Sunday Stamps II - New Year

I have no stamps that celebrate the lunar New Year. However Maria sent me a stamp last year for the Rooster - 

I then discovered this mini-sheet from the USA - 

USA 29 January 2006

And tucked away in the centre of the bottom row is a stamp for the Year of the Dog,

Until I unearthed that I thought I would just have to show - 

Oscar in 2017 waiting for his first New Year in my daughter's home.

For more New Year Dogs carry your lead across to Sunday-Stamps-II -165.

Farm Animals - Sunday Stamps II

The small farm in the village where I was born was noted for its ...

Rooster

and its early morning calls.

This stamp is one of a set of eight from Poland showing:

Cows

Horses

The three stamps that I do not have depicted geese, pigs and sheep.

On the same day that I found them I also acquired a first day of issue of British Cattle - magnificent beasts.

Great Britain - British Castle

The stamps are on what appears to be a card (nothing on the back). I wish it had been intact in view of the cow's horn at the bottom left.

The beast are:

• 16p Highland Cow
• 20.1/2p Chillingham White Bull
• 26p Hereford Bull
• 28p Welsh Black Bull
• 31p Irish Moiled Cow

I had not heard of the Irish breed before. The name Moiled is derived from the Gaelic "Maol" and refers to the fact that they have no horns.

I continue to learn from participating in Violet's Sunday-Stamps-II - No. 46, this week.