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I'm Interested In Collecting Meat Stamps, Looking For Opinions On How To Approach This

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Posted 02/13/2020   10:54 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add dgwhite87 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
now that would be a gem for my collection!

I think I'm going to start with beef. Thanks for the directional help everyone
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Posted 02/13/2020   2:25 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jleb1979 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Rogdcam - I knew you would do the cattle in the storm.

Folks have touched on doing what you want to do, but you do want to set some guidelines for yourself. You might eventually determine you want to expand for whatever reason, but it will help in your approach to things to be systematic.

As I saw the topic develop - which is a very good one, my first thought was whether poultry would be in -- or out. Your call, of course.... Here is US Scott 968 from 1948. A stamp which ignores a lot of poultry production from the pilgrims onward, but it is what it is.




I had an uncle who was a butcher. At big Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners hosted by my grandmother, he would always demur from carving the turkey, saying he'd been cutting meat all week. This put the onus on my father. After one side of the turkey was hacked up by dad, my uncle would say, "I might have another piece." and with a few deft movements he would carve the rest of the bird beautifully.... Butchery always has impressed me.


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France had in 2008 a series on food.
Bread, oysters... oh, it was all so good.

Here is pot au feu featuring beef.



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Some more meat-related items ...

Cinderella from Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, Boys Town, Nebraska. This seal appeared for several years in at least 2 sizes.


Cinderella sheet from The Omaha Home for Boys, circa mid-1970s, also comes in a blue/black 2-color version.


Postcard of Union Stock Yards, Chicago, postmarked 1915.


Postcard of Swift's beef cooler, probably at Chicago.


Front and back of 1902 "International Live Stock Exposition ad cover. (With scarce Barr-Fyke tassel-flag machine cancel.)



Libby's canned meats:


1956 meter slogans for the 50th anniversary of the Meat Inspection Act of 1906, parallel to the 1906 Pure Food & Drugs Act.


On to Swine .....

Non-philatelic tangent, stereocard showing hogs in Armour's cooling room.



Both sides of cover with humorous "berkshire" back flap graphic:



Front side of 5 Swift & Company covers with illustrated ads on the reverse side which follow in the same order in the 5 additional scans.


Swift #A, 1900.


Swift #B, 1900.


Swift #C, 1903.


Swift #D, 1908.


Swift #E, 1929.


Image cropped from an embossed envelope.


Buffalo, Wyoming parcel box cancel.


Marrowbone, KY, what a great town name!!

(dgwhite, when you get 50 posts, send me a note with your address and I will mail you the Marrobone cover if you want it.)
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Posted 02/14/2020   12:10 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Kris Rascher to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
A stamp issued by Argentina in 1958 features a Ganaderia or cattle ranch. The cattle look like Herefords in a mixed herd.

(Dgwhite, the "Western Cattle in Storm" is historically very interesting, take a look at "The Vanguard" painting by the Scottish artist MacWirther. Makes that stamp quite special. K.)
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Must have been quite a storm to move those Highland cattle from Scotland to the Mississippi!
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Here is the 1973 rural america issue featuring Angus.
Sc 1504




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I am enjoying this topic. Great items, everyone. Here is one from my collection.

Linus



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Posted 02/14/2020   09:21 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jleb1979 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
France issued a rather extensive set of regional cattle breeds in 2014:


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Another good one :)
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Posted 02/15/2020   12:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Kris Rascher to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The German stamp of 1987 is one in a set of "Trades". The butcher/sausage maker (Fleischer) is featured as he was seen in earlier times and as seen nowadays. The surcharge is for youth projects.
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Here is another cover from my collection for the topic.

Linus





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On the BOB front, don't forget there are Meat Inspection Stamps!!!!

Search ebay for "meat inspection" stamps and BIN


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Posted 02/16/2020   07:19 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Kris Rascher to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
A topical can encompass history such as that illustrated in the New Zealand map, or even the history of various animal breeds. That reminded me of the large souvenir sheet featuring two ancient breeds which have again become popular. Both are known for high quality meat. D 2017 (For the photograph the animals stood on a kind of sheet, so the wrinkles are part of the picture.)
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