Skeleton Stamps

Bophuthatswana

The Republic of Bophuthatswana was a Bantustan (also known as "Homeland"; an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity) which was declared nominally independent by the apartheid regime of South Africa in 1977. However, its independence, like the other Bantustans (Ciskei, Transkei and Venda) was not recognized by any country other than South Africa. (Wiki)

1978

Traffic safety

4v

This bizarre stamp depicts a skull driving a car!

Dominican Republic
International Museum Day
May 21, 2014
Set of 12, one stamp depicts the skeleton model of a humpback whale.

The Neanderthal, or valley of Neander was named after Joachim Neander (17th century), and gave Neanderthal fossils their name. Skeletal remains had been found in the valley in 1856 and just 20 years ago more bone fragments were discovered. The new museum is marvelous as are the many educational points in the valley and the herds of animals which roamed in stone-age times (here the Wisent).

United States
Tyrannosaurus rex
August 29, 2019
Set of four, one stamp, with special printing, shows the fossil form of a young adult T rex and a juvenile Triceratops.

Spain

1997

100 years of birth of dr.Joseph Trueta - 1v

Josep Trueta I Raspall (1897-1977) was a Catalan nationalist and formed part of a group exiled in the United Kingdom who denounced the situation of Catalonia in Francoist Spain. During the Spanish Civil War he was the chief of trauma services for the main hospital in Barcelona.

USA Scott RS56d

Venda

1988

Venda was a Bantustan in northern South Africa. The United Nations and international community refused to recognise Venda (or any other Bantustan) as an independent state.

The stamp shows a classroom for nurses, where we see a skeleton.

France

1957

Famous inventors - 4v

The stamp remebers the 101 years of birth of Antoine Béclére (1856-1939), founder of the radiology in France. The stamp depicts a person seen trough a x-ray, exposing the bones.

Mongolia

Dancing masks - 7v

The stamp depicts a mask with bones

Mary Douglas Leakey (1913 – 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, eastern Africa. For much of her career she worked with her husband, Louis Leakey, at Olduvai Gorge, where they uncovered fossils of ancient hominines and the earliest hominins, as well as the stone tools produced by the latter group. Mary Leakey developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She discovered the Laetoli footprints, and at the Laetoli site she discovered hominin fossils that were more than 3.75 million years old.

These stamps and SS were issued by Togo in 2013 to commemorate centenary of Leakey's birthdays. Stamps depicting Mary Leakey and several of her famous findings:

Leakey and a reconstruction of Proconsul africanus:

Leakey and the skull of Proconsul africanus:

Leakey and the skull of Paranthropus boisei:

Leakey and reconstruction of Australopithecus afarensis based on her discovery of the oldest human ancestor footprints in Laetoli, Tanzania:

Leakey and the skull of Paranthropus boisei:

Bulgaria

1978

History paintings - 5v

The stamp depicts the painting 'Support my Hand' from bulgariam artist Zlatyu Georgiev Boyadzhiev 1903 – 1976). He is known for his portraits and landscapes, depicting mainly the Old Town of Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second largest city, and village life in the region.

Romania

1968

Paintings - 6v

The stamp depicts the paint Man with skull, from the artist Dieric Bouts (1415 - 1475), an early netherlandish painter. In some fonts on the web I found this painting be attributed to Aelbrecht Bouts , son of Dieric.

GB 22 October 2001
Flags and Ensigns: Jolly Roger



Stamp archive of GB shows description about the Jolly Roger here, which includes the image below - you can enlarge and read it on site.

http://www.collectgbstamps.co.uk/ex...?issue=22506

A skull has a lot of cigarette in its mouth...

7 September 1976, Czechoslovakia
"Stop Smoking"

Design: J. Liesler / Engrave: M. Ondrácek

Nebraska State Marijuana Tax Stamp