Thematic : Elephants.

Some prehistorical "Elefants"
Mammoth

France 2008, part of set of 4 values

Hungary 1990

Mastodon


India 1951. The first stamp depicted prehistorical animal

Woolly Mammoth:

Jersey 2010, part of set of 5 values

There are three "Elephants" (from left to right):
Mastodon Roaming Prairie
Mammoth Walking in Snowstorm
Mastodon Mother and Baby Drinking in Marsh


Marshal Islands 2009, Prehistoric Animals - Cenozoic Era

Mammoth and Mastodon



Mongolia 1967. part of set of 8 stamps

Hi friends I am sharing a FDC with elephants..

1)This cover is posted from Rhodesia to UK? (not sure)
2)Its an FDC with date of issue 1-march-1971 - there is first day cancellation on cover, and The number of stamps used is 5. five stamps would have been used to enable its postal usage, rather than just a cancelled fdc.
3)It would have reached UK with in a week
4) The postal strike ended on 8th march.
5)There is an emergency mail cancellation on cover.
But what would have happened to this cover?
*attempt is made to remove the stamps.
*white paper is struck over the stamps and re-franked and posted on 18-march-1971.

**A collector who would have received this cover will not post it again by sticking a paper and damaging the cover.
** If it was not sent to a collector,and was sent as a normal mail, then why would the person who received the mail stick a white paper and post it in his name again? (we can see that the address is not repeated or no sticker is used over the address.
**Can it be a system used by the postal department to deliver the accumulated mails during the strike period.

Can it be some effects of Postal strike?
what would have happened to this cover? any idea??

Travancore (A state of south India, existed till 1949), Plate proof SG49 (1931 coronation issue)

I don't think we've had these yet.

Two more with the group

Any one interested in elephant stamps!
I collect only elephants.. I can give you back, stamps , covers , cancellations etc on elephants..(and other topics, if I have them ..., I have some other topics too, which are not a part of my collection), I can also give you new stamps of India.

In return I need elephants.. any philatelic material related to elephant.. or mammoth, ganesha (elephant god).

I am a sailor and wont be at home at all times.. so that we have to fix the deal before exchanging..

How much will postage be and will they still be alive?

African Bush or African Savannah Elephant (Loxodonta africana) and World Wildlife Fund emblem, printed by lithogravure, and issued (CTO) by Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) on August 30, 1979, Scott No. 509.

- nethryk

@Anthony: if you are interested we can sent them in a ship.. he he.. or I can bring an elephant with me when I come to Aberdeen next time..

A special cover released on the occasion of an elephant race on a temple in my state (Available for swap)

Cameroun 1939 issue SG 133-144,and 2 1940 overprints dated "27-8-40" Cameroun Francis