Marine Mammals On Stamps... Dolphins, Whales, Seals, Etc

Common or harbor seal (Phoca vitulina), designed by Icelandic artist Þröstur Magnússon, engraved by Jules Pheulpin, and issued by Iceland on October 16, 1980, Scott No. 536, Facit No. 597.

- nethryk

Here is my contribution.

Traditional Inuit whale hunt, designed by Jens Christian Rosing, engraved by Arne Kühlmann, and issued by Greenland on September 30, 1982, Scott No. 148, Facit No. 138.

- nethryk

USA stamps of an USA-USSR Joint issue.

Good one, I forgot about that issue. Looks like you have the "inverted" copy???

;-) ;-)

I am truly dyslexic.

Rats! You fixed your scan! Now my post doesn't make sense! ;-) ;-) ;-)

I can laugh at my confusion between left and right at this stage of life (retired) but in grade six at school and not being able to read, it was quite traumatic.

I can imagine... school is hard enough to get through without having a learning disability!

Here are images of a couple of stamps depicting a Crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus), designed and engraved by Claude Andréotto, and issued for use in French Southern and Antarctic Territories on January 1, 1984, Scott Nos. 107 & 110. Note: Ironically, crabeater seals do not eat crabs (there are no crabs in Antarctic waters), but they consume more krill (shrimp-like crustaceans) than any other species.

- nethryk

Here is an image of an engraved stamp depicting a West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), designed by wildlife illustrator Eustorgio Méndez, and issued by Panama on December 5, 1984 as one of a set of four Panama fauna stamps (and a souvenir sheet), Scott No. 670.

- nethryk

"Parts is parts:" Whales' jaw-bones, designed by George Roberts, engraved and printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., Ltd., and issued for use in Falkland Islands on January 3, 1938, Scott No. 84, plus a photo of the church and whale bone arch in Stanley.

- nethryk

This set of marine mammals stamps from Singapore issued in 2006 features the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, the Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphin, the finless porpoise and the dugong or manatee. Scott 1172-1175.

That church is quite something... and I wonder if the stamp with the pink dolphins is accurate!

Nells250 -Thanks!

Here are images of the two stamps in a set depicting sea mammals, designed and engraved by Pierre Béquet, and issued for use in French Southern and Antarctic Territories on February 1, 1977, Scott Nos. 67 & 68.

- nethryk

Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)


Commerson's dolphins (Cephalorhynchus commersonii)