Herd Of Cattle? Bulls, Cows And Calves On Stamps

This 6.50 schilling stamp (Mi #2226) from Austria's "Sages and Legends" definitive series depicts the Wyvern/Dragon of Klagenfurt. In the story, a chained bull was used as bait to lure the dragon. Stamp issue date: July 11, 1997.

On March 29, 2006 Denmark issued a set of three Frama-style, computer-vended stamps with a landscapes theme. One of these stamps (Mi #29) depicts dairy cows relaxing in a pasture.

Thailand - 2005:

An airplane flying over a bullock cart is depicted on the 35c value (Sc #C30) from Bolivia's July 24, 1930 airmail set of eight different values. This set is comprised of four values each of two different designs.

Here are the two low values (Sc #s 384-5) of Bolivia's August 2, 1954 set of six stamps commemorating the first anniversary of the country's agricultural reforms.

On December 39, 1959 India issued this 15 naye paise (n.p.) stamp (Sc #327) to publicize the First World Agricultural Fair held in New Delhi.

Spanish-style bullfighting, known as a corrida de toros (literally a "running of the bulls") is practices in Spain, where it originates, Portugal and several Latin America countries. In a traditional corrida, three toreros, also called matadores, each fight against two out of a total of six fighting bulls.

Bullfighting, issued by Spain on February 29, 1960:

Here is the 10c value (Sc #199) from Chile's 1938-40 definitive set of 12.

A bull's head serves as the lesser coat of arms for the free state of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on this letter seal for the District Court in the city of Schwerin.

Second pic shows the greater (full) coat of arms of the free state of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

From Wikipedia, "Mecklenburg-Schwerin was a Duchy from 1701-1815, a Grand-Duchy from 1815-1918, and a free-state from 1918-34 in the Northeast of present Germany."

This post-WWI, Austrian "lost territories" cinderella shows the coat of arms of Bukovina. Inscription at the bottom of the label states, "official warfare".

From wikipedia, "A region of Moldavia during the Middle Ages, the territory of what became known as Bukovina was, from 1774-1918, an administrative division of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire, and Austria-Hungary. After World War I, Romania established control over Bukovina. In 1940, the northern half of Bukovina was annexed by the Soviet Union in violation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and is currently part of Ukraine."

Cattle on Prehistoric Rock and Cave Paintings:

In 1950 Panama issued the third version of its intaglio-printed "bullock cart laden with sugar cane" 2c value (Sc #376) of its Local Motives series of 1942-52. The previous two 2c stamps are monochrome (red).

The famous bull cave painting from Altamira cave, Spain:

On February 14, 2004 Lithuania issued this 1.40 litas stamp (Sc #764) as a a part of its Municipal Coats of Arms series. Stamp depicts the arms of Ukmerge, a town of about 20,000 inhabitants. Ukmerge dates from around the year 1225. It is in Vilnius County, central Lithuania.

From heraldry-wiki.com, "Ukmerge received city rights in 1792...On the same day the arms were granted...The bull was the symbol of the Poriatowski family. The city at the time was governed by Stanislaus Augustus Poriatowski, King of Poland and Lithuania."

This 5c value (Sc #248/SG #360) from North Borneo's 1950-2 KGVI pictorial series depicts a steer at Kota Belud/Kota Kinabalu in the northwest of the country. The cattle industry must still be thriving there as the following newspaper article indicates.

From thestar.com.my, "Thursday, 12 November 2012...Kota Kinabalu: Local authorities in Sabah's 'cowboy' town are not taking the menace of cattle straying lightly. They have literally lifted out cows using cranes as they crack down on the entire problem blamed for numerous accidents and hygiene problems."