There has never been a more popular time for dinosaurs and all
things dinosaurian. From blockbuster films packed with breathtaking
CGI effects, children's television and video cartoons, computer
games, CD-ROMs, animatronic museum exhibitions, and theme parks, to
countless books, magazines, toys large and small, ornaments,
collectabilia, and even fun lines in confectionery and other
edibles, prehistoric paraphernalia continues to scale new heights
of desirability worldwide. But nowhere is this more apparent than
within the philatelic world - where the issuing in recent years by
an ever-increasing number of countries around the globe of
handsome, highly-prized stamp sets depicting a spectacular array of
dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals is matched only by the
corresponding increase of thematic collectors eager to amass an
eyecatching, comprehensive menagerie of palaeontological monsters
that the custodians of Jurassic Park could only dream about Today,
well over 500 sets of stamps portraying all manner of dinosaurs and
also a multifarious assemblage of other prehistoric animals have
been issued, with a substantial proportion of these having appeared
within the last decade alone - confirming the escalating interest
among collectors in this exciting thematic subject. And who can
blame them? After all, where else but in the pages of a stamp album
could stegosaurs and plesiosaurs, tyrannosaurs and sabre-tooth
tigers, brachiosaurs, mammoths, belemnites, ground sloths, giant
birds, and ichthyosaurs jostle for attention with velociraptors and
trilobites, dimetrodonts and diplodocuses, mosasaurs, woolly
rhinoceroses, Archaeopteryx, titanosaurs, iguanodontids, ammonites,
giant sea scorpions, and innumerable other spectacular denizens of
our planet's distant past? Now, for the very first time, here is a
philatelic catalogue devoted exclusively to these incredible
animals. Compiled by zoologist Dr Karl P.N. Shuker, a lifelong,
enthusiastic collector of wildlife stamps and with an especial
interest in those that portray fossil species, it provides an
exhaustive, definitive listing of stamps and miniature sheets
depicting dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals issued by
countries throughout the world. It also includes sections dealing
with cryptozoological stamps, dinosaur stamp superlatives, and
unofficial prehistoric animal stamps. This invaluable book will
undoubtedly encourage everyone with a passion for dinosaurs and
other prehistoric creatures to pursue it not only on screen, in
books, or in museums but also via the ever-fascinating world of
philately.
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