Gambia
Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, Charles Darwin on stamps and postmarks of Gambia
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- Official stamps of Gambia related to Paleontology
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- Commemorative postmarks of Gambia related to Paleontology
- References
According to Michel catalogue, until middle of 1980th post of Gambia issued no more than 20 stamps per year. Later on till today amount of stamps issued every year is rapidly increased. In 1992, the year when first dinosaur stamps issued in the country, 160 stamps are printed out. The following year 353 (!) stamps. The poor country print their stamps with purpose to sale it to stamp collectors rather for real use for the post. Worth to mention, almost all stamp designs issued in last decades has nothing to with local history or culture. [R2]
| 21.09.1992 "Prehistoric animals" | 06.02.1995 "Prehistoric animals" | 23.06.1997 "Dinosaurs" |
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| 01.08.1999 "Prehistoric animals" | 01.08.2003 "Prehistoric animals" | 24.02.2010
"200 anniversary of Charles Darwin" |
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| 15.09.2014 "Dinosaurs" | ||
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| 12.02.1997 "Endangered Species" [A1] | 15.10.1998 "Ships" [A2] | |
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[A1] Latimeria chalumnae (stamp Nr. 11 on the sheet) among Endangered Species on stamps of Gambia 1997.
On 20 February 1939, the stunning announcement was made that a Coelacanth (Latimeria) had been caught off the Chalumna River mouth near East London (a city in RSA). At that time, the Coelacanth was thought to be extinct for nearly 70 million years. The drama commenced on 22 December 1938, when Capt H Goosen, skipper of the trawler Nenrine, brought ashore a peculiar metallic-blue, heavily-scaledfish with fins resembling legs. Miss Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Curator o the East London Museum, was informed of the strangie catch, but was unable to identify the fish, which measured 1,5 m in length and weighed 57 kg. "Searching for African Coelacanths" exhibit of Susan Bahnick Jones explain the story of the "leaving fossil" discovery.
[A2] HMS Beagle (stamp Nr. 5 on the sheet) among other ships on stamps of Gambia 1998. HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class. On the second voyage a young naturalist named Charles Darwin was on board; the pivotal role this round the world voyage played in forming his scientific theories made Beagle one of the most famous ships in history. Darwin had kept a diary of his experiences, and rewrote this as the book titled Journal and Remarks, published in 1839 as the third volume of the official account of the expedition. This travelogue and scientific journal was widely popular, and was reprinted many times with various titles, becoming known as The Voyage of the Beagle. This diary is where Darwin drew most of the ideas for his publications.Darwin attributes his first real training in natural history to his voyage on the Beagle. Motre info is on Wikipedia.
Commemorative post marks of Gambia related to Paleontology: dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals
| 21.09.1992 "Prehistoric animals" [FDC] [C1] | ||
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[DU] - exact Date of first introduction and/or last usage is unknown. Clarifications and comments are welcome
[FDC] - Post Marks used on FDC of official stamp
[PM] - Permanent postmark: available for a long period of time , some small design changes possible.
[Sp] - Special postmark: issued for special event and was available for short period of time
[N] - new design of early introduced postmarks
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[C1] - the only commemorative postmarl used on FDC with stamps of prehistoric animals. FDC of all other issues canceled with regular/date postmark. Example is here.
References:
[R1] More information about Gambia are on Wikipedia WikiTravel Flag Counter
[R2] More information about postal history of Gambia is on: Wikipedia
Links to Gambia post authority and stamps catalog websites are here
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