Thematic : Elephants.

Sri Lanka
Kumana National Park
January 26, 2016
Set of seven, one stamp shows an Asian elephant.
Kumana National Park on the southeastern cost of the island. It is renowned for its large flocks of migratory waterfowl and wading birds. The number of elephants roaming in the Kumana is estimated at 30–40.

Malawi
The Big Five of Malawi
November 3, 2011
African elephant (Loxodonta africana)

Australia
Stamp Collecting Month - Endangered Wildlife
September 20, 2016
Set of seven, one stamp depicts Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus).

Egypt
125th Anniversary of Giza Zoo
December 2, 2016
Set of eight, one stamp shows an elephant.

Belgium official mail..

Very nice stamps

Poland
Animals of Africa
April 30, 2009
Set of four, one stamp shows elephant.

An oldie.

This pictorial machine cancel celebrates the 100th birth anniversary of Carl Hagenbeck (1844 - 1913) which is odd, because it was used in 1948. Hagenbeck is the father of the "Hagenbeck Revolution", or modern zoo. He transformed the old concept of animals in cages with bars to animals in natural settings with moats.

Cameroon
Endangered Animals
September 20, 1979
Set fo five, one stamp depicts African Elephant (Loxodonta africana).

bookbndrbob - The machine cancel is not actually celebrating the 100th birth anniversary of Carl Hagenbeck. It appears to be celebrating the 100th anniversary of Hagenbeck Zoo, which traces its origin to 1848, when Carl's father, Gottfried Claes Carl Hagenbeck, a fishmonger, acquired 6 seals from his fishermen, and started exhibiting them. He acquired more animals, and eventually his son, Carl, turned the whole operation into a zoo.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottf...rl_Hagenbeck

Bulgaria, 1988, celebrating 100 years of the Sofia zoo.

Botswana
Elephants in Botswana
March 14, 2016
The stamp set depicts elephants foraging, mother and calf, cooling down in the Okavango Delta, and seeking water.
(Artist: Ditshupo Mogapi)

Don't mind at all Kirk, I agree it is a lovely design. Here is another KGVI lovely design with Elephant.


1938 Northern Rhodesia high value.