Czech Republic (Czechia) 1999 "Joachim Barrande and Czech Trilobites"

<prev

back to index

next>

Issue Date	23.06.1999
ID	Michel: 221-222; Scott: 3094a-3094b; Stanley Gibbons: 242; Yvert et Tellier: 216-217; Category: pP
Design	Graphic designer: Jan Kavan Engraver: Milo Ondrcek
Stamps in set	2
Values	13 CZK - the portrait of the French geologist and paleontologist J. Barrande (1799 - 1883) 31 CZK - different kinds of trilobites: Deiphon forbesi, Ophioceras simplex, Carolicrinus barrndei Top right tab: Eudolatites dubius, crinoid, Guerichina strangulata, Dendrograptus klouceki Bottom left tab: Placoparia barrandei, Pompeckium kuthami, Tropidodiscus pusillus
Emission/Type	commemorative
Places of issue	Prague
Size (width x height)	40mm x 26mm
Layout	Minis sheets of 2 stamps and 2 tabs
Products	FDC x2
Paper
Perforation	11.5 x 11.75
Print Technique	recess print from flat plate in yellow, blue, green, dark green and red
Printed by	Post Printing House
Quantity
Issuing Authority	Czech Post

Joachim Barrande (1799 - 1883), was a French geologist and palaeontologist, whose attention was attracted to the fossils from the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Bohemia (Czech Republic).
For ten years (1840-1850) he made a detailed study of these rocks, engaging workmen specially to collect fossils, and in this way he obtained upwards of 3500 species of graptolites, graptolites, brachiopods, molluscs, trilobites, and fish. He was a fervent advocate of the theory of the catastrophes (as taught by Georges Cuvier), thus opposing Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Barrande's book described more than 4,000 fossil species, and it continues to be used as a reference book today.

Products and associated philatelic items

FDC (clean and circulated)	Example of circulated covers
First-Day-of-Issue Postmarks

References

• Technical details: Colnect
• Joachim Barrande: Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Dr. Peter Voice, PhD Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Western Michigan University, USA, for his help in finding information and for review of a draft of this article.

<prev

back to index

next>