentive to extend the collection - you may continue reading here
- www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/Briefmarken -
and learn which countries already issued stamps with pictures of minerals.
Here you find a superb list, sorted by mineral name - Philatelic Mineralogy - wow! One more searchable list is colnect.com, look for themes or search countrywise! Or look at catawikis catalogue catawiki - stamps Another very fine website is this - lapisphilatelie - minerals and mining on stamps and more. You can find a substantial list at this stamp dealer page - Edelsteine und Mineralien auf Briefmarken - Note: I do not have any connections there in terms of business, this is for information purpose only! |