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Indonesia National Museums February 29, 2004 Set of four, one stamp depicts the skeleton of a prehistoric animal in the Museum of Geology at Bandung.  |
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Not a stamp, but rather a cancel. Per Bruce Baryla, from his award-winning "Civil War Sun Tax" exhibit: This 'Skull and Bones' handstamp was known to collectors of fancy handstamps by its appearance as a 'sender's mark' on covers mailed in 1857 by the 'Society of Twenty-Two,' a Yale University based fraternal group associated with the famous Skull and Bones Society.
This same handstamp was used years later as a stamp canceling device. As it turns out, the secretary of the 'Society of Twenty-Two' in 1857 was Robert A. Beckwith. He became a photographer and co-owner of the Whitney & Beckwith studio - and he repurposed the handstamp from his college days to cancel revenue stamps.My example:  |
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I found more this skeleton stamp, now from Marshall Islands:  |
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| Edited by Gnobre - 11/09/2017 08:51 am |
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Bedrock Of The Community
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Argentina Bicentenary of the Argentine Natural Sciences Museum April 28, 2012 Set of four, one stamp depicts the fossilized skeleton of a titanosaurian dinosaur Bonatitan reigi.  |
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Spain Museums 2018 March 26, 2018 Set of three; the Cantabrian Maritime Museum stamp shows whale skeletons.  |
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Great Britain Leonardo da Vinci February 13 2019 The stamp set marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). The sketches from the Royal Collection includes a skull sectioned and the human skeleton.  |
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Bhutan 1986 Halley's Comet 6v. Examining my Halley's stamps I found this one , depicting the 4 apocalypse horsemen, described in the Holy Bible, in the chapter of Revelations .   |
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| Edited by Rigel - 03/23/2019 3:25 pm |
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Posted 10/16/2017 1:09 pm
