Share here your example of Pigs on postage stamps

drh · Post by **drh** » 22 Sep 2015 05:21

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Anyone got any good scans of examples of stamps featuring pigs?

PeterG · Post by **PeterG** » 22 Sep 2015 05:57

New Year Pigs from Hong Kong:-

peterh · Post by **peterh** » 22 Sep 2015 06:24

I'm not sure if these count, but here are the UK Post & Go stamps that featured pigs:

Jose Paulo · Post by **Jose Paulo** » 22 Sep 2015 06:39

Switzerland
Date: 5 September 2013

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Gjivo · Post by **Gjivo** » 23 Sep 2015 01:41

i like swiss pig stamp

tritrek · Post by **tritrek** » 23 Sep 2015 07:04

Bulgaria has one...

JKA · Post by **JKA** » 23 Sep 2015 07:12

I like this set.

JKA · Post by **JKA** » 23 Sep 2015 07:14

There are also a lot of "year of the pig" stamps, some real nice ones there.

mozzerb · Post by **mozzerb** » 23 Sep 2015 18:02

You could see if David Cameron has a collection ...

aethelwulf · Post by **aethelwulf** » 23 Sep 2015 18:36

There's a PRC set that I find morbidly interesting. From the 1960's I believe, part of their industrialization drive, the set shows the process of raising and processing swine. The sad face on the sow in front of an abbatoir...

I know I have the stamps somewhere at home.

Tassie_Stamps · Post by **Tassie_Stamps** » 23 Sep 2015 18:47

There is an Australian one from a few years ago. Will to try find a picture.

Tassie_Stamps · Post by **Tassie_Stamps** » 23 Sep 2015 18:50

Tassie_Stamps wrote:There is an Australian one from a few years ago. Will to try find a picture.

2005 Down on the Farm - MUH Mini Sheet

Tassie_Stamps · Post by **Tassie_Stamps** » 23 Sep 2015 18:54

Christmas Island 1995 Year of the Pig Mini Sheet

fromdownunder · Post by **fromdownunder** » 23 Sep 2015 20:17

aethelwulf wrote:There's a PRC set that I find morbidly interesting. From the 1960's I believe, part of their industrialization drive, the set shows the process of raising and processing swine. The sad face on the sow in front of an abbatoir... I know I have the stamps somewhere at home.

I don't have the whole set but here are the three of them that I own:

Global Admin · Post by **Global Admin** » 23 Sep 2015 20:31

USA has had a couple - they are are called HORRRRGS over there I think?

jjarmstrong47 · Post by **jjarmstrong47** » 23 Sep 2015 21:26

Well, we've had the sweet and cuddly but I wouldn't want to try to pat this one.

Wild Boar. Austria SG1340 Designed by Adalbert Pilch and engraved by Georg Wimmer

Australia also had a prize winning pig on a set which I think was for the royal Shows. Unfortunately I don't have one to show.

jjarmstrong47 · Post by **jjarmstrong47** » 23 Sep 2015 22:15

Here is another similarly mean looking individual.

North Borneo 1909 Wild Boar SG170 Scott 144

MargoZ · Post by **MargoZ** » 23 Sep 2015 22:27

Here are some new Australian ones just out in the past month.

Eli · Post by **Eli** » 24 Sep 2015 06:10

Here are several stamps, all depicting Chinese year of the pig, from Bhutan, Ukraine, Thailand, Hong Kong and North Korea:

In Laos, the Year of the Pig is called Pi Koun and it is celebrated during April 13-15, in the New Year Festival called Pi Mai. Here is a set issued on April 15, 2007 to celebrate the new year.

I have more pig stamps, mainly in Chinese and Greek mythologies as well as other pig stamps. Will post them later.

Canada stamper · Post by **Canada stamper** » 24 Sep 2015 06:39

Here is Canada's Lunar New Year Issue for 2007:

psestamp · Post by **psestamp** » 24 Sep 2015 06:57

Every country that wants to sell stamps to Chinese collectors has a YEAR OF THE PIG stamp.

It wouldn't surprise me in Islamic countries (sand dunes) have some just to bilk collectors.

Eli · Post by **Eli** » 25 Sep 2015 02:46

One of the main characters in the Chinese classical novel “Journey to the West - Adventures of Monkey King" is a pig. Many stamps showing this novel were issued mainly by Chinese countries. Here I picked several of them depicting the pig:

Three of the stamps in this set depicting the pig:

Here I scanned one stamp from the above set:

Stamps from PRC, Taiwan and Canada:

outremer · Post by **outremer** » 26 Sep 2015 04:03

From the 2005 GB Farm Animals set, showing the Saddleback breed:

outremer · Post by **outremer** » 26 Sep 2015 04:18

In 2010 GB issued a set for Europa - Children's Books, using Winnie the Pooh
by A.A. Milne and with illustrations by E.H. Shepherd, hence this one featuring
Piglet (and Pooh):

outremer · Post by **outremer** » 26 Sep 2015 04:27

From Zimbabwe, one of the first set of definitives issued after independence, a (slightly blurry) warthog:

dxdxdx · Post by **dxdxdx** » 11 Nov 2015 14:27

fromdownunder wrote:
aethelwulf wrote:There's a PRC set that I find morbidly interesting. From the 1960's I believe, part of their industrialization drive, the set shows the process of raising and processing swine. The sad face on the sow in front of an abbatoir... I know I have the stamps somewhere at home.
I don't have the whole set but here are the three of them that I own:

This is the full set

Scott# 518-22

jaywalker · Post by **jaywalker** » 11 Nov 2015 14:43

Pigs can fly...

(and hoping Traralgon is not checking the thread - I think he knows where I live

)

jaywalker · Post by **jaywalker** » 11 Nov 2015 15:19

...and another flying Pig

From https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/06/19/3784821.htm

F-111 'Pig' finds resting place in Darwin

By Clare Rawlinson

Darwin's Aviation Museum has become the resting place of one of the world's fastest combat aircraft - known as 'Pig'.

The retired F-111 was this week trucked up from Canberra in several parts and reassembled by Defence technicians at the Aviation Museum.

F-111 disposal manager Wing Commander Clive Wells said the plane was known as Pig for its long snout, and its ability to "get close and dirty".

"In all weather, night and day operations - it could get in there and hug the ground," he said.

"It was a pretty awesome aircraft to fly and flying it over twice the speed of sound as well."

One of around 35 F-111s, the plane was built for the US Airforce in 1969 and in 1972 it went to Vietnam.

"It served there until 1973 and within its first two months of operations in Vietnam it flew 44 combat missions - that's nearly a mission a day," Wing Commander Wells said.

"It returned to the US in 1979 and did a crash landing, and in 1982 it was resurrected, rebuilt and bought by Australia as one of four attrition aircraft."

A team of expert F-111 technicians worked to put the plane back together this week and today it is being moved under the hanger at the Aviation Museum.

President of the Aviation historical Society of the Northern Territory, Tony Simons, said it was a major attraction to add to the museum.

"Someone said to me when it turned up on Sunday that I looked like I had goose bumps on my arms, and you still do when you look at it - it's an absolute thrill," he said.

jjarmstrong47 · Post by **jjarmstrong47** » 12 Nov 2015 13:45

Back in the late sixties there was a song with the chorus:

Oh, the F-111 it is a lovely plane
It flies at twice the speed of sound
And scatters bombs like rain
Its wings go back and forwards
It's the latest thing around
What a pity that it isn't safe
To take it off the ground.

The song referred to the problems they had with cracks in the wing mechanism. The wings would be extended for normal speed but pulled back when going supersonic.

OK! Moving on. Here's one from Albania from a farm animal set.

Albanian pig.

mari · Post by **mari** » 13 Nov 2015 06:34

Owls, sheep and now pigs... I love these forums!

Here is a big family from Bulgaria, from 1955 (it was issued in a series of farm animals):

abutukit · Post by **abutukit** » 13 Nov 2015 09:42

Possibly the the first pig later to land on Australian soil (or on the officer's table for that matter)

mari · Post by **mari** » 15 Nov 2015 06:36

Here is another one that surely ended up on a plate. Based on the dress of the hunter, possibly even before the Australian one..

mari · Post by **mari** » 15 Nov 2015 06:38

And another fierce looking invidual, from Korea(?).

mari · Post by **mari** » 15 Nov 2015 06:53

These are also wild ones, not domestic (I think), because of their stripes. I have seen boars sometimes when hiking, and the babies always had stripes!

julesjelev · Post by **julesjelev** » 18 Nov 2015 06:22

There seem to be some pig revenue stamps too:

furballx · Post by **furballx** » 18 Nov 2015 13:11

I do not have an example but I would be very surprised if Samoa do not have pig stamps. The little fellas roam around the villages un-restrained until they become dinner. A very important part of the local diet.

Tassie_Stamps · Post by **Tassie_Stamps** » 18 Nov 2015 23:22

mari wrote:These are also wild ones, not domestic (I think), because of their stripes. I have seen boars sometimes when hiking, and the babies always had stripes!

Magyar posta wallpaper... Where is princestamps, he loves these issues.

mari · Post by **mari** » 20 Nov 2015 02:42

Here is one from the Pendjari animal reserve, Dahomey, 1969:

Jose Paulo · Post by **Jose Paulo** » 20 Nov 2015 02:57

Argentina
Date: 29 October 2011

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outremer · Post by **outremer** » 24 Nov 2015 03:45

On the left-hand stamp, Piglet - in the shadow of Pooh:

Jose Paulo · Post by **Jose Paulo** » 27 Nov 2015 00:39

Hungary
Date: 29 December 1979
Fairy Tale Scenes - "The Little Pigs and the Wolf"

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ernelopez · Post by **ernelopez** » 28 Nov 2015 01:03

Hi

Here are a couple of revenue items form Argentina. They are stamps intended to pay taxes for cattle transportation. You can read: "Animales vacunos, yeguarizos o porcinos" (Cows, horses or pigs).

Document from 1898 with stamps on it:

Some loose stamps from 1897:

Hope you like them!

Regards
Ernesto

mari · Post by **mari** » 28 Nov 2015 02:09

Mongolia issued this stamp of a piglet in 1982 as part of a set featuring young animals.

mari · Post by **mari** » 30 Nov 2015 01:27

A fierce looking pig, and an even fiercer looking human

From Togo, 1975

Eli · Post by **Eli** » 05 Dec 2015 20:58

Wild boar (Sus vittadus), issued by the Kingdom of Laos on September 7, 1970. Designed by Ky Phungchaleun and engraved by Roger Fenneteaux:

Philexx · Post by **Philexx** » 02 Sep 2016 21:46

Germany, Endangered Domesticated Animals of Germany, Issue: 01 Sept 2016, Minisheet

Shows the German Sattelschwein. The name comes from its colouration, black with a white saddle in the middle.

lesbootman · Post by **lesbootman** » 04 Nov 2020 08:35

Long time, no pigs. here are some:

: Fiji 2019 Chinese New Year : Scott #1408/1411

figmente · Post by **figmente** » 04 Nov 2020 13:49

: Bahamas Oct. 16,1981 World Food Day

Clapas · Post by **Clapas** » 04 Nov 2020 18:28

Pigs and wild boars below

turtle-bienhoa · Post by **turtle-bienhoa** » 04 Nov 2020 23:19

Two piggies from Vietnam: