Show Us Your Big Cats On Stamps!

I think Maine Coon Cats like water... can anyone confirm? Also, Tigers seem happy with water...

Would love to see a Maine Coon, Nells250!
Puzzler, I too was fascinated when I saw a Fishing Cat at the wildlife park here "in action"

Here's a cover from The Philippines showing the Leopard Cat (Felis minuta) on a 1979 stamp.
2 of the stamps plus the metered stamp make up the airmail rate from Philippines to Singapore in 2010.

Ussuri or Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), designed by Russian artist Vladimir Dmitrievich Kolganov (1923- ), printed by lithogravure, and issued by Russia (USSR) on August 19, 1972, Scott No. 3763, Zagorski No. 3840.

- nethryk

Here are images of the two stamps in a set depicting snow leopards (Uncia uncia), printed by photogravure, and issued by China (People's Republic) on July 20, 1990, Scott Nos. 2287 & 2288.

- nethryk

I, as usual, will show the most interesting stamps of Russia, dedicated to big cats.

Separately, talk about the stamp 1959 with a Siberian tiger. The author of this series stamps is a great Russian artist, animal painter A. Komarov, from the galaxy of great Russian artists such as Serov, Levitan, Vrubel, Makovsky.

In the 50 years he designed the textbooks and it was a model for any designer of children's books.
Another interesting story: brand devoted to the poem "The Knight in the Panther's Skin", a medieval Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli. The stamps depicted the episode wrestling with a tiger warrior.


At the souvenir sheet "Ancient Art" are two images of a lion: stone and metal.



Sikhote-Alin Reserve: the natural habitat of the Siberian tiger.

I like the Snow Leopards

Speaking of snow leopards.. Afghanistan 1964 SC683



A snow leopard.

Nells250 - Thanks!

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a pair of snow leopard cubs, designed and engraved by Lars Sjööblom after a photo by C. Larsson, and issued by Sweden on February 28, 1997, Scott No. 2222, Facit No. 2008.

- nethryk

What year is the WWF sheetlet please Alexey?

Hope not posted before (not checked)

Jaguar : Bolivia

a souvenir sheetlet was released in 2007, it's called "Endangered species of animals": far eastern stork, snow leopard, zubr

Thanks Alexey,
I see Zubr comes up with "Bison Vodka" :)
So must be Bison, the Canadian wood bison is endangered.

Sorry for the story of the bison in the section about the big cat.
Zubr (aurochs) and bison - are two different animals of one species, but they are so similar that they are born healthy offspring.



Zubr (bison bonasus, Lat.) found in Europe in two nature reserves - Bialowieza Forest (in Poland and Belarus) and the Caucasian Reserve, bison live in America (bison bison, Lat.). The main difference between a bison - it is a very thick wool. Now bison are trying to breed in the Moscow region, near St. Petersburg and Altai.

Boy and lion, printed by photogravure, and issued for use in Rio Muni on June 1, 1966 to benefit the children's welfare fund, Scott No. 58.

- nethryk

A couple from South Africa.

According to Korean folk tradition, the magpie and the tiger were animals symbolic of exorcizing evil spirits and fending off disasters and diseases. To ensure good luck in the year ahead, people often hung a picture depicting these two creatures in their homes on New Year's Day. Here is an image of a stamp showing a traditional "Magpie and Tiger" painting, designed by Korean artist Kim Jae-min, printed by lithogravure, and issued by (South) Korea on March 10, 1980, Scott No. 1204.

- nethryk