The theme for
Sunday Stamps this week is
Pets. I have been looking among my received stamps and I have realised I don't have a lot of stamps featuring pets. Unless I consider tigers, frogs or teddy bears as pets... Having no pets myself, maybe I lack of this kind of imagination. So I will show you the most traditional pets: dogs and cats.
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From Taiwan |
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From the USA |
I find these stamps from Taiwan and the USA are quite similar in design. The following ones from the Netherlands are a completely different concept. By the way, three of my favourite stamps by Dutch illustrators
Dick Bruna,
Fiep Westendorp and
Charles Burki.
By the way, have you checked this new website called
Petpals? It can be interesting for mail & pets lovers...
Some lovely designs alongside more traditional images.
ReplyDeleteDogs seem to be featured a lot this week; the two from Taiwan are new to me.
ReplyDeleteLove that yellow one from Netherlands and the one for Christmas. Really nice pet stamps we have this week! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments!
ReplyDeletegreat various selection - i am amused with the miffy one, a rabbit having a dog as a pet ;)
ReplyDeleteI thought the same!
DeleteOh, I love those Miffy and Jip &Janneke stamps! They're both awesome.
ReplyDeleteIn the Netherlands they have the most amazing stamps (and also in Finland!).
DeleteWe are not familiar with Miffy here in the USA. Cute though! The taiwan stamps are nice tool Thank you for joining in.
ReplyDeleteReally? I thought Miffy was famous in the whole world!
DeleteNever realized there were so many pets on stamps.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's incredible! :)
DeleteThose dogs on the Chinese stamps are adorable! And I absolutely love that last Dutch one! I can just sense the dog's happiness and his yap-yap-yapping at the postman! Love it!!!
ReplyDeletebtw, just now at this other blog, I read how you saw an Escher's exhibition in Granada...in 2011! Couldnt believe the coincidence! I was there too...it was in one of those rooms, where they also had a video running related to his works...that is where I discovered Escher, and loved his work ever since! It is so funny how small this world is! :D
sending you regards from Macedonia!
btw, if you need a Macedonian card, just drop me a line ;-)
Some amazingly cute Dutch stamps. When I was in Antwerp they had a whole alphabet of Dick Bruna postcards in the printing museum. Postcard heaven.
ReplyDeleteI do believe it's postcard heaven!
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