Dragons Of The World

Those dragons would look great on covers
Wish I had friends in those countries..

I agree Leng. Will have to keep looking for stamp exchange pals.

Year of the Dragon 2012 - Macau

Souvenir sheet. The black text is actually silver, but my scanner can't pick that up.

Year of the Dragon 2012 - France

Souvenir sheet:

Year of the Dragon 2012 - Hong Kong

The dragon stamps from two souvenir sheets - gold and silver:

Wow, lovely stamp and cancel BK! I am all out of dragons at the moment.

In East Asia, the blue dragon is often associated with the coming of spring. Here is an image of a definitive stamp depicting a blue dragon fresco, Koguryo Dynasty (c. 37 BCE - 668), printed by lithogravure, and issued by Korea in 1965, Scott No. 374A.

- nethryk

Thanks BAYERN1kreuzer and nethryk, beautiful dragons!

Yet another Welsh dragon. You can never have too many, I figure.



Don't think we've seen this one yet.

Thanks jamesw, beautiful stamp and dragon! I don't think we have that one yet.

I thought I was out of dragons, and then this souvenir sheet on a cover arrived from my cover exchange friend in Indonesia this week. Year of the Dragon 2012, with dragon PM too:

specifically for BAYERN1kreuzer: a wonderful message and I want to add:
Russia has its own tradition of the dragon: the fairy tales, painting in the church and in the history of St. George the dragon is a serpent (the old Beast).



The dragon (the serpent) is the embodiment of evil forces. In today's Palekh lacquer miniature "The Victory" from the defeated dragon is depicted - a symbol of fascism.



Saint George and the dragon became the emblem of Moscow and represented a very small ancient coins, which are still called in honor of St. George's spear (spear-kopie)-kopeika. These coins, they can see the silhouette of a horseman with a spear, a St. George killing the dragon.



In honor of St. George was named Chief Military Order of Russia - the Order of St. George. At the souvenir sheet shows the old icon of St. George and the dragon and the detail of the painting "Attack of Grodno (black) Hussars in 1812."



In the foreground is the famous General Kulnev, Commander of the Order of George 3 degrees.

Wow, that one is nice. Thanks for sharing!

scifi7 - Thanks. We're seeing some great stamp images in this thread. Here is an image of one depicting the head of a guardian dragon, printed by photogravure, and issued by Ryukyus Islands on January 21, 1950, Scott No. 11.

- nethryk

The most famous European dragon - Fafnir, was killed Siegfried, hero of the ancient Germanic legends, "The Poetic Edda" and "Song of the Nibelungs." Stamps of Austria Nibelungs were issued in 1926



But in this edition there is a dragon - a ship of another German hero - Gunter.



Old Norse ship - Drakkar, literally ship-dragon. On this ship, Leif Ericson first reached the shores of America,



The Norsemen were such ships on the rivers of eastern Europe route from the Varangians to the Greeks, the painting of Roerich "Overseas visitors". By the way, the artist Nicholas Roerich believed himself a descendant of the legendary Varangian Rurik.



In Norway, a few remains of the treasure found and restored ships, Drakkar, this photo from the museum in Oslo and Lofoten.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a Boy Scout on horseback emulating St. George subduing the Dragon, designed by A. Tassos (pseudonym of Greek artist and engraver Anastasios Alevizos, 1914-1985), printed by lithogravure, and issued by Greece on April 23, 1960 as one of eight stamps in a set commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Greek Boy Scout Movement, Scott No. 669, SG No. 829.

- nethryk