Little Nemo

Here is a nice Pugh Cachet for the Classic Comics issue (scott 3000c) Little Nemo in Slumberland. It features a dragonish looking sea serpent and what could be a Viking style dragon boat.

Basketball Playing Dragon From Slovenia

Here is a cute cover from Slovenia with a cartoon cachet featuring a dragon playing basketball. The stamp on the cover was issued to commemorate the 6th World Maxibasketball Championships held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2001.




Apparently the dragon is the emblem of the city of Ljubljana, and their basketball team's nickname is the green dragons. From Wikipedia:

The dragon is the emblem of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The city has a dragon bridge which is embellished with four dragon depictions. The city's basketball club is nicknamed the "Green Dragons". License plates on cars from the city also feature a dragon depiction.

Dragon cover from Japan

(Apologies for not posting. I had to replace the power supply & motherboard in my computer. My scanner is still not behaving...)

Here is a Japanese first day cover that features on one of the stamps (and the cachet) a "Blue Dragon on the east wall of the Takamatsu-zuka Tomb". These are semi-postal stamps issued to raise money for the preservation of the tomb.

Chinese & Indonesian Joint Issue (4)

Here is a nice cover that features all four stamps from both China & Indonesia:

Chinese & Indonesian Joint Issue (3)

This is a second official Chinese First Day Cover from the joint issue with Indonesia earlier this year.

Chinese & Indonesian Joint Issue (2)

This is a Chinese first day cover for the Chinese/Indonesian joint issue mentioned below. It is a bit hard to see in the scan, but it has a nice dragon pictorial postmark to go with the stamps & cachet.

Chinese & Indonesian Joint Issue

This year China & Indonesia had a two stamp joint issue, one stamp featuring the Dragon Dance, the other the Lion Dance. Here is a maxi card with the Chinese version of the Dragon Dance stamp.