Sunday Stamps 009: Prehistoric animals/dinosaurs on Cambodian stamps

 

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I was really surprised to find these at the Post Office. This is something you don’t expect to be issued in Cambodia. Anyways, this is a set of five definitive stamps under the theme prehistoric animals/dinosaurs and was issued in January 2000. It also included a souvenir sheet. From top to bottom, clockwise: diplodocus, stegosaurus, and euplocephalus.

Prehistoric animals dinosaurs on Cambodian cover 

I sent this cover to a guy in Slovakia who is into prehistoric animals. Another one is going out to a friend in Canada :) Sadly, when I came back to the philately department of the post office, I was told that they don’t have anymore stocks of these stamps.

7 comments:

Sheila @ A Postcard a Day said...

I must admit, not what you'd associate with Cambodia!

Sreisaat said...

Hi Sheila, you are right! I thought so, too.

Postcardy said...

I must admit that I don't know whether dinosaurs ever lived in Cambodia, but I imagine the stamps were popular with collectors.

viridian said...

that's pretty interesting! Yhanks for participating.

Bob Scotney said...

The inclusion of the skeletons makes these stamps so much more effective.

PaleoPhilatelist said...

Nice story. However since 1965 when the first stamp depicted dinosaurs issued by San Marino and Poland, almost every country around the world issues some stamps related to dinosaurs.
Some overview of such stamps: http://www.paleophilatelie.eu/stamps_overview.html

John Tossot said...

Nice post i rate it. Most of these animal's information can be found on Prehistoric animals

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