my name is Michael, philatelist from Germany, who just joined StampoRama.
I do collect Paleontology topic: dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals and plants, fossils, fossil found places, natural history museums, paleontologists, contributors to Paleontology science, Charles Darwin for example.
I also run a website: http://www.paleophilatelie.eu and facebook group "Paleophilately": https://www.facebook.com/groups/889825297731726/
Like to stay in contact with other collectors who share the same interest and swap some stamps and covers.
Interesting site, looks well worth an exploration. My dearly beloved said maybe she could donate me as I'm an old dinosaur.
Welcome from Lake Agassiz, Manitoba, (well Franklin, Manitoba anyway).
Welcome Michael, looking forward to more of your posts. I do not collect Paleontology or United States stamps...but i was fortunate to live in the same area as James Gurney who designed this set of stamps and got this artist signed cover ! phil
An Inverloch postmark! Not sure about dinosaur history there. Maybe a little further along at Wilson's Promonotory which supposedly connected the mainland to Tasmania back in the day one can find evidence of the early aboriginals.
there are many Paleontology related stuff issued in your country:
http://www.paleophilatelie.eu/country/australia.html
I miss quite some of it. Nice covers addressed to me with postmarks of Hughenden and Charles Darwin for example:
http://www.paleophilatelie.eu/country/australia.html#pm
Hughenden! Goodness i havent been there in ages. I worked at the only pub there as a barman many moons ago but was fired when all the cockies and and the hands came in one Friday night, ordered a bunch of beers then refused to pay as Im just a little bloke.
Those are your real dinosaurs Paleo!
Mate I am a newby to stamp collecting but if there is something you would like help with I would be happy to do my best.
I absolutely love the website! Who among us was not absolutely fascinated by pictures and models of the brontosaurus and teradactyls when we were kids?
Just an observation though. Why would you include stamps with Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe? Wouldn't it be better to break up the set and just use the single that fit the topic?
Not criticisizing at all. I think you've got a fascinating, award winning site. I was just curious about your reasoning there. Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed browsing.
thank you for the good worlds about my site. I work on it almost daily since 7 years but it is still far away to be complete.
I show full set of stamps, even though only one or few are relevant to the topic, to allow to everyone decide by himself how to purchase it. Personally I prefer to buy full set. Make some exceptions for expensive stamps.
Usually, it is even easier to find a full set then a piece of it.
Last but least, one day I'll stop collect and I'm not sure if anyone of family will interested to continue. In case I decide to sale my collection it will be easier to sale full sets.
re the Australian minisheet cancellation (above): I expect that Inverloch was chosen as the National postmark because Australia's first dinosaur bone was discovered near Inverloch in 1903. Also 2 of the dinosaurs (Serendipaceratops and Qantassaurus) and the amphibian (Koolasuchus) on the stamps were found along the Bass Coast of southeastern Victoria.
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