The United States of America (USA)
Paleontology related stamps (dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossils, Thomas Jefferson "the further of American paleontology" etc.)
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USA as well as Canada is a country with many fossil found places. Many dinosaur bones are found there.
The first stamp issue of the U.S. was offered for sale on July 1, 1847, in New York City, with Boston receiving stamps the following day and other cities thereafter. They consisted of an engraved 5-cent red brown stamp depicting Benjamin Franklin (the first postmaster of the U.S.), and a 10-cent value in black with George Washington. Like all U.S. stamps until 1857, they were imperforate. On July 1st 1851 USA issued a set of 6 stamps with portraits of Bejamin Frankling, Georg Washington and Thomas Jefferson. [1]
More information about
postal history of USA is on Wikipedia
FDC
is a typical product of USPS (Post Authority of USA), but distinguished
from other countries , official FDC doesn''t have any
illustration/cachet on it. It is just a regular, often white, cover
with a stamp or set of stamps, canceled by first day
postmark. Fist day postmark, often, is a combination of regular, round postmark with the day of the stamp(s) issue and another postmark attached to it on the right side with "FIRST DAY OF ISSUE" text in between one or two horizontal lines (see example on the right side).
Typically, there are many personalized or privately produced FDC available on the market for almost every US stamp. Distinguished from official with some attractive images on it.
Some articles about American stamps, covers, postcards and other philatelic objects related to Paleontology
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Click on year number to see all Paleontology and Paleoanthropology related stamps issued in the year.
| 1851 "Thomas Jefferson" part of definitive set [1] | 1857 "Thomas Jefferson" part of definitive set [1] | 1861 "Thomas Jefferson" part of definitive se t[1] |
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| 13.03.1870 "Presidents" (part of definitive set )[1] | 22.02.1890 "Presidents and other famous personalities" [1] (part of definitive set) | |
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| 13.03.1894 Presidents and other famous personalities" [1] (part of definitive set) | 1903 [1] part of definitive set Presidents and other famous personalities" [1] (part of definitive set) | 12.04.1904 "Lousiana Exhibit", part of set of five stamps |
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| 1926 "Personalities and Landscapes" part of definitive set[1] | 1938 "Presidents of USA" part of big definitive set (1938-1954)[1] | 10.08.1946 "100 anniversary of Smithsonian Institution" [2] |
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| 03.04.1954 "Famous Americans" [1] part of definitive set | 15.01.1955 "150th Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts" [3] | 12.01.1968 "Famous Americans" [1] |
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| 06.05.1970 "100 anniversary of Natural History Museum of New York" | 13.06.1974 "Mineral Heritage" | 09.10.1980 "American Architecture" [2] |
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| 29.04.1982 " Knoxville World’s Fair"[2] | 01.10.1989 "Prehistoric animals" | 13.04.1993 "American Personalities"[1] |
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| 07.02.1996 "Smithsonian Institute" | 08.06.1996 "Prehistoric animals" | 01.05.1997 "The World of Dinosaurs" |
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[1] Thomas Jefferson is rightfully renowned as the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, the Third President of the United States, and a champion of Liberty. But he was also a central player in the beginnings of American paleontology. In addition, his participation occurred at a time when people were struggling with the ideas of fossils as evidence of past life, of extinction, and of an Earth far older than the Biblical account.
Some of the fruits of Jefferson's paleontology became part of the collections at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Beginning in 1849 these holdings were transferred over to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, where they are currently housed.
[2] Smithsonian Institution has very large Paleobiology Department. The building of the Institution depicted on several stamps:
- 1946 single stamp dedicated to 100 anniversary of Smithsonian Institution
- 1980 part of set of 4 stamps of "American Architecture", shows famous American buildings. Smithsonian Institution is on the first stamp in the first row
- 1996 single stamp dedicated to 150 anniversary of Smithsonian Institution
Another stamps to consider
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Notes:
[A1] Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore, a granite batholith formation in the Black Hills in Keystone, South Dakota, United States. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865).
[A2] The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., dedicated to Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
[A3] The dinosaur stamp on the sheet show Tyrannosaurus figure from Jurassic Park film.
[A4] Some fossils are depicted on an Aloha tshirt on the middle stamp of the stripe
[A5] The stamp image is a photograph by Richard McGuire of the interior of the caverns. High ancient sea ledges, deep rocky canyons, flowering cacti and desert wildlife are all treasures above and below the Chihuahuan Desert ground. Carlsbad Cavern is one of more than 300 limestone caves in a fossil reef laid down by an inland sea 240 million to 280 million years ago.
The rocks and fossils of Carlsbad Caverns National Park tell a story of the area during the Permian Period (286 – 230 million years before present) when the landscape was dramatically different from what we see today. Carlsbad Caverns National Park contains some of the world’s best examples of marine fossils from the Permian period of earth’s history. The Permian period of geologic history began without a great deal of environmental change from the preceding Carboniferous period. The Carboniferous/Permian rock boundary is marked only by the appearance in the fossil record of a new genus of single - celled fusulinids and a new plant genus. In general, the land and marine life from the late Carboniferous to the early Permian periods were quite similar. However, by the end of the Permian period, the earth had experienced monumental changes in its geography, climate, and terrestrial and ocean life. More info is here.
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