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Are KiWis Birds? I can only recall eating them as "Fruits" Yes Gilles, they are birds. But by the time they get to you in the supermarket, they've taken the wings off. |
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Hi to all
The correct name of the "Kiwi Fruit" is the Chinese Gooseberry. We NZer's were smart, we started to mass grow them and export them even to China and renamed them "Kiwi Fruit"
Also Viewmasters are still available. You often see them in toy stores, but they are not as popular as they used to be.
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Iceland 1930 airmail Gyrfalcon  |
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| Edited by timbres667 - 12/19/2011 12:37 am |
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here's an endemic Aussie bird, Lyrebird, on a New South Wales State stamp from the 1888-1910 series issued for the Centenary of New South wales  |
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Same bird again, on a stamp which has become an Australian classic, the 1932 Lyre Bird one shilling definitive which was designed and engraved by F.D.Manly. There is a shade variation which is yellowish green and a perforation with OS.  |
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I'm not sure even an ornithologist could definitely identify the bird perching on the coat-of-arms of Kishangarh State in India, but ... you are probably right in saying it couldn't be identified. It's quite traditional to use an eagle on a Coat of Arms but the unclear image on the stamp does not look like an eagle. It appears to have a long neck and outstretched wings..one would need to research the history of that state to get more clues  Maybe it's the great Garuda? |
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Oldest stamp with a bird - Western Australia 1854 - Mute Swan. I will see if I can dig up a decent image.
Drew Although this 1d 1885-1912 stamp is red, its' really the endemic Western Australia Black Swan (Cygnus atratus)  The original black swan stamp was reproduced for the 1954 centenary of WA.  |
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Armenian crane 1922 the stance of this Armenian crane looks similar to the image on Tony's Kishangarh State stamp. So maybe...as the Demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo) is symbolically significant in the culture of North India and Pakistan, this is the mystery bird? Have you ever looked closely at the definitive stamp of the Demoiselle crane and noticed the three legs?   |
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My oldest stamp is from Bwalapur (I hope this is the correct spelling)  It is from 1945 which is the same year as my birth so I guess that makes us a couple of old birds!! It is a Great White Pelican (pelecanus onocratulus). It is a larger version of the pelican but not as large as the Australian Pelican (pelecanus conspiculatus).   |
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CJD - here a Iles Wallis et Futuna overprint 1920 Kagu bird (found today in a bulk parcel lot). MH  [/URL] |
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Wallis et Futuna overprint 1920 Kagu bird You were lucky to find that in the box.  Dig deeper you may find the double overprint  |
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Cook Islands 1893, listed in Scott as a Wrybill and other catalogs as a white tern.  |
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Akeela - No double overprint found unfortunately. I'm always hoping something unusual like that find has a high value, but I dont think its that valuable in monetary terms  |
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| Edited by Bas S Warwick - 01/23/2012 8:42 pm |
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Posted 12/16/2011 10:19 pm
