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Many stamps also feature butterflies. [2] Insects only started to appear on stamps much later than other larger and more attractive animals. The first postal stamp featuring a beetle was released in 1948 in Chile as a tribute to natural historian Claudio Gay. Since then, insects have become popular subjects in philately.
This is a list of butterflies on Australian postage stamps. Australia Post has issued several stamp series featuring Australian butterflies: 1981 (10 stamps); 1991 and 1997 (1 stamp only in each series); 1998 (5 stamps); 2003 (2 stamps, plus a moth caterpillar stamp); and 2004 (4 stamps, but 2 species on $2 stamp).
The main components of a stamp: 1. Image 2. Perforations 3. Denomination 4. Country name. A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail).
This is a list of British postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail postal service of the United Kingdom, normally referred to in philatelic circles as Great Britain. This list should be consistent with printed publications, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and cite sources of any deviation (e.g., magazine issue listing newly found variations).
The Oregon swallowtail ( Papilio machaon oregonius, sometimes classified as Papilio oregonius or Papilio bairdii oregonius[ 1]) is a subspecies of swallowtail butterfly native to the United States of America, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and south-central British Columbia in Canada. [ 2] In 1976, it became one of the first four butterflies ...
As the template mentions, stamp images in this category may only be used in accordance with the Wikipedia:Fair use criteria.. In some cases, the issuance of a stamp is itself notable, and the stamp may be allowable in the article (for instance, if the issuance of the stamp was an overtly political act, with the design chosen for political purposes).
Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is an area of philately, which is the study (or combined study and collection) of stamps. It has been one of the world's most popular hobbies since the late nineteenth century with the rapid growth of the postal service, [ 1] as a stream of new stamps was produced by ...
S. Stamp images published abroad that are in the public domain in the United States (15 F) Categories: Postage stamps. Business images. Commons category link from Wikidata.