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Zimbabwe - Definitives
18 April 1980
16 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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In April 1980 the Republic of Zimbabwe came into existence -
its first set of definitive stamps were issued in the same month,
and used as their basis the 1978 Rhodesia issue covered here featuring gemstones, animals
and waterfalls.
One value, the 40c value featuring Bundi Falls, was a new value,
issued on 14 March 1983. Other than that, and aside from the change
of name, the stamps were identical, were designed by Neil O.
Pederson (gemstones and wild animals) and David Myles (waterfalls),
and were printed by Mardon Printers in Salisbury.
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Tanzania - Roland Hill
Aniversary
21 April 1980
4 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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A slightly confusing issue, this one, in terms of when it was
actually issued. Sir Rowland Hill died on 27 August 1879, which
would mean that an issue celebrating the centenary of his death
would have been issued in 1979. Stanley Gibbons, however, list the
issue date as being 21 April 1980.
Either way, the issue is comprised of four stamps, and a minisheet
featuring the four values on a background of the flag of Tanzania.
Each of the stamps features an old stamp from Tanzania, and the
third of the four values features the 25c giraffe stamp from the
1922 Tanganyika Definitives which can be found here. Details of the various
colours, values and catalogue numbers can be found in the complete list.
The issue was also released with an overprint to commemorate the
London 1980 Philatelic Exhibition
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Togo - Disney
14 September 1980
8 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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This is the first of a number of Disney-related issues,
including Sierra Leona in 1983, Belize in 1985, Dominica in 1990, Tanzania in 1994, Uganda in 1994, Grenada in 1998 and 1999, and Guyana in 2001.
This issue features various Disney characters with various African
animals - the 100F value features Mickey Mouse checking the
heartbeat of a giraffe with a bandaged neck.
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South West Africa -
Wildlife Definitives
1 October 1980
17 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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Another definitive issue from South West Africa - the third, in
fact, the first being the 1954 issue detailed here, and the second
not featuring giraffes and thus not covered on this site.
The stamps feature various paintings of wildlife done by the artist
Paul Bosman. Stamp websites do feature four other values (the 11c
Blue Wildebeeste, 12c Buffalo, 14c Caracal and 16c Warthog) that do
not seem to form part of the official set - any information on why
these are not included in the main set of 17 stamps would be
gratefully received by email to info@giraffestamps.co.uk. In
addition there are three so-called "coil stamps" - a 1c value
featuring a meerkat, a 2c value featuring a monkey of some
description, and a 5c value featuring a baboon.
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Tanzania - Wildlife
1 October 1980
14 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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Another issue from Tanzania - this time a set of 14 wildlife
definitive stamps featuring a painting of the animal along with its
name in Latin, English and Swahili.
The issue was printed by John Waddington Limited - a producer of
playing cards, packaging and stamps, amongst other things, from
Kirkstall in Leeds, England. The stamps were also issued with an
"OFFICIAL" overprint in around 1984 or 1985.
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Tanzania - National Parks
26 January 1981
4 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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An issue produced to commemorate the 60th aniversary of the
Ngorongoro and Serengeti National Parks, two of Tanzania's most
famous parks, which were created in 1921. The lowest of the four
values, the 50c, is for the Ngorongoro and features the crossed
heads of two giraffes in the middle of an emblem representing the
park - the other values, in ascending order, feature a gazelle on
the 1s and 5s stamps, an a rhinoceros on the 20s.
The series was reissued in 1985 with an overprint to commemorate
the 75th anniversary of the Girl Guides organisation - the
overprint is silver on the giraffe value, and black on the
remainder (as the giraffe value is predominantly black
itself).
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Mozambique - Protected animals
of Mozambique
3 March 1981
8 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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A series (as with many others featuring giraffes) which takes
as its theme endangered animals, in this case from Mozambique. In
ascending order of value the stamps feature a giraffe, an antelope,
an aardark, a python, a turtle, a stork, another stork, and a
bustard.
This is the first issue from Mozambique to feature a giraffe for
almost 50 years, the previous one having been the 1937 issue.
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Niger - Wild animals of Niger
17 March 1981
6 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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An issue featuring various wild animals of Niger, including a
giraffe on the second-highest value, and an ostrich, an oryx, a
bustard, a gazelle and an addax on the other values.
The issue was designed by a "J. Caffe", although I have no
information as to who this may be, and was printed by Cartor
Security Printing in France. Any further information would be
gratefully received by email to info@giraffestamps.co.uk.
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Kenya - Royal Wedding
29 July 1981
4 values in total, none value featuring giraffe
4 minisheets, all featuring giraffe
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To commemorate the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana
Spencer, which took place on 29 July 1981, Kenya issued four
stamps, featuring, in ascending order, Prince Charles with Kenyan
President Moi, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Royal Yacht Britannia and
Prince Charles on safari in Kenya.
Whilst the stamps do not featuring giraffes themselves, they were
also each issued as a minisheet with five stamps and a token, and
giraffes feature in the border of each of the minisheets. Details
are in the complete list.
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Kenya - Endangered animals
31 August 1981
4 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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Another issue from Kenya, this time to commemorate various
endangered animals, which features in ascending order a giraffe, a
bongo, a roan antelope and a mangavey.
The stamps were designed by the British artist Rita Fennessey, who
painted a large number of scenes of African life and wildlife, and
were printed by the House of Questa, a firm founded in 1966, and
which continued in existence until taken over by the MDC
Corporation of Canada in 1996.
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Vietnam - Animals
1 December 1981
8 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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Vietnam (one of the finest countries in the world) makes a late
entry into the giraffe-related postage stakes with this issue, its
one and only, on the theme of wild animals. To be frank, they're
not the most attractive stamps ever issued, but there's a certain
kitschy charm about them. And they're cheap - a mint set will only
set you back a few pounds or so (as ever, more complete details are
available in the complete
list).
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Central African
Republic - Animals of Central Africa
22 January 1982
6 values in total, all featuring giraffe
6 minisheets, one featuring giraffe
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A set of six stamps on the theme of the wildlife of Central
Africa - each of the six values also had a corresponding minisheet
featuring a further picture of the animal in question. In ascending
order of value the animals featured are elepant, giraffe, addax,
ocapi, mandril and lion, with those two highest values being
airmail stamps.
Unlike the subsequent Central African Republic issue a few years
later (featured here), I have no
information on the designer of the stamps as there is no name
given.
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Nigeria - 75th Anniversary of
Scouting
22 February 1982
2 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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Another entry from Nigeria (its sixth so far) - this time to
celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Scouting Movement. Admittedly
the giraffe, which features on one of the two stamps, is quite
small, and it is a borderline decision to give it its own entry
rather than merely mention it as an also-ran.
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Zimbabwe - Rock paintings
17 March 1982
6 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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Another issue to feature rock paintings (along with South West
Africa in 1954, Spain in
1967, Chad, also in 1967 in Botswana in 1968, Libya in 1978 and Namibia in 2008).
The carvings in this issue come from caves in the Mtoko region of
Zimbabwe.
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Japan - 100th Anniversary of Ueno
Zoo
30 May 1982
4 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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An issue to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tokyo's Ueno
Zoo, the oldest in Japan, which opened on March 20 1882. Each of
the four stamps features two animals - one prominently and one in
the background. The pairings are gorilla and flamingo, lion and
penguins, panda and elephants and giraffe and zebra.
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Burundi - Wild animals
1982
13 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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Another wild animal issue from Burundi (following on from its
issues in 1964 and 1971). This issue features thirteen
values featuring (in ascending order) lion, giraffe, rhino,
buffalo, elephant, hippo, zebra, warthog, eland, jackal, cheetah,
wildebeeste and hyena.
For some reason which, as yet, I have been unable to ascertain, the
stamps have exceedingly high catalogue values, starting at £5.00
for the lowest value and ascending to £95.00, £100.00 and £120.00
for the top three values. In total a mint set catalogues at
£633.25!
The issue was reprinted and re-released in the following year with
the WWF's (as it was then) panda logo.
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Cameroun - Philexfrance
1982
1 value only
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Another issue from Cameroun, this time to mark the 1982
philatelic exhibition Philexfrance, held in Paris, France. The
stamp was designed Jacques Combet, who was responsible for
Cameroun's 1962 issue detailed here as well as Niger's 1972
Europafrique stamp detailed here.
The stamp features a carving, the heads of two giraffes, and a map
of Cameroun showing its capital, Yaounde. Details of catalogue
numbers and the like are in the complete list.
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Zambia - Animals
21 July 1983
4 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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A set of stamps on the theme of the wildlife of Zambia
featuring, in ascending order, a giraffe, a wildebeeste, a lechwe
and a duiker. I have no additional information on matters such as
the artist of the stamps, so any such information will be
gratefully received by email to info@giraffestamps.co.uk.
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Uganda - Wildlife at a watering
hole
22 August 1983
5 values in total, none featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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An issue from Uganda themed around wildlife at a watering hole
- a theme to be repeated six years later here. This is a less impressive set than
the subsequent one, with four stamps featuring elephants (with the
WWF logo, branding it as a WWF issue) and a fifth stamp as part of
a minisheet, with the stamp featuring zebras and the background of
the sheet featuring giraffes - but no WWF logo. It's slightly
strange, as though the zebra stamp was not part of the set, as
certainly on eBay one sees the four elephant stamps or covers sold,
but little mention of the fifth minisheet.
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Sierra Leone - Disney
18 November 1983
8 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
1 minisheet, not featuring giraffe
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Another Disney-related issue, as with the Togo issue in
1980, and the subsequent Belize issue in
1985, as well as the Redonda issue
covered as an also-ran at the foot of the page.
The issue features Disney characters with various animals in a
Space Ark Fantasty theme, and the giraffe features as a passenger
in a rocket piloted by Mickey Mouse, the second-highest value. More
details of prices, catalogue numbers and the like are in the
complete list.
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Central African
Republic - Wildlife conservation
1984
2 values in total, both featuring giraffe
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An issue of two stamps on the theme of the protection of
wildlife - the first features animals, including a giraffe, fleeing
from a fire, and the second features rangers protecting animals
(also including a giraffe) from poachers.
The stamps were designed by a local artist, Leon B. Kandogo-Kongou,
and a Belgian artist (slightly surprising given the CAR's French
heritage) Oscar Bonnevalle, well-known for his stamp designs.
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Kenya - Papal Visit
17 August 1985
6 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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A slightly off-the-wall minisheet, issued to commemorate the
visit of Pope John Paul II to Kenya on the occasion of the 43rd
International Eucharistic Congress held in Nairobi in August
1985.
The minisheet features His Holiness in front of a city-scape of
Nairobi, whilst to one side is an image of the Nairobi National
Park with various animals, including two giraffes.
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Tanzania - Trains
7 October 1985
4 values in total, none featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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This borders on an also-ran, to be honest. A series of four
stamps, and one minisheet featuring two of the stamps, themed
around trains, with the minisheet featurig a somewhat small giraffe
in the background.
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Mozambique - The Companies of
Mozambique
21 December 1985
4 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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An interesting issue which harkens back to the Nyassa and
Mozambique Companies, who controlled territories in what would
later become Mozambique. Two of the stamps feature stamps from a
1918 issue by the Mozambique Company (Companhia de Moçambique),
whilst the other two feature stamps from the Nyassa Company
(Companhia do Niassa) 1901 issue which starts this website here, and one from the 1924
Postages Due series from Nyassa covered here. The latter value features
a giraffe, the former a zebra.
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Belize - 30th Anniversary of
Disneyland
1985
9 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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Another Disney-related series, this time from the Central
American country of Belize, with a nine-stamp series to celebrate
the 30th anniversary of Disneyland. The stamps feature children
from various countries - in ascending order they are Canada, the
USA, South America, Africa (featuring a giraffe), West Indies,
Belize, Russia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and Japan.
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China - 580th Anniversary of Zheng
He’s West Seas Expedition
1985
4 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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A series to celebrate the 1405 voyage of Zheng He, a famous
Chinese explorer, with four stamps featuring Zheng He in various
locations - the highest value features him in West Africa, and a
pair of giraffes poking their heads into the side of the
frame.
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Mauritania -
Anti-desertification campaign
1985
4 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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A series of stamps from Mauritania themed on
anti-desertification, one of which, the middle value, features
giraffes.
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Tanzania - Endangered animals
30 June 1986
4 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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This is an issue comprised of four stamps and a minisheet, with
each of the four values picturing various endangered animals from
Tanzania. In ascending orde the animals featured are an oryx (5s),
a giraffe (10s), a rhino (20s) and a cheetah (30s).
I believe that the stamps were printed by Holders Press, but have
no information about whether this was a Tanzanian company or
otherwise. As with more modern stamp issues, there is little or no
information available about who the designer of the stamps was, and
the custom of having stamps created by famous engravers appears to
be slowly dying out by this stage.
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Senegal - Guembuel Wildlife
Park
7 October 1985
5 values in total, 2 values featuring giraffe
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A series of five stamps featuring the wildlife from the
Guembuel wildlife reserve, which includes giraffes on the third
value, the 85f. The stamps were designed by Momar Ndiaye and
printed by Cartor Security Printing.
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Nicaragua - Endangered
animals
20 October 1986
6 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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A seres of six stamps, one of which features a giraffe, on the
theme of endangered animals. The other values show an elephant, a
rhinoceros, a zebra, a mandril and a tiger.
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Laos - Animals
1986
7 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
1 minisheet, not featuring giraffe
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A set of seven values and one minisheet, issued in conjunction
with the Ameripex 86 conference (its logo features on the
minisheet) - the values feature, in ascending order, a giraffe,
lion, elephnat, kangaroo, koala, flamingo, panda and bison.
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Tonga - WWF / Noah’s Ark
6 May 1987
12 values in total, 3 values featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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A large sheet of 12 stamps on the theme of Noah's Ark, three of
which feature giraffes. As and when I am able to purchase a copy I
will provide more information.
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Gambia - CAPEX 87
15 June 1987
1 value, not featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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A minisheet issued to commemorate Capex 1987, which features
various African mammals illustrating the margins of the sheet,
including a giraffe, lion, antelope, leopard and zebra.
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Botswana - Wildlife
conservation
3 August 1987
20 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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A large series on the theme of wildlife conservation featuring,
in ascending order, a Cape fox, a lechwe, a zebra, a duiker, the
banded mongoose, a genet, a hedgehgog, a hare, a hippo, a suricate,
a caracal, a steenbok, a gemsbok, a rhino, a reedbuck, a dassie, a
giraffe, a tsessebe, a jackal and a hartebeeste.
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Kenya - The Game Lodges of Kenya
31 May 1988
6 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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An issue similar to that produced by Tanazania in 1978 (covered
in more detail here) which
commemorates various game lodges in Kenya. Unlike that issue,
however, one of the six values features a giraffe, rather than
relegating it to an appearance in the minisheet.
The lodges featured are, in ascending order, the Samburu Lodge, the
Naro Muru River Lodge, the Mara Serena Lodge in the Masai Mara
National Park, the Voi Safari Lodge, the Kilimanjaro Buffalo Lodge
and the Meru Mulika Lodge. The giraffes feature in the foregraound
of the Kilimanjaro Buffalo Lodge.
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Uganda - National Parks
18 November 1988
8 values in total, none featuring giraffe
2 minisheets, one featuring giraffe
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A series of four stamps and one minisheet featuring the
National Parks of Uganda. The four individual values feature
giraffes in the Kidepo ValleyNational Parkpark, zebra in the Lake
Mburo National Park, buffalo in the Murchison Falls National Park
and pelican in the Queen Elizabeth National Park, whilst the
minisheet features, as well roan antelopes in the Lake Mburo
National Park, a map of Uganda showing the location of its various
parks.
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Saint Vincent - Noah’s Ark
10 April 1989
25 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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Another issue around the theme of Noah's Ark (as with the Tonga
issue further up the page here. In this
instances it's from the carribean island of St. Vincent (better
known for its cricketing stamps, to be honest!) - a colourful issue
featuring 25 stamps arranged in a 5x block depicting Noah's Ark and
various animals - two giraffes (naturally!) feature on one of the
stamps.
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Kenya - WWF
12 July 1989
4 values in total all featuring giraffe
1 minisheet featuring giraffe
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Another WWF issue, this one dedicated to the reticulated (which
means "net-like") giraffe, which is the sub-species of giraffe that
most people think of when they think of a giraffe.
The issue features four stamps and a minisheet. Pictures will be
included when I acquire a set, but in the meantime details are
available in the complete
list.
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Uganda - Fungi
14 August 1989
8 values in total, none featuring giraffe
2 minisheets, one featuring giraffe
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A somewhat tangential issue for giraffe to feature on - an
eight stamp and two minisheet issue dedicated to fungi of various
different sorts. The giraffes (a mother and baby) feature on one of
the two minisheets - a mushroom of some description is on the stamp
itself, whilst the giraffes are in teh background.
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Uganda - Wildlife at
watering-hole
12 September 1989
20 values in total, 2 values featuring giraffe
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An impressive set, this one, with no less than 20 stamps, in a
5x4 tenant block, depicting wildlife at a Ugandan watering-hole.
Giraffes feature on two of the twenty stamps - three small giraffes
in the background (so on the fourth stamp of the first pane), and
one giraffe drinking at the watering-hole (so on the second stamps
of the second pane).
The other 18 stamps feature a bewildering array of wildlife, full
details of which can be found in the complete list.
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Argentina - Christmas
1989
3 values in total, 1 value featuring giraffe
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The first issue from continental South America, I believe - a
Christmas issue from Argentina comprised of three stamps, one of
which depicts a Tropical Christmas, with a giraffe in the
background.
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Also rans between 1980 and 1989
Other issues from the period between 1980 and 1989 (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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1982 - Chad - a series of six stamps on the theme of chess
grandmasters, one of which features a giraffe chess-piece.
1983 - Central African Republic - a series of four stamps on the
theme of chess grandmasters, one of which features a giraffe
chess-piece.
1984 - Guinea - a minisheet on the theme of chess grandmasters,
which features a giraffe chess-piece.
1985 - Chad - two stamps to commemorate the African Postal and
Telecommunications Union, one of which features a giraffe.
1989 - Redonda - a set of six stamps issued by Antigua (on behalf
of Redonda, a micronation) featuring various Disney scenes, one of
which features a giraffe.
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and accurate, and there are were no other giraffe-related stamps
issued between 1980 and 1989 (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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