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Botswana - Christmas
3 November 1970
4 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring the four values
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Winning the award for most colourful stamps (so far, at least)
is this - the Botswana 1970 Christmas issue which features four
stylised animals - a crocodile, giraffe, elephant and a rhino, as
childrens’ toys.
The issue also included a minisheet containing all four values,
which is visible in the enlarged picture available here.
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Niger - Europafrique
1970
1 value only
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Just to confuse matters, Niger produced two separate stamp
issues to commemorate the Europafrique stamp conference which was
held in Naples, Italy, in May 1970. The first, which is the one
which features a giraffe, is a stylised image of the Bay of Naples,
with Mount Vesuvius smoking in the background, and a magnifying
glass being held over the 25F value from the 1959 Niger wild
animals and birds series (details of which can be found here). The stamp, which was printed
by Delrieu, was designed by Jacque Combet, who was introduced to
stamp engraving by Albert Decaris, and who during his career
designed and / or engraved more than 1300 stamps.
The second Europafrique stamp issued later in the year is a 50F
value in red and green and does not feature a giraffe.
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Burundi - African animals
19 March 1971
24 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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Comprising a colourful set of 24 stamps. arranged in 6 tenant
strips of 4 stamps in each, with each strip being coloured a
different colour to the next, this is a contender for the largest
set - at least so far.
The giraffe value comes at the end of the orange strip - full
details of values, colours, etc., can be found in the complete list. The series was reissued
later in the year with an overprint marking the fight against
racism and racial discrimination.
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Cuba - Childrens’ paintings
1971
7 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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The first stamps from the Caribbean to feature giraffes, this
is a series of seven stamps featuring paintings done by various
Cuban children. Admittedly slightly difficult to make out, the
designs feature a house, a train, a sugar-cane cutter, the return
of Cuban fishermen, the zoo (featuring a giraffe, or at least an
approximation of one), a house and garden, and a landscape.
The complete list has details of
the prices and values of the stamps - in short, a trend is starting
to appear as the years move on, and increasing numbers of
production leads to greater availability and lower prices - this
set catalogues at around £4.75 mint, and can be picked up for
substantially less.
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Chad - Unknown
25 May 1972
5 values in total, none featuring giraffe 1 minisheet featuring
giraffe
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An airmail minisheet with one stamp, which features four lions
of varying ages. The sheet itself features a map of Chad (or
Tchad), showing its historic capital Fort Lamy, along with a
variety of African animals including a giraffe, an elephant, a
monkey, a hippo and a crocodile.
The minisheet is part of a set which features five other stamps, in
ascending order the 20f value with zebras, a 30f value with
mandrills, a 100f value with elephants, a 130f value with gazelles
and a 150f value with hippopotamuses.
A number of Tchad issues from around this time are noted in the
catalogues as probably not having been available in Chad, which
would shed a degree of doubt on whether or not they were genuinely
issued for postal usage.
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Zambia - National Parks
30 June 1972
4 values in total (minisheet), 1 value featuring giraffe
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Only issued as a minisheet of four stamps (as opposed to a
series that also includes a minisheet), this issue celebrates the
National Parks of Zambia by showing them on a map. A giraffe and a
zebra feature in the top left value of the four alongside Johnstone
Falls.
The minisheet was part of a wider series of 3 issues that year
themed around conservation, including the protection of endangered
creatures and the protection of natural resources.
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Central African
Republic - Clocks
31 July 1972
5 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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A series of five stamps designed by Jean Chesnot and printed by
Delrieu - Chesnot was, along with Pheulpin and Fievet, one of the
great French stamp designers / engravers. The stamps each feature
designs of clock faces from the Central African Republic’s Horcen
clock factory.
The giraffe value is the 30F value which features a clock face
whose design is a giraffe watching a couple of monkeys scamper
about in a tree.
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Poland - Zoo animals
21 August 1972
9 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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A series of nine values featuring various zoo animals, in all
cases on a plain brown background. In ascending order of value the
animals are leopard, giraffe, toucan, chimpanzee, gibbon,
crocodile, kangaroo, tiger and zebra.
Until I am able to obtain a set of these stamps I cannot provide
any pictures, nor any further information about who was responsible
for their design, engraving or printing, although the complete list does have information on
catalogue numbers and values.
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Cameroun - Youth Stamps
1972
4 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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Another series of Youth Stamps, this time four paintings
featuring various designs - in ascending order a giraffe with a
palm tree, home industries, a blacksmith and women carrying
things.
I have no information about the designer of the stamps, although
have seen reference to this being “GJU” - any information would be
gratefully received by email to info@giraffestamps.co.uk.
Details of values, prices and catalogue numbers are in the complete
list.
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Upper Volta - Wild animals
1973
5 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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A series of five airmail stamps along similar lines to those
being brought out by other African countries in this period (such
as those from the Central African Empire further down this page
here).
Drawn by “Delfaut” (on whom I have no further information) the set
comprises five stamps, featuring a giraffe, a leopard, elephants, a
lion and a crocodile and a minisheet featuring a rhino and
gazelles.
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South West Africa -
Twyfelfontein cave paintings
10 April 1974
3 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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In what is now Namibia, the Twyfelfontein site (Namibia’s first
World Heritage Site) features cave paintings created between 1000BC
and 1000AD. The three stamps in the issue feature paintings of rock
paintings from the region, done by the English born German artist
Otto Schroder. The lowest of the three values features a giraffe,
the next an elephant, and the third an antelope known as the
dancing kudu. Values and catalogue details feature in the complete list.
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Togo - Wild animals
7 September 1974
5 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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A set of three postage stamps and two airmail stamps featuring
various african animals.
The stamps appear to have been designed by “MS” as those initials
feature in the bottom right hand corner of these and various other
Togolese stamps, but I have no further information about who this
may be - as Togo was a former French colony up until 1960 it would
seem reasonable to presume that the designer was French, but none
of the usual suspects of French engravers have matching initials.
Any information would be gratefully received by email to info@giraffestamps.co.uk.
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Botswana - Christmas
4 November 1974
4 values in total, none featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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A christmas issue featuring various flowers, this series came
in the form of four individual stamps, and one minisheet featuring
all four values. The minisheet features a tropical Botswana
background scene which includes a giraffe in one margin and a zebra
in another.
The issue was designed by an M. F. Bryan, who I believe was
responsible for a number of other stamps, but on whom I have no
further details - any useful information would be gratefully
received by email to info@giraffestamps.co.uk.
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Kenya Uganda Tanzania - International
Conference on Social Welfare
1974
1 value only
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Helping Tanzania to earn its place as the producer of more
giraffe-related philately than any other country, in 1974 there was
a joint issue from Kenya Uganda and Tanzania (the first for a
while) featuring a giraffe.
Issued to commemorate the 17th International Conference on Social
Welfare, which was held from 14 July to 20 July 1974 in Nairobi,
Kenya, the stamp features in the background a pair of giraffes
under an acacia tree at dawn to symbolise the dawn of the United
Nation’s Second Development Plan in Africa.
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Czechoslovakia - Old
shooting targets
1974
6 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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A series of six stamps featuring various historical images from
the 1830s or thereabouts which had been used as shooting targets.
The stamps were designed by Bedřich Housa, a well-know Czech stamp
designer who I believe is still designing stamps to this day.
The highest value of the five features an image of a giraffe with a
Turk handler, from 1831. The image brings to mind Zarafa for those
that have read the book (which you can find here if you’re interested). The top three values,
at least, were also issued in blocks of four stamps - an example
showing the giraffe value is available here.
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Swaziland - Animals
(revalued)
2 January 1975
2 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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Already mentioned on this site in the 1960s (here), the Swaziland animals
series featured a giraffe and a waterbuck on its two highest
values. Those stamps were values in South African Rand, which was
the adopted currency of Swaziland at the time.
In 1974, however, Swaziland introduced its own currency, the
lilangeni, each of which was subdivided into 100 cents. The
lilangeni (plural “emalangeni”) was issued at par with the South
African Rand, which made things easier, but which necessitated that
the two highest values from the 1975 set be revalued (the remaining
values were in cents, and thus didn’t need revaluing). As a result
they were reissued - the first, the waterbuck, valued at 1
lilangeni, and the second, the giraffe, valued at 2. I’m not
exactly sure why the waterbuck value has “1E” rather than “1L”, as
to my mind it should be the singular rather than the plural.
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Kenya - Railway Transport in East
Africa
4 October 1976
4 values in total, none featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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A series of four stamps, issued as a minisheet, as a
simultaneous issue in each of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. In all
four cases the stamps and the minisheet were identical other than
the name of the issuing country.
The stamps featured (in ascending order of value) the Tanzania -
Zambia Railway, the Nile Bridge over the River Nile in Uganda, the
railway station at Nakuru in Kenya and an 1896 Class A
Locomotive).
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Uganda - Railway Transport in East
Africa
4 October 1976
4 values in total, none featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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Identical in every respect to the Kenya minisheet issued on the
same day, other than being marked as issued by Uganda. The
minisheet features various African animals, including impala, lion,
giraffe and elephant, as well as a number of small birds.
The sheets were issued with the stamps both perforate and
imperforate.
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Tanzania - Railway Transport in
East Africa
4 October 1976
4 values in total, none featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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Identical in every respect, with the exception of the name of
the issuing country, to the previous minisheets from Kenya and
Uganda. These were amongst the last issue from the East Africa Post
and Telecommunications Corporation, which was disbanded in 1977,
giving birth to each country’s own provider.
Details of the catalogue numbers, values, and the like for all
three minisheets can be found in the complete list.
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Czechoslovakia - Dvur
Kralove Wildlife Park
1976
6 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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A series of six stamps featuring animals from Czechoslovakia’s
Dvur Kralove Wildlife Park, including a giraffe on the fourth
value.
The stamps appear to have been designed by J. Balaz (each stamp
bears his name) but they have been engraved by different engravers
- the giraffe value was, I believe, engraved by “M. Ondracek” who
appears, from a Google search, to have engraved a number of issues
worldwide. The other engravers’ names (so far as I can make out)
include J. Hercik, Jindra S. (two stamps), Jan Hracek and L.
Jirka.
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Niger - Archaeology
1976
3 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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An issue on the theme of archaeology which features giraffe
rock carvings from the pre-historic era (one of a number, full
details of which are contained in the description of the Zimbabwe
cave paintings issue in 1982, covered here).
The rock carvings featured are the Dabous carvings, believed to
have been completed at some stage between 9000BC and 5000BC.
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Kenya - 50th Anniversary of the
Nairobi / Addis Ababa HIghway
10 November 1977
4 values in total, none featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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A not dissimilar issue to the Railway issue of the previous
year (covered here), this issue
commemorates the 50th anniversary of the highway linking Nairobi,
capital of Kenya, to Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, and features
four stamps designed by R. Granger Barrett (a British stamp
designer responsible for numerous stamps from numerous countries)
depicting a border point, the postal service, the Thika Flyover and
elephants at the Marsabit Game Lodge.
The borders of the minisheet are decorated with various wild
animals, amongst them two giraffes.
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Somalia - Nature conservation
1977
6 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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A series of six stamps on the common theme of wildlife
conservation, also encompassing a minisheet of the six values.
Designed by Cali Sheekh, and printed at the IPS in Rome, the stamps
feature various wild animals, including a giraffe on the highest of
the six values. The minisheet, in addition, features a leopard
rampant against the side of the stamps and something in Somali
which I am unable to translate. From pictures which I have seen
there are further details on the stamps, but until I am able to buy
a set myself I do not know what they are.
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Libya - Wadi Mathendous cave
paintings
1 January 1978
5 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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Another seres which features pre-historic cave paintings, this
time from Wadi Mathendous, a site in south western Libya.
There are five stamps in the series, depicting a crocodile, an
elephant, a giraffe, an antelope and another elephant. I have no
further information on the designer of the stamps, although
catalogue details, prices and values and the like are in the
complete list. If anyone does know of any information which could
be usefully added to these pages then feel free to email me at
info@giraffestamps.co.uk.
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Rhodesia - Definitives
16 August 1978
15 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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These are the only giraffe-related stamps from Rhodesia.
Confusingly, Rhodesia existed as a state between 1965 and 1979 -
prior to 1965 it was Southern Rhodesia (Northern Rhodesia had
become Zambia in 1964), and for a few short months in 1979 became
the Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, then re-became Southern
Rhodesia, before finally becoming the Republic of Zimbabwe three
months later.
These definitives, which would be recycled by Zimbabwe in 1980 (for
details of which see here)
were based on a theme of gemstones and wild animals (designed by
Neil O. Pederson) and waterfalls (designed by David Myles) and
printed by Mardon Printers Limited in Salisbury - full details are
in the complete list.
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Tanzania - The Game Lodges of
Tanzania
11 September 1978
6 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
1 minisheet of all 6 values, also featuring giraffe on the
minisheet
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A series of six stamps, with a minisheet featuring all six
stamps and a giraffe design, based around the various Game Lodges
of Tanzania. The second of the two values, the one shilling value,
features the Lobo Wildlife Lodge with a giraffe and a buffalo in
the grounds.
Full details of prices, values, catalogue numbers and the like are
in the complete list.
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Cuba - African Animals
20 October 1978
6 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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This series, the second from Cuba, consists of six stamps
featuring African Animals, although I have seen it described as
featuring animals from Havana Zoo.
In ascending order of face value, the stamps feature a rhinoceros,
an okapi (the closest living relative of the giraffe), a mandrill
(a baboon-like primate), a giraffe, a leopard and an elephant. A
full mint set catalogues at around £3.00 (details are in the
complete list), but will be
available for considerably less on auction websites such as
eBay.
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Niger - Philexafrique
1 November 1978
2 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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Two airmail values issued to commemorate the 1979 Philexafrique
II convention held in June of that year at Libreville, capital of
Gabon.
Both were designed by Jean-Paul Veret-Lemarinier, the French stamp
designer who had started working the previous year for the French
“BEPTOM”, the Office of Overseas Posts and Telecommunications, and
printed by Edila. Both stamps have face values of 100 francs - the
one featuring the giraffes also features the 2 franc value
(featuring crowned cranes) from the 1959 series, details of which
are here.
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Niger - Endangered species
(WWF)
20 November 1978
6 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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One of a number of series, issued by many countries, in support
of the World Wildlife Fund, on this occasion featuring Endangered
Species (to be precise, a giraffe, an ostrich, a cheetah, an oryx,
an addax and a hartebeest).
Other giraffe-related WWF series issued over the years include the
Central African Empire featured here, one from Burundi in
1982, one from Kenya in
1989, and a 1997 issue from
Uganda that can be found here.
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Central African
Empire - Endangered animals
1978
6 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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Another WWF issue, this one issued by the Central African
Empire, The stamps are photographic in nature, and feature (in
ascending order) a rhinoceros, a crocodile, a leopard, a giraffe,
an elephant and a gorilla.
The Central African Empire was a relatively short-lived country
born out of the Central African Republic when the then president,
Jean-Bedel Bokassa, declared himself emperor on 4 December 1978. He
went on to spend a quarter of the country’s annual government
income (US$20 million) on his coronation. Strangely enough, he was
ousted on 20 September 1979 - whilst I don’t know the exact date of
these stamps, therefore, they must have been issued between 4
December and 31 December 1978.
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Liberia - OUA 16th anniversary
Summit Conference
6 July 1979
4 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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The second set of giraffe-related stamps to be issued by
Liberia, on this occasion to celebrate the 16th summit conference
of the Organisation for African Unity.
The stamps feature various native designs - the 35c value features
a variety of African animals, including antelope, leopard,
elephant, giraffe and lion).
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Zambia - International Year of the
Child
21 September 1979
4 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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One of a number of series of stamps issued in support of
UNICEF, the United Nations organisation for the welfare of children
(others include a 1996 issue from Thailand detailed here, and a 2000 Czech Republic
issue covered here).
The stamps comprise a minisheet of four values which illustrate
various Zambian childrens’ stories, the second of which (on the
theme of why the zebra has no horns) features a giraffe in the
background. The border of the sheet features the heading
“International Year of the Child” and “1979 - IYI - 1979”
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Benin - Endangered animals
17 October 1979
4 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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A series of four stamps on the theme of endangered animals -
the first giraffe-related stamps from Benin (not including some
also-rans from 1964 covered at the foot of this page).
The stamps were designed by the French stamp engraver Pierrette
Lambert who, during her career, designed some 1300 stamps
(including the Cameroun stamps later in 1979 detailed here) and feature, in ascending order,
antelopes, giraffes, a chimpanzee, and elephants.
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Zaire - Zaire River Expedition
1979
8 values in total, none value featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe in the margin
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Now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and previously featuring
in this list (here)
as the Belgian Congo, Zaire was Zaire from 1971 to 1997.
This issue, which features a total of 8 stamps (none featuring
giraffe) and a minisheet comprised of the highest four values and
featuring a giraffe in the margins, commemorates expeditions up the
Zaire River (better known as the Congo River). More details about
the stamps and the minisheet can be found in the complete list.
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Cameroun - Endangered animals
1979
5 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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A further series of stamps designed by Pierrette Lambert, and
printed at Cartor Security Printing in Paris.
The series features, in ascending order of value, a rhinoceros, a
gorilla, a giraffe, an elephant and a leopard. Mint sets catalogue
at around £6.00, so can probably be picked up for around half that.
Details of values, colours, etc., are in the complete list.
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Also rans between 1970 and 1979
Other issues from the period between 1970 and 1979 (inclusive)
which included giraffes in an ancillary fashion, or not
significantly enough to merit inclusion in the main list above were
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1970 - Chad - a series of 5 stamps on artisans, the 5F stamp of
which features a small wooden giraffe in the background.
1974 - Vatican City - a series of 5 stamps themed on the Bible, one
of which features Noah’s Ark with two giraffes standing on the
deck.
1978 - Monaco - a one-stamp Christmas issue which features a small
giraffe in the background.
1979 - North Korea - a mini-sheet containing six stamps which
features a small giraffe bending down to drink in the bottom corner
of the sheet.
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As far as I am aware, the information on this page is complete
and accurate, and there are were no other giraffe-related stamps
issued between 1970 and 1979 (inclusive). If you spot any missing
issues, errors, inaccuracies, or have any information that could be
added to that contained in these pages then please don’t hesitate
to email me at info@giraffestamps.co.uk.
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