Stamps Portraying Paleontology

Very nice images !

Museums of Indonesia, 2004
These stamps shows some exponats from various museums of Indonesia. One of them is the Bandung Geology museum.

The Bandung Geology museum is the biggest and most complete museum in Indonesia of its kind. This Museum is founded on 16 May 1928 as a geological center, by the Dutch. Renovated with relief fund of JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency). The museum is divided into three exhibitions, Geology of Indonesia in the West wing, History of life in the East wing and Geology for human life on the top floor.

Got it directly from Indonesia, with MS above inside

Ukraine 2012

Spain 2012

Russia 2012

Here is an image of a stamp depicting the skull of an early hominid, Tchadanthropus uxoris (now considered a specimen of Homo erectus) of an estimated age of a million years, discovered in 1965 by French paleontologist Yves Coppens (1934- ) in Yaho (Angamma, Chad), designed and engraved by Michel Monvoisin, and issued by Chad on September 20, 1966 to commemorate the skull's discovery, Scott No. 133.

- nethryk

nice cover from Russia with stamp of Mammoth



Some info about these stamps: http://www paleophilatelie eu/description/stamps/russia_2012.html

Covers with stamps of Kazakhstan 1994. Three first covers sent in 1994 or 1995 from Kazakhstan to Turkmenistan:


This cover I got just recently: from Kazakhstan to Germany

Four extinct animals that could be find fossils in a so geologically unstable country like Chile.

Fine used cover of Switzerland from 1959. The stamp depict fossil salamander.

Stamp set:


The stamp:


depict fossil of Cryptobranchus japonicus designed by Stoecklin Niklaus1896-1982. Stamp face value is 0.40 + 0.10 CHF when 0.10 is donation to ProPatia.
Pro Patria, officially Stiftung PRO PATRIA Schweizerische Bundesfeierspende, is a Swiss patriotic and charitable organization. Its purpose is to give meaning to the Swiss national holiday, August 1, by collecting donations to the benefit of social and cultural works of national public interest.

We are fortunate here in the Hudson Valley only 2 hours from New York City..many famous artists,actors etc: make their homes here..this is a signed cover by James Gurney of Dinotopia fame.

nice cover, thanks for sharing with us

Germany 2006 "150 years of descovery of Neandertaler"

Register letter cancelled on Fossils and Minerals Exhibition in Munich.


1856 was found in the Neander Valley near Dsseldorf remains of the skull and other skeletal parts of a Urmenschenart, which was then named after the place "Neanderthal". The news was a worldwide sensation. The comparison with other finds of similar fossils showed that the Neanderthals about 130,000 years ago from lived until about 30,000 years ago. But they were not direct ancestors of modern man (Homo sapiens), but a parallel, independent of men. Her body was built stronger than that of modern humans. Neanderthals lived in communities and used tools and hunting weapons. Why they became extinct, is still not known.

I like to know which county is going to issue Paleontology related stamps and covers next year.
So far I'm aware about:
Great Britain 10 October – Dinosaurs
Noth Korea 10 November - Fossils

Do you know any more ?