Self Portrait (Titian)

  Self-Portrait is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian painter Titian. Dating to about 1560, when Titian was at least 70 years old, it is the latter of two surviving self-portraits by the artist.

  Postage stamp was printed in Bulgaria in 1986.

• Original name: "Автопортрет"
• Country: Bulgaria
• Year: 1986-12-23
• Series: Art
• Perforation: comb 14
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 33 x 56 mm
• Colors: Multicolor
• Face value: 42 ст
• Number of catalogue Michel: BG 3535

Venus with a Mirror (Titian)

  Venus with a Mirror (about 1555) is a painting by Titian, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and it is considered to be one of the collection's highlights. 

  Postage stamp was printed in Bulgaria in 1986.

• Original name: "Тоалетът на Венера"
• Country: Bulgaria
• Year: 1986-12-23
• Series: Art
• Perforation: comb 14
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 33 x 56 mm
• Colors: Multicolor
• Face value: 32 ст
• Number of catalogue Michel: BG 3534

Tarquin and Lucretia (Titian)

  Tarquin and Lucretia is an oil painting attributed to Titian, dated to around 1571. It was probably a commission for Philip II of Spain, remaining in his successors' collection until 1813, when it seems to have been taken to France by Joseph Bonaparte after he gave up the Spanish throne - after several private owners, it is now held at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. 

  Postage stamp was printed in Bulgaria in 1986.

• Original name: "Лукреция и Тарквиний"
• Country: Bulgaria
• Year: 1986-12-23
• Series: Art
• Perforation: comb 14
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 33 x 56 mm
• Colors: Multicolor
• Face value: 20 ст
• Number of catalogue Michel: BG 3532

Flora (Titian)

  Titian`s painting "Flora", completion date: 1515 - 1517. Gallery: The Uffizi Gallery, Italy. Postage stamp was printed in Bulgaria in 1986.

• Original name: "Флора"
• Country: Bulgaria
• Year: 1986-12-23
• Series: Art
• Perforation: comb 14
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 33 x 56 mm
• Colors: Multicolor
• Face value: 13 ст
• Number of catalogue Michel: BG 3531

Girl with fruit platter (Titian)

  Titian`s painting "Girl with a Basket of Fruits (Lavinia)", completion date: 1558. Gallery: The National Museum in Berlin, Germany. Postage stamp was printed in Bulgaria in 1986.

• Original name: "Момине с фруктиера"
• Country: Bulgaria
• Year: 1986-12-23
• Series: Art
• Perforation: comb 14
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 33 x 56 mm
• Colors: Multicolor
• Face value: 5 ст
• Number of catalogue Michel: BG 3530

São Tomé green pigeon

  The São Tomé green pigeon (Treron sanctithomae) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to São Tomé and Príncipe. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

• Original name "Protecção da natureza. Treron S. thomae"
• Series:Birds
• Themes:Animals
• Year: 1979
• Format:Souvenir Sheet
• Emission:Commemorative
• Perforation:comb 14½
• Printing:Offset lithography
• Size:120 x 103 mm
• Face value:25 Db

Orange Hermit (Satyrus bischoffi)

  The Orange Hermit (Chazara bischoffii) is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It can be found from Turkey, through Armenia, Iran, Azerbaijan and southern Transcaucasia. The wingspan is 45–60 mm. The butterflies fly from June to August.

• Original Name: "Сатир Бишоффа"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1986-03-18
• Series: Butterflies, IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
• Perforation: comb 12
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 40 x 28 mm
• Face value: 20 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5588

Dark creamson underwing (Catocala sponsa)

  Catocala sponsa, the dark crimson underwing, is a species of moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in Europe, North Africa and from Anatolia up to the Caucasus. The wingspan is 60–70 millimetres (2.4–2.8 in). Adults are on wing from July to September depending on the location. The larvae feed on oak.

• Original Name: "Лента орденская малиновая"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1986-03-18
• Series: Butterflies, IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
• Perforation: comb 12
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 40 x 28 mm
• Face value: 15 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5587

Sooty orange-tip (Zegris eupheme)

  The sooty orange tip (Zegris eupheme) is a Palearctic Pieridae butterfly that has a range that extends through southern Europe, southwest Europe, northern Africa, East Kazakhstan and Asia Minor Global warming currently seems to be extending its range to the north. The habitat consists of open flowery grasslands amongst hills. The wingspan is 46–50 mm (1.8–2.0 in). Adults have yellow undersides and a patch of orange. They have distinctive grey-black forewing tips. Adults are on wing from mid March to mid June in one generation per year.

• Original Name: "Зорька зегрис"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1986-03-18
• Series: Butterflies, IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
• Perforation: comb 12
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 40 x 28 mm
• Face value: 10 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5586

Allancastria caucasica

  Allancastria caucasica, sometimes referred to as Zerynthia caucasica, is an Old World papilionid butterfly whose geographical range extends from the Black Sea and southern Russia (southern Caucasus Mountains) to Georgia and northeast Turkey. It exhibits several geographical variants. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

• Original Name: "Зеринтия кавказская"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1986-03-18
• Series: Butterflies, IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
• Perforation: comb 12
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 40 x 28 mm
• Face value: 5 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5585

Crimson-speckled moth (Utetheisa pulchella)

  The Crimson-speckled Flunkey (Utetheisa pulchella) is a moth of the family Arctiidae. It is found in Africa, Southern Europe, Central and Southern Asia and Australia. The wingspan is 29–42 mm. The larvae feed on Forget-me-not, Echium, Borago and Anchusa species.

• Original Name: "Медведица красноточечная"
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1986-03-18
• Series: Butterflies, IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
• Perforation: comb 12
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 40 x 28 mm
• Face value: 4 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5584

Dinornis maximus (Afghan postage stamp)

  The giant moa (Dinornis) is an extinct genus of ratite birds belonging to the moa family. Like all ratites it was a member of the order Struthioniformes. The Struthioniformes are flightless birds with a sternum without a keel. They also have a distinctive palate. It was endemic to New Zealand. Two species of Dinornis are considered valid, D. novaezealandiae of the North Island, and D. robustus of the South. In addition, two further species (new lineage A and lineage B) have been suggested based on distinct DNA lineages.

• Original Name: "Dinornis maximus"
• Country: Afghanistan
• Year: 1988-06-06
• Series: Prehistorical Animals
• Perforation: comb 12 x 12¼
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 28 x 40 mm
• Face value: 30 ؋. 
• Number of catalogue Michel: AF 1587

Ceratosaurus (Afghan postage stamp)

  Ceratosaurus was a large predatory theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian), found in the Morrison Formation of North America, and the Lourinhã Formation of Portugal (and possibly the Tendaguru Formation in Tanzania). It was characterized by large jaws with blade-like teeth, a large, blade-like horn on the snout and a pair of hornlets over the eyes. The forelimbs were powerfully built but very short. The bones of the sacrum were fused (synsacrum) and the pelvic bones were fused together and to this structure (i.e. similar to modern birds). A row of small osteoderms was present down the middle of the back.

• Original Name: "Ceratosaurus"
• Country: Afghanistan
• Year: 1988-06-06
• Series: Prehistorical Animals
• Perforation: comb 12 x 12¼
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 28 x 40 mm
• Face value: 25 ؋.
• Number of catalogue Michel: AF 1586

Stegosaurus (Afghan postage stamp)

  Stegosaurus is a type of armored dinosaur. Their fossil bones have been found in rocks dated to the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian ages), between 155 to 150 million years ago, in the western United States and Portugal. Several species have been classified in the upper Morrison Formation of the western U.S, though only three are universally recognized; S. stenops, S. ungulatus and S. sulcatus. The remains of over 80 individual animals of this genus have been found. Stegosaurus would have lived alongside dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus; the latter two may have been predators of it.

• Original Name: "Stegosaurus"
• Country: Afghanistan
• Year: 1988-06-06
• Series: Prehistorical Animals
• Perforation: comb 12 x 12¼
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 40 x 28 mm
• Face value: 20 ؋.
• Number of catalogue Michel: AF 1585

Protoceratops (Afghan postage stamp)

  Protoceratops is a genus of sheep-sized (1.8 m long) herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur, from the Upper Cretaceous Period (Campanian stage) of what is now Mongolia. It was a member of the Protoceratopsidae, a group of early horned dinosaurs. Unlike later ceratopsians, however, it was a much smaller creature that lacked well-developed horns and retained some primitive traits not seen in later genera.

• Original Name: "Protoceratops"
• Country: Afghanistan
• Year: 1988-06-06
• Series: Prehistorical Animals
• Perforation: comb 12 x 12¼
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 40 x 28 mm
• Face value: 15 ؋.
• Number of catalogue Michel: AF 1584

Styracosaurus (Afghan postage stamp)

  Styracosaurus was a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Period (Campanian stage), about 75.5 to 75 million years ago. It had four to six long horns extending from its neck frill, a smaller horn on each of its cheeks, and a single horn protruding from its nose, which may have been up to 60 centimetres (2 ft) long and 15 centimetres (6 in) wide. The function or functions of the horns and frills have been debated for many years.

• Original Name: "Styracosaurus"
• Country: Afghanistan
• Year: 1988-06-06
• Series: Prehistorical Animals
• Perforation: comb 12 x 12¼
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 40 x 28 mm
• Face value: 5 ؋.
• Number of catalogue Michel: AF 1582

Mesosaurus (Afghan postage stamp)

  Mesosaurus (meaning "middle lizard") is an extinct genus of reptile from the Early Permian of southern Africa and South America. Along with the genera Brazilosaurus and Stereosternum, it is a member of the family Mesosauridae and the order Mesosauria. Mesosaurus was long thought to have been one of the first marine reptiles, although new data suggests that at least those of Uruguay inhabited a hypersaline water body, rather than a typical marine environment. In any case, it had many adaptations to a fully aquatic lifestyle. It is usually considered to have been anapsid, although Friedrich von Huene considered that it was synapsid, and this hypothesis has been revived recently.

• Original Name: "Mesosaurus"
• Country: Afghanistan
• Year: 1988-06-06
• Series: Prehistorical Animals
• Perforation: comb 12 x 12¼
• Printing: Offset lithography
• Size: 28 x 40 mm
• Face value: 3 ؋.
• Number of catalogue Michel: AF 1581