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

Greenland 2005 Europa stamp (sc 445) featuring a cut of musk ox. Looks quite rare, slightly seared on the outside if at all.



Several other nations' 2005 Europa stamps also featured meat, of which I will give two examples.
Here's a nicely-done skewer from Portuguese Madiera:



and Gibraltar issued the following "rolitos de ternera" or "veal birds" together with three other stamps that are for the moment irrelevant which featured fish, a dessert, and a spinach pie.

Almost a still life in a butcher's shop for the food and farming year, 1989.

(Interesting, the musk ox cuts, I didn't know that this species was hunted; the dark color may be due to the dense vascularization of the meat which also accounts for the high content of iron. K.)

Next month's Stamp Smarter monthly contest will include this new mouse pad as part of the prize.



Don

You should sell a pile of those to us!
Best looking mousepad ever.

- Jonathan

In Portugal hogs can wander about under the old oak trees and graze and feed on acorns which gives Portuguese ham a unique flavor. 2012

The second small sheet features more Portuguese hogs and ham (air-cured and smoke-cured). 2012

Ham/bacon made from pigs grazing on the upper pastures of northern Italy "Alto Adige" is well known for its great quality. stamp of 2016

A placard painted on three boards, hung next to the door of a local restaurant or a butcher's shop looked like this. Fresh baked meatloaf with an egg inside. It is still made that way. 2015

(Is Dgwhite still there?)

Meat and fish in a traditional cooling house; in the winter it's below 0°. Part of a set featuring nordic food, 2016.

Another cooling room (by the looks of the landscape outside, it's winter) in a painting by P. Konchalovsky (1876-1956) issued for the artist's 100th birthday. USSR, 1976

Willem Claesz Heda (1594-1680) was a Dutch painter of still lifes. He must have rearranged the items on the breakfast table several times because the motif is seen in many of his works. "Breakfast Table with a Ham", painting in the Museum of Schwerin; DDR 1982. Photo of another Heda breakfast table.

Since ancient times, cattle have been domesticated, providing people with milk and meat and being trained for heavy work as draft animals. The DDR stamp shows a fries at the temple of Musawwarat in Sudan, dating from the third century BC. stamp of 1970, honoring the archeological work by members of the Humboldt University. The mural dates from an Egyptian tomb of the 14th century BC.

The "Belgian Blue" is a breed of cattle frequently seen grazing out on pastures in Belgium and northern France. It is raised primarily for beef. There is a mutant among Belgian Blue which causes the animals to grow so much muscle mass that you wonder how they can stand; it's called "double muscling". The ones shown in the stamp of 2012 are fairly normal.

The first fleet of 11 ships leaving England for Australia in the spring of 1787 stopped at the cape of Good Hope to load supplies as well as livestock of all sorts for the new colony. They arrived in Botany Bay in January 1788. Thus began the story of Australia as a continent of farmers growing beef cattle and sheep.

I just found this cancel while sorting a big box of kiloware. In Iowa, we would call this a "pig roast." Perhaps Kris Rascher has more details on the meaning of this cancel?

Linus