Sunday Stamps - Cats: Argentina, Bangladesh, Hungary

 A 1959 stamp from Argentina featured a puma. Unfortunately the one in my collection was so heavily postmarked the puma could not be seen.

However thanks to the internet I have been able to find this image - 

Argentina - 1959

Somehow I don't think you would need to get the fire brigade to help it out of the tree.

A pair of stamps from Bangladesh show a magnificent tiger, but perhaps not in a colour that you would expect.

Bangladesh - 30 April 1973

There are a lot of stamps depicting domestic cats so I just had to include one even although I can't say that I am a cat lover.

Hungary - 30 March 1968

For other cats - big or small check out the links at Sunday Stamps - Cat

Sunday Stamps - Numbers: Argentina, Bangladesh

Most stamps have numbers to show their denomination even when it is 1st or 2nd. There are many countries with little more than numbers in their design. The plainest one I found was from Argentina.

Argentina - 15 March 1976

However the largest number I found which was not a denomination was this - 

Bangladesh - 20 December 1972

Issued for the Independence of 75 Million People and overprinted Bangladesh Liberated.

For more  stamps just visit Numbers and start with two countries in which I spent a lot of time.

Sunday Stamps - Flowers: Argentina, Australia

Some of the flowers in our garden seem more spectacular this year and I guess we all need a bit of cheering up. 

You can probably all recognise the Girasol from Argentina - 

Argentina - 17 June 1971

a sunflower to you and me.

Swainsonica formosa, named after English botanist Isaac Swainson, the state flower of South Australia is one of Australia's best known wild flowers,

Australia - 5 July 2005

Sturt's desert pea was found in 1699 by the English explorer William Dampier (1652-1715) in the dry sandy islands of Dampier's Archipelago, north-west Australia. The English botanist Allan Cunningham collected it in the same locality in 1818. Specimens from around that area were also collected by Benjamin Bynoe, the surgeon on the voyage of HMS Beagle.

I must say it is much more spectacular than the sweet peas in our garden which have yet to flower.

For more floral beauties just visit the links to be found at Sunday Stamps - alpine flowers

Sunday Stamps B4 - Argentina

When I was a boy a favourite book of mine was -

What has this to do with Argentina you might ask.

Well William's surname was Brown and two of my stamps showed an Argentine personality as Guillermo Brown - I suppose we might call him a celebrity today.

Argentina - 17 June 1971

Argentina - 28 October 1956 

Guillermo lived from 1777-1857; both these stamps appear in 'Pesonalities' series of stamps. He is regarded as the father of the Argentine Navy and he served also on British and American ships.

What I haven't told you was that he was Irish born - as William Brown.

I then discovered that the 100th anniversary of his death  was commemorated by stamps from Ireland.

Ireland - 23 September 1957 

For other 'B' stamps you should check out the links provided by others at Sunday-stamps-b starting with a large butterfly.

Winter sports - Sunday Stamps II

There's a Nordic slant to my stamps this week once you've been to winter sports at Bariloche in

Argentina - 17 June 1971

and to see a bobsleigh team for 

San Marino - 15 December 1955

at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

In Norway you could partake in ski sports at Hjemland

Norway - 15 Jan 1975

I don't remember seeing a skier dressed like that!

I only remember the football World Cup in 1966 so would not have been aware of the World Speed Skating Championships held in Gothenburg that year.

Sweden - 18 Feb 1966

I've managed to find four different winter sport disciplines so check out Sunday-Stamps-II-109. to enjoy others.

Arctic and Antarctica - Sunday Stamps

I struggled with this theme until I remembered a stamp I have shown before.

Argentina and its Antarctic Territory

When it came to the Arctic I was a bit miffed when I found Iceland is just below the Arctic Circle. Then I found that the island of Grimsey off its north-east coast lies partly in the Arctic. What's more there is a stamp showing the island.

Iceland - Grimsey

For other stamps associated with the polar regions please visit Viridian's Sunday-stamps-144.

South American ABC - Sunday Stamps

With South America as this week's theme I thought I should start with the alphabet.

'A' is for Argentina, and it so happens that this country has a stamp that shows the whole continent.

Argentina

The second largest country in South America, Argentina gained its independence in 1816 and issued its first stamps in 1858.

'B' is for Brazil, the largest country in the continent; independent in 1822 Brazil became a republic in 1889. The Amazon flows from its source in the Peruvian Andes 4000 miles through Brazil to the Atlantic.

Brazil

'C' is for Chile which lies between the Andes and the South Pacific. Chile's Juan Fernandez Islands are supposed to be where Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked.

Chile (my one and only stamp)

'E' is for Ecuador which became independent in 1822. Ecuador includes the Galapagos Islands so I'm pleased that I have a stamp of its fauna, a splendidly named bird on a 1977 stamp.

Ecuador

If like me you don't know Spanish, the bird is a Red-legged Boobie.

I  had only one stamp from other countries on the continent and so had to give Guyana (formerly British Guiana), Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela a miss and settle for the letter 'U'.

'U' is for Uruguay, the smallest of the South American republics which borders on the Atlantic; its first stamps were issued in 1856.

Uruguay

I understand that 'encomiendas' means 'parcels' 

For other stamps from down South America way you need to visit Viridian at Sunday Stamps 36