More Stamps In Cardiology

Pallas’s cat (Manul) Tajikistan, 1996

two 1966 Australian stamps from a series on sea life

[id: two postage stamps, both with vivid illustrations of fish. the left depicts a clown fish resting on an anemone while the right depicts a black and white striped fish - labelled ‘humbug fish’ - against a background of red coral. end id]

Blood donation and organ transplant themed postage stamps from all around the world

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three 1992 Finnish stamps featuring illustrations from Tove Jansson’s popular Moomin series

two 2001 Latvian stamps released to celebrate Christmas

holy mole-y!

mole cricket stamp design on a card for tane (for mother’s day)

Chinese stamps commemorating the 1964 animated movie, “Havoc in Heaven,” based on the misbehaving, mouthy Monkey King making trouble in the orderly world of the Celestials. 

It’s a commemoration of the historic era (between 1950-1966) when Shanghai was one of the animation capitals of the world, when the Wan Brothers and others worked with the Shanghai Arts and Film Studio….but before the beginning of the cultural revolution in the late 1960s, when many Chinese animators returned to the countryside as farmers or workers. Prior to 1966, the Chinese animation world was far more technical and developed than the equivalent industry in Japan at the same time, but after the cultural revolution in ‘67, China never really recovered from that lost decade, and Shanghai was never really the cultural center of animation in Asia again, despite some extraordinary efforts (usually in Shanghai by people trained by the Wan Brothers). 

| Two Somali stamps from 1986.