Let's Get To Know Mouse/Rat

Ulli Stein lets his mice do some amazing gymnastics. 145 cents for heavy letters and 55 cents for sports projects.

The city of Myshkin (can be translated as Mouseville) in the Yaroslavl region has a city museum.


http://en.myshgorod.com

Another of Ulli Stein's mice, this fellow lining up for a sprint. 58 cents used to be for a normal national letter in 2013, it is now 80 cents!

Hi Alexey, your mouse has taken a few bits of the cheese? K.

One of Ulli Stein's mice even got a gold medal!

This week's Mouse riddle for all fans of mice and rats. Where did this little one live?

Ignatz Mouse throwing a brick at Krazy Kat's head
(from a set of 20 stamps with comics heroes)

And another of Ulli Stein's mice won a trophy! (The riddle was solved very quickly - I knew Alexey would do it!)

The story of Ignatz and his friends goes way back to about 100 years ago when George Herriman (1880-1944) created the comic:

On a postal stationery card,with a different value.

A real brown rat looking good on a stamp of Jersey, 2007. (Rattus norvegicus) This species has spread over the whole world because it can adapt so well to different environments, but then again cities anywhere do have similar niches for them to live.

Year of the Rat 2020 (ATM labels from Taiwan)

A happy rat enjoying some delicious French grapes, this one for the year 2008.

Ryu-Kyu Islands (1971)
Rat and chrysanthemum (textile design)

Another Jersey mouse, this one the long-tailed field mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus).

(Where is mouse friend Idebee?)

Here is "cat looking at mouse" label on stamp (S.G. #1107) from Singapore's July 26, 2001 Singpex '01 National Stamp Exhibition pane of 10. The "cat looking at mouse" is actually a separate, self-adhesive label which customer had to affix to front of stamp. Ten pet labels (dog, fish, turtle, mouse, etc.) came with blank postage stamps.

Under the label it says, Affix your favorite pets sticker here."