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What's an Indian Elephant doing on a stamp from Africa?
Perhaps he has absquatulated from a visiting Circus?
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Absquatulate : to abscond, leave in a hurry. US coinage, similar to words like "skedaddle" To the lads who used to read "Zane Grey" westerns "He hitched his prad to the sprig of a skunkweed hunkered down and fished for the makings. He rolled a thin quirly and mused on the day" Elephants on ebay.....Wow! that's impressive from the Bobster. |
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absquatulated isnt that what sasquatch does to hikers in the mountains  |
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| Edited by jhlovell - 06/17/2011 1:49 pm |
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Have done some work on the Elephant Database, someone sent me an Elephant "planking" in RSA.....  |
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The gentleman's wife in the passenger side
probably fainted when she witnessed that view.
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Here is an image of a stamp depicting an elephant, designed by Henry Cheffer, engraved by Jean Pheulpin, and issued for use in French Equatorial Africa on November 4, 1957, Scott No. 197. - nethryk  |
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That A.E.F. 197 is a real beauty! Edit: I keep coming back to look at the stamp -- I think I find it so striking because the artist has done such a fantastic job of making the elephant appear so large on such a small canvas. I've set it as the wallpaper on my laptop |
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| Edited by kirks - 06/23/2011 5:58 pm |
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KirkS - Thanks! And now for some rather posh Indian elephants, here is an image of a stamp depicting the ceremonial procession ( raja perahera) held during the 1954 royal visit of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh to Ceylon, engraved and printed by Thomas De La Rue & Company, Ltd., and issued by Ceylon (since 1972, Sri Lanka) on April 10, 1954, Scott No. 318, SG No. 434. - nethryk  |
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| Edited by nethryk - 06/23/2011 2:31 pm |
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