A dip in the big blue Ocean: Fish, marine & sea life stamps

petercollects0 · Post by **petercollects0** » 05 May 2007 00:23

Some nice shells from Samoa...

crosscrescent · Post by **crosscrescent** » 05 May 2007 10:59

They sure are pretty.

crosscrescent · Post by **crosscrescent** » 14 May 2007 21:48

The King (crab) and the Queen (conch) met the urchins and some shells....what did they say?

bubble..bubble..bubble..bubble...say what???
Cheers

sh-tnoidavailable · Post by **sh-tnoidavailable** » 21 May 2007 00:44

Andrew

I thought I might post some on your 'Marine Life' thread as well, these are a little closer to your neck of the woods.
I love the colours on the FDC's.

Kimberley

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crosscrescent · Post by **crosscrescent** » 21 May 2007 01:23

Hey Kimberley,

These Cocos Keeling sea life covers are a riot of colour and that souvenir sheet is something that is really cheerful, vibrant and invigorating. Was very tempted to order one from the Australian Post Office when it was offered for sale but hesitated. But it is good to see a good scan of it here.

Cheers and Selamat Malam

crosscrescent · Post by **crosscrescent** » 23 May 2007 00:48

Fresh water fish

crosscrescent · Post by **crosscrescent** » 23 May 2007 01:20

crosscrescent · Post by **crosscrescent** » 23 May 2007 01:21

crosscrescent · Post by **crosscrescent** » 23 May 2007 01:22

sh-tnoidavailable · Post by **sh-tnoidavailable** » 23 May 2007 14:01

Andrew

Nice FDC, I found this one from cocos, it's a lot more sedate than most cocos FDC's, but I like the crabs.

Kimberley

kennywkt · Post by **kennywkt** » 28 May 2007 02:28

crosscrescent · Post by **crosscrescent** » 28 May 2007 13:08

Hi Kimberley,

I saw these in the SG 2004 catalogue and yes, they are nice-looking stamps. Keep those scans coming.

Cheers
Andrew

stamper · Post by **stamper** » 12 Jun 2007 21:08

New Zealand 1996 Sea life

wannabgeek · Post by **wannabgeek** » 12 Jun 2007 22:05

petercollects0 wrote:Some nice shells from Samoa...

I have these as well

petercollects0 · Post by **petercollects0** » 13 Jun 2007 21:41

wannabgeek wrote:

I have these as well

Must admit I love that set - the colours are so vivid that the shells seem seem to be 3D.

Here are a couple nice sets from PNG...

sh-tnoidavailable · Post by **sh-tnoidavailable** » 13 Jun 2007 22:39

SSSome SSSea SSSlugs......

crosscrescent · Post by **crosscrescent** » 14 Jun 2007 00:24

Hi Peter and Kim,

Those are nice sets. I think I may have these sets from a recent purchase. These sure are gorgeous stamps. The colours are so vivid.

Cheers
Andrew

sh-tnoidavailable · Post by **sh-tnoidavailable** » 14 Jun 2007 10:18

Thanks Andrew, yes they are quite colourful.
Here is a more sedate set from Oz...

petercollects0 · Post by **petercollects0** » 01 Jul 2007 11:11

That's a lovely set of whales

Here are some dolphins from Samoa:

petercollects0 · Post by **petercollects0** » 08 Jul 2007 11:36

Some nice Sharks from the Pitcairn Islands...

petercollects0 · Post by **petercollects0** » 11 Jul 2007 23:23

They also have sharks near Norfolk Island

petercollects0 · Post by **petercollects0** » 01 Aug 2007 22:48

Shells from Christmas Island

petercollects0 · Post by **petercollects0** » 25 Aug 2007 20:52

crosscrescent · Post by **crosscrescent** » 06 Sep 2007 01:19

Just got these today from a parcel that Glen sent. Nice gutter sets and nice cancellations.

Oops, sorry I got the $1 stamps upside down.

Cheers
Andrew

stamper · Post by **stamper** » 06 Sep 2007 10:30

Nice upside down $1 fish there crosscrescent.

Here is the 2001 Penguin issue from Ross Dependency.

Kai · Post by **Kai** » 06 Sep 2007 16:21

Here is the 2001 Penguin issue from New Zealand.

petercollects0 · Post by **petercollects0** » 07 Nov 2007 22:44

Some nice fish from the Pitcairn Islands:

crosscrescent · Post by **crosscrescent** » 08 Nov 2007 00:32

The middle one sure is exotic-looking (I mean to look at...not eat.)

iomoon · Post by **iomoon** » 08 Nov 2007 01:58

These could have gone into volcano thread but they probably look better here.

"Smokers" on the ocean floor with their associated biota.

BACK O BOURKE · Post by **BACK O BOURKE** » 08 Nov 2007 17:30

I like this one from TONGA

Ycrem · Post by **Ycrem** » 22 Dec 2007 05:02

petercollects0 · Post by **petercollects0** » 05 Mar 2008 20:17

A few nice fish from Ascension....

ronong · Post by **ronong** » 06 Mar 2008 00:12

1962 Singapore fishes

OttawaMike · Post by **OttawaMike** » 06 Mar 2008 06:53

Here's a trivia question for all you fishy philatelists: What was the first stamp to feature (a) a fish theme? and (b) the first fish of any kind (because I'll bet there's some 19th century issue with a coat of arms with a fish sybol somewhere)?

(I dunno the answers, but somebody on this board probably does!

jahayward · Post by **jahayward** » 01 May 2008 21:52

One of my favorites, the manatee.

tonymacg · Post by **tonymacg** » 16 May 2008 17:42

Since Mike raised the subject of fishy coats of arms, here is Bhopal

SG O308d

(Listed by Gibbons, but most likely printer's waste, alas)

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 03 Jan 2009 13:13

OttawaMike wrote:Here's a trivia question for all you fishy philatelists: What was the first stamp to feature (a) a fish theme? and (b) the first fish of any kind (because I'll bet there's some 19th century issue with a coat of arms with a fish sybol somewhere)?

(I dunno the answers, but somebody on this board probably does!

While supposedly concentrating on reducing images I noticed that this question had received almost no response.

I have not done any research but immediately thought of Newfoundland, a fishing community if ever there was one. So my nomination is the Newfoundland 2c green of 1866. Can anyone beat that

figmente · Post by **figmente** » 04 Jan 2009 06:30

I don't know of any featuring fish earlier than

Here's an earlier issue with marine life - a conch shell :

Newfoundland continued to show cod, seals, and salmon ---

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 04 Jan 2009 07:20

Well done - if I had even one of those in my collection I would be happy.

tonymacg · Post by **tonymacg** » 06 Jan 2009 23:30

Not to spread alarm and despondency among the collectors of shells on stamps, but ... Travancore featured a conch shell on all but a couple of its stamps, and used a conch as its watermark for good measure.

Sometimes it was the main feature of the design:

SG 6

and sometimes it was squeezed into a corner. Here it sits just above the Maharaja's head:

SG 60

Fortunately, a representative simplified collection would be cheap, if not that easy to put together.

Cochin also featured a conch on all but two of its sets (or one on a simplified basis). It wasn't quite as prominent as it was on Travancore stamps, but it was always there. Here is a larger specimen:

SG 9

and here is how it always appeared in later years, in the northeast corner above the Maharaja's portrait:

SG 26

And finally, Travancore-Cochin for the most part used overprinted stamps of Travancore and Cochin, which showed the conch. The one new issue for the combined state also featured the conch, both large and small:

SG 12-13

I have a few spare specimens to give away from all three states: email me if you're interested.

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 07 Jan 2009 07:22

Very nice - and the last couple aren't even 'ugly'

A geography lesson please. Where precisely are these two 'states' and why does the conch feature so well

tonymacg · Post by **tonymacg** » 07 Jan 2009 09:30

Kevin, those last two are - if you'll pardon the expression - the Ugly Ducklings of the Uglies. They were issued on the 24 October 1950 and so were also the last of the Uglies. When that Post Office closed down in 1951, the Uglies era ended

Travancore and Cochin, were on the Southwest tip of India; they form the great bulk of the modern Indian state of Kerala. As to the significance of the conch, this is what good ol' Wikipedia has to say:

"A Shankha shell (the shell of a Turbinella pyrum, a species in the gastropod family Turbinellidae) is often referred to in the West as a conch shell, or a chank shell. This shell is used as an important ritual object in Hinduism. The shell is used as a ceremonial trumpet, as part of religious practices, for example puja. The chank trumpet is sounded during worship at specific points, accompanied by ceremonial bells and singing.

In the story of Dhruva the divine conch plays a special part. The warriors of ancient India blew conch shells to announce battle, as is described in the beginning of the war of Kurukshetra, in the Mahabharata, the famous Hindu epic.

The god of Preservation, Vishnu, is said to hold a special conch, Panchajanya, that represents life, as it has come out of life-giving waters.

As it is an auspicious instrument,it is often played in a Lakshmi puja in temple or at home."

There will be religious and/or historical reasons why the ruling houses of Travancore and Cochin adopted the conch in particular as a symbol, but I don't know them - and Indian religion and history tend to be dangerous waters for the outsider to swim in, so I think I'd prefer to stay safely on the beach

figmente · Post by **figmente** » 07 Jan 2009 12:58

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Leggs · Post by **Leggs** » 25 Feb 2010 18:44

Here's a sheet I bought called Kelp Forest.

(front)

(back)

Legg's

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