What Fish Stamps Do You Have???

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4th JANUARY 2015, DENMARK - Nordisk Madkultur
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shermae - Glad you liked the Mali fish set. I think you might enjoy viewing this set, too.

Here are images of the four stamps in a set depicting salt water fishes, designed and engraved (except as noted) by French artist Claude Durrens (1921-2003), and issued for use in Saint Pierre & Miquelon on March 7, 1972, Scott Nos. 419-21.

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Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), engraved by Georges Bétemps (1921-1992).


American plaice or sole (Hippoglossoides platessoides).


Deepwater redfish (Sebastes (marinus) mentella).


Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), engraved by Eugène Lacaque (1914-2005).

How about some licenses from the 1960's?

A fanciful fish stamp for the topic:

Here are images of two stamps depicting women fish-sellers of, respectively, Nazare and Lisbon, designed by Portuguese artist Raquel Roque Gameiro Ottolini (1889-1970), dies engraved by, respectively, Guilherme Augusto Santos and Marcelino Norte, printed by typography (letterpress), and issued by Portugal on April 4, 1941, Scott Nos. 605 & 608.

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Slovenia
Animals of Slovenia - Threatened Freshwater Fish
March 27, 1997
Marble Trout (Salmo marmoratus)
Streber (Zingel streber)
Vimba (Vimba vimba carinata)
European Mudminnow (Umbra krameri)

Iran
Fish from Caspian Sea
March 20, 2013
Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio)
Caspian Cutum (Rutilus frisii kutum)
Zander (Stizostedion lucioperca)
Caspian Brown Trout (Salmo trutta caspius)

Romania
Fauna - Fish
June 15, 2012
Molly Fish (Poecilia sphenops)
Sunfish (Eupomotis gibbosus)
Paradise Fish (Macropodus opercularis)
Firemouth Cichlid (Thorichthys meeki)

Tunisia
Fishes of Tunisia
July 15, 2012
Marble (Lithognathus mormyrus)
Saupe (Sarpa salpa)
Sardine (Sardina pilchardus)
Sparaillon (Diplodus sargus)

Men bartering fish for coconuts and taro, printed by photogravure, and issued by Papua New Guinea on August 18, 1971, Scott No. 332. Bonuses: Sail boat, bare feet (and bottoms!)

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Ireland
Fishes
October 9, 2001
Arctic Charr (Salvelinus alpinus)
Pike (Esox lucius)
European Perch (Perca fluviatilis)
Common Bream (Abramis brama)

Here are images of the two stamps in a sea life themed EUROPA set, designed and engraved by French artist Jacky Larrivière (1946- ), and issued by Monaco on May 22, 1986, Scott Nos. 1530 & 1531.

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Research vessel, marine life samples and microscope, commemorating the RAMOGE project (acronym for Saint-RAphaël - MOnaco - GEnoa), a nature protection treaty which began with the creation in 1970 of a pilot zone for a campaign against marine pollution in the coastal zone between Saint-Raphaël and Genoa.


National Marine Reserve, man-made habitat and fish.

Liechtenstein
Fauna - Fish
June 5, 1989
Northern Pike (Esox lucius)
Sea Trout (Salmo trutta lacustris)
Stone Loach (Barbatula barbatula)

Fiji
Freshwater Fish of Fiji
May 13, 2002
Redigobius sp.
Spotted Flagtail (Kuhlia marginata)
Silverstripe Mudskipper (Periophthalmus argentilineatus)
Snakehead Gudgeon (Giuris margaritacea)

Argentina
River Fish of Argentina
June 27, 1987
Metynnis maculatus
Cynolebias nigripinnis
Leporinus solarii
Aphyocharax rathbuni
Corydoras aeneus
Thoracocharax securis
Cynolebias melanotaenia
Cichlasoma facetum



Tetragonopterus argente
Hemigrammus caudovittatus
Astyanax bimaculatus
Gymnocorymbus ternetzi
Hoplias malabaricus
Aphyocharax rubripinnis
Apistogramma agassizi
Pyrrhulina rachoviana