Friday, February 29, 2008

US Year of the Dragon (2000) (2)

Here's an interesting US First Day Cover from the year 2000, by an unknown cachet maker. It includes an older Chinese stamp along with the Year of the Dragon issue.


Monday, February 18, 2008

Albanian Dragon Cover

Europe has it own tradition of dragons in myth and folklore, going beyond just St. George & the Dragon. Here is an FDC from Albania, part of the Europa 1997 issue focusing on folklore.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Tuvalu

This is a first day cover from Tuvalu, with a souvenir sheet for the Chinese Year of the Rat issued i n 1996. It features a dragon cachet from Hongpex 96, a philatelic exhibition. It also has a hard to see (and all but impossible to see in the scan) dragon cancellation.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

US Year of the Dragon (2000)

Here is another first day cover for the 2000 United States Year of the Dragon stamp. This one is by Jet Boy cachets, who issued several different designs for this stamp. Apologies for the scan - for some reason the detail didn't come out well.