Cryptozoology On Stamps

The most recent issue of the ATA journal, Topical Time, had an article on stamps featureing Cryptids - mythological or extinct species some believe are still with us today. An example would be the Loch Ness monster. Bigfoot, or the Tasmanian tiger.

For example, there is this New Zealand issue depicting the extinct Giant Moa:



To read an interesting article about Cryptozoology in Philately, click: http://www.pibburns.com/cryptost.htm

This site is suitable for members of all ages - even they are 16 and from "down under!"

Fascinating. He's put together quite a site on the subject. I had never heard of it, and to see that so many nations have issued topical stamps along those lines.

Come on folks! Cryptozoology on stamps should be getting more response than this.

I'm not going to stoop so low as to start a thread about Marilyn Monroe on stamps just to win a contest!

How many stamps are in the series? How would you obtain them?

Thanks

Good Luck

Ha!

Nice!!

I think I may have some crypto things. I'll check when I get home. May this time it'll take me less than 5 posts to upload an image HAHAHA!!

Great stamps.

Now I know what a Bunyip is supposed to look like.

Steve

Here's a stamp I received by accident. It was stuck between the pages of a book.
LeAnn

This is US Brontosaurus mistake stamp (Scott #2425) issued in 1989. This dinosaur is correctly referred to as Apatosaurus. As I recall the mistake was pointed out to the postal service at the time of issue and they went ahead and proudly issued the mistake, much to the chagrin of scientists and teachers everywhere, similar to the situation we have now with the Dr. Cori Scientist stamp to be released next month, which honors her for the discovery of glucose-1-phosphate by providing a stamp showing an incorrect chemical structure of her discovery. The "Pteradon" stamp in this "Dinosaur" series (Scott #2423) also has a mistake in the name (misspelling of Pteranodon) and Pteranodon is actually a pterosaur, not a dinosaur. Furthermore there exist errors of these stamps with the black color completely missing.

Wow, this is a great topic, LaSwabbie. The Cryptozoology in Philately web site is really impressive. I would have never guessed there were so many coelacanth stamps.

I guess its because the Coelacanth is the one true Cryptid to actually be found. In modern times the first one was found back aroud 1935. They thought it had been extinct for 65 million years. I think that's kind of cool myself.

LeAnn's stamp



A helping hand from... mila_

Neat stuff! Those are all great stamps,too ! What an interesting subject--Loch Ness, Big Foot, etc. I swear on our farm , as a kid, we had a Big Foot! When we would go camping by the Dry Fork River we could hear his footsteps in the woods! Even the adults heard it and thought it was too weird! I never played too long by myself in the woods after that! Kinda like my fear of SHARKS--if you don't know what's in there with you---don't go in!

Gussyboy1

I hope I'm posting this to the right topic. Went through my Collection looking for Dino's.

This is what I got.

Very nice covers jeffreyice.

They are nice! It seems that we are having more covers on the threads than stamps lately.... !

Jim