Canada
2014
"100th anniversary of the Royal Ontario Museum"
Issue Date |
14.04.2014 |
ID |
Michel:
Stanley Gibbons: UPU:
Category: pR |
Author |
Gerald
Querubin, Entro Communications/Gottschalk+Ash, Toronto. Photographs
were taken by ROM photographer Brian
Boyle and the photo of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal was
taken by Tom Arban Photography Inc. |
Stamps in set |
2 |
Value |
P - Archeologic and natural
history artifacts
P - Chinese statue and Parasaurolophus
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Size (width x height) |
32 mm x 40 mm, mini-sheet 122 mm x 70 mm
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Layout |
10 stamps in a booklet, mini sheet of 2 stamps |
Products
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FDC x 1 MS x1 Booklet x1 PC x3 |
Paper |
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Perforation |
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Print Technique |
lithography in five colours |
Printed by |
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Quantity |
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Issuing Authority |
Canada Post
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The Royal Ontario Museum
(ROM) is a museum of world culture and natural
history based in Toronto, Ontario. It is one of the largest museums in
North America, attracting over one million visitors every
year.
Established on April 16, 1912 and opened on March 19th, 1914, the
museum has maintained close relations with the University of Toronto
throughout its history, often sharing expertise and resources. The
museum was under the direct control and management of the University of
Toronto until 1968. It then became an independent institution. Today,
the museum is Canada's largest field-research institution, with
research and conservation activities that span the globe.
With more than six million items and forty galleries, the museum's
diverse collections of world culture and natural history are part of
the reason for its international reputation. The museum contains
notable collections
of dinosaurs,minerals and meteorites, Near Eastern and
African art, Art of East Asia, European history, and Canadian history.
It also houses the world's largest collection of fossils from the
Burgess Shale with more than 150,000 specimens.
On 14th April Canada's Post
officially
launched a
booklet and souvenir sheet showcasing notable
museum artifacts. The stamps feature carefully curated
photographs of five of the ROM‘s most notable objects including Shiva
Natajara Sculpture, Mummified Cat dating back to 332-30
BCE, Parasaurolophus Skeleton, Luohan Chinese
Sculpture from 11th-century and the Bison. The artefacts
represent the vastness of the
ROM’s encyclopedic collection while the ROM’s Michael Lee-Chin Crystal
featured on the stamp booklet cover and the background of the stamp
represents the ROM’s continuing research and visionary future.

On
April 15, Canada Post
President and CEO Deepak Chopra joined Janet Carding, Director and CEO,
Royal Ontario Museum, under the Rotunda at “the ROM” to unveil a new
stamp issue celebrating the museum’s 100th anniversary.
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“For a century, the ROM has inspired learning for audiences around the
world,” says the Honourable Lisa Raitt, Minister of Transport and
responsible for Canada Post. “This anniversary is the perfect
opportunity to proudly pay tribute to these significant artefacts, and
the renowned Museum they call home.”
“Over the past 100 years, the ROM has become a globally respected
display of world cultures and natural history,” says Deepak Chopra,
Canada Post President and CEO. “Canada Post is pleased to join the
ROM’s celebrations with this pair of stamps that showcase its vast
diversity.”
“The ROM”s year-long festival of Centennial celebrations highlight the
many ways that the Museum connects visitors to their world and to each
other,” says Janet Carding, Director and CEO, ROM. “The artefacts
depicting on the Canada Post stamps and Royal Canadian Mint coin are
some of our most iconic, and we’re delighted that they can now be
shared and celebrated worldwide with these one-of-a-kind commemorative
pieces.”
The Royal Canadian Mint also celebrates with a selectively gold-plated
$20 fine silver coin designed by Mint engravers. This coin features a
gold-plated image of one of the museum’s earliest acquisitions, the
statue of Cleopatra VII, set against a rendering of the dramatic
Michael Lee-Chin-designed wing of the museum famously known as The
Crystal.
The
Natural history galleries are all gathered on the second
floor of the museum. The gallery contains collections and
samples of
various animals such as bats, birds, and
dinosaur bones and skeletons.
Specimens represent life during the Jurassic and Cretaceous
periods,
grouped within the themes: Life on Land, Life on Sea, and Life in the
Air. You'll see all of your favourites, including
Tyrannosaurus
rex,
Stegosaurus, and
Triceratops.
Stand in the shadow of
mighty T. rex… or underneath Gordo, the enormous Barosaurus…
or beside our famous hadrosaur Parasaurolophus.
No matter what the first stop on your dinosaur journey will be, you'll
enter a gallery showcasing one of the world's best collections.
Hundreds of specimens
welcome you to a gallery bursting with iconic and unusual dinosaurs,
fossilized plants, insects and marine life. At the time dinosaurs
lived, they shared the planet with other life on land, in the sea and
in the air. Trace the development, relationships and legacy of all
creatures that lived during the Age of Dinosaurs.
One of the dinosaurs exhibited in the ROM is incomplete, like
most dinosaurs in the world,
Parasaurolophus
walkeri specimen.
Parasaurolophus
is a genus of
ornithopod dinosaur that lived in what is now North America during the
Late Cretaceous Period, about 76.5–73 million years ago. It was a
herbivore that
walked both as a biped and a quadruped.
Remains are known from Alberta (Canada), and New Mexico and Utah (USA).
The genus was first described in 1922 by William Parks from a skull and
partial skeleton found in Alberta.
Parasaurolophus meaning "near crested
lizard", is derived from the Greek para/παρα
"beside" or "near", saurus/σαυρος "lizard" and lophos/λοφος
"crest". It is based on ROM 768, a skull and partial skeleton
missing most of the tail and the hind legs below the knees, which was
found by a field party from the University of Toronto in 1920 near Sand
Creek along the Red Deer River in Alberta, Canada. These rocks are
now known as the Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Park
Formation. William Parks named the specimen P. walkeri in honor of Sir
Byron Edmund Walker, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Royal
Ontario Museum. Parasaurolophus remains are rare in Alberta,
with only one other partial skull from (probably) the Dinosaur Park
Formation, and three Dinosaur Park specimens lacking skulls,
possibly belonging to the genus. In some faunal lists, there is a
mention of possible Parasaurolophus walkeri material in the
Hell Creek Formation of
Montana, a rock unit of late Maastrichtian age. This occurrence
is not noted by Sullivan and Williamson in their 1999 review of the
genus, and has not been further elaborated upon elsewhere.
Another
galery with some fossils of prehistoric animals of the museum is
The
Reed Gallery of the Age of Mammals explores the rise of
mammals through the Cenozoic Era that followed the extinction of the
dinosaurs. There are over 400 specimens from North America and South
America on display. Also included in the gallery are, 30 fossil
skeletons of extinct mammals, over 160 non-mammalian specimens, and
hundreds of fossil plants, insects, fish, and turtles. The gallery's
entrance begins with mammals that arose shortly after the extinction of
the dinosaurs. A highlight of this gallery is the sabre-toothed
nimravid Dinictis.
Products
FDC |
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Used covers and post card |
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Booklet of self adhesive stamps
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Front and back
sides of the booklet)
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Post Cards (
Clean
back-side
&
back-side
of circulated cards
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References:
The Royal Ontario Museum
Canada Post
NewsCanada
Plus
Wikipedia
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