Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Set of postage stamps "Sport Fishing" Part.2

  Coryphaena hippurus Linneo, original name in Spanish: Dorado. Coryphaena is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes known as the dolphinfishes. This genus is currently the only known genus in its family. The species in this genus have compressed heads and single dorsal fins that run the entire length of the fishes' bodies.
  Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes, original name in Spanish: Sabalo. The Atlantic tarpon inhabits coastal waters, estuaries, lagoons, and rivers. Tarpons feed almost exclusively on schooling fish and occasionally crabs.
  Acanthocybium solandri (Cuvier), original name in Spanish: Peto. Wahoo is a scombrid fish found worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas. It is best known to sports fishermen, as its speed and high-quality flesh make it a prize game fish. In Hawaii, the wahoo is known as ono. Many Hispanic areas of the Caribbean and Central America refer to this fish as peto.
  Makaira ampla (Poey), original name in Spanish: Castero. The Atlantic blue marlin is a species of marlin endemic to the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic blue marlin feeds on a wide variety of organisms near the surface. It uses its bill to stun, injure, or kill while knifing through a school of fish or other prey, then returns to eat the injured or stunned fish.
  • Series: Sport Fishing
  • Country: Republic of Cuba
  • Year: 1971-10-30
  • Perforation: line 12½
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Size: 50 x 30 mm
  • Face value: 4, 5, 13, 30 ¢
  • Number of catalogue Michel: CU 1724-1727

Set of postage stamps "Sport Fishing" Part.1

  Albula vulpes (Linneo), original name in Spanish: Macabi. The bonefish is the type species of the bonefish family (Albulidae), the only family in order Albuliformes.
  Seriola species, original name in Spanish: Coronado. Seriola is a genus of bony fish, commonly known as amberjacks. They are a large, carnivorous finfish popularly known for the firm texture and rich flavour of their flesh, which make them an ideal fish for aquaculture.
  Micropterus salmoides, original name in Spanish: Lobina. The largemouth bass is a freshwater gamefish in the sunfish family, a species of black bass native to North America.
  • Series: Sport Fishing
  • Country: Republic of Cuba
  • Year: 1971-10-30
  • Perforation: line 12½
  • Printing: Offset lithography
  • Size: 50 x 30 mm
  • Face value: 1, 2, 3 ¢
  • Number of catalogue Michel: CU 1721-1723

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Eugene Delacroix (Set of USSR Postcards, 1959)

  Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.

  • Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France (Location: Louvre, Paris, France).

  • Liberty Leading the People, 1830 (fragment).

  • Woman with a Parrot, 1827 (Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Lyon, France).
  • Arab Comedians, 1848 (Location: Museum of Fine Arts of Tours, Tours, France).

  • Saint Georges fighting with the Dragon, 1854 (Location: Museum of Grenoble, Grenoble, France).
  • Lion Hunt in Morocco, 1854 (Location: State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia).

  • Marocan and his horse, 1855 (Location: State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia).

  • The Death of Ophelia, 1843 (Location: Private Collection).

  • Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard, 1843 (Location: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France).

  • The Scene in Auerbach's Cellar.

  • Country: USSR
  • Year: 1959
  • Subject: Art
  • Impression: 50 000

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Set of postage stamps "Fishes" (Burundi) Part.3

  Scarus guacamaia is the largest parrotfish in the Atlantic, reaching a maximum size in excess of 100 cm. It is relatively widespread in the western Atlantic from Bermuda through south Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean to Venezuela.
  Priacanthus arenatus; habitat: benthic on coral reefs and rocky bottoms, generally occurring at depths of 15-75 m (exceptionally to 200 m) in small aggregations.
  John Dory, St Pierre or Peter's Fish, refers to fish of the genus Zeus, especially Zeus faber, of widespread distribution. It is an edible benthic coastal marine fish with a laterally compressed olive-yellow body which has a large dark spot, and long spines on the dorsal fin.
  The gray angelfish or gray angelfish (Pomacanthus arcuatus) is a large angelfish of the family Pomacanthidae, found in the western Atlantic from New England to the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and also the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean, including the Antilles.
  The ocean surgeon or ocean surgeonfish (Acanthurus bahianus) is a tropical fish known to live in reefs in the Atlantic Ocean.
  The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis, (Lactophrys quadricornis) belongs to the Ostraciidae family and is closely related to boxfish and trunkfish.
  The queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris) is an angelfish commonly found near reefs in the warmer sections of the western Atlantic Ocean. Other common names include blue angelfish, golden angelfish, queen angel, and yellow angelfish.
  Balistes vetula, the queen triggerfish or old wife, is a reef dwelling triggerfish found in the Atlantic Ocean. It is occasionally caught as a gamefish, and sometimes kept in marine aquaria.
  • Series: Fishes
  • Country: Republic of Burundi
  • Year: 1974
  • Emission: Commemorative, Air mail
  • Perforation: line 13½
  • Printing: Photogravure
  • Size: 70 x 70 mm
  • Face value: 6, 26, 11, 31 Burundi francs 
  • Number of catalogue Michel: BI 1050-1057, BI 1101-1108

Set of postage stamps "Fishes" (Burundi) Part.2

  Tilapia melanopleura, the Redbelly tilapia, Tilapia zillii, is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family. It is found widely in numerous African and Eurasian countries, both as aquarium fish and food fish.
  The leopard bush fish (Ctenopoma acutirostre), also known as leopard bushfish, spotted ctenopoma, leopard ctenopoma, spotted climbing perch, spotted leaf fish, African leaf fish, spotted cichlid or spotted bushfish, is a freshwater fish.
  Aphyosemion bivittatum (twostripe lyretail, two-banded killi, red lyretail) is a species of freshwater fish belonging to the Nothobranchiidae family. It is found in rivers in southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon.
  Synodontis angelicus is a species of upside-down catfish commonly named polka-dot African catfish or angel squeaker. This species is native to the Congo Basin of Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo.
  Monodactylus argentus, a perciform fish in the Monodactylidae family, is usually found in the Red Sea and East Africa to Samoa, north to the Yaeyama Islands, south to New Caledonia and Australia.
  The Moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus), is a marine fish species, the sole extant representative of the family Zanclidae (from the Greek ζαγκίος, zagkios, "oblique") in order Perciformes.
  The royal angelfish or regal angelfish, Pygoplites diacanthus, is a species of marine angelfish of the family Pomacanthidae, and the monotypic genus Pygoplites. It is found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceans.
  Cephalopholis argus, also known as: roi, bluespotted grouper, argus grouper, peacock hind, peacock grouper or peacock rockcod is a fish from the Indo-Pacific which is variously a commercial gamefish, an invasive species and occasionally an aquarium resident.
  • Series: Fishes
  • Country: Republic of Burundi
  • Year: 1974
  • Emission: Commemorative, Air mail
  • Perforation: line 13½
  • Printing: Photogravure
  • Size: 70 x 70 mm
  • Face value: 3, 17, 5, 24 Burundi francs 
  • Number of catalogue Michel: BI 1042-1049, BI 1093-1100

Set of postage stamps "Fishes" (Burundi) Part.1

  The Egyptian mouthbrooder (Pseudocrenilabrus multicolor) is a species of cichlid. This small mouthbrooder reaches about 8 cm (3.1 in) in length, and is found in rivers, lakes, and other freshwater habitats in Eastern Africa from Egypt and as far south as Tanzania.
  The freshwater butterflyfish or African butterflyfish, Pantodon buchholzi, is the only species in the family Pantodontidae within the order Osteoglossiformes.
  Tropheus duboisi, the white spotted cichlid, is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika. It can reach a length of 12 cm (4.7 in).
  The six-banded distichodus or sixbar distichodus (Distichodus sexfasciatus) is a species of fish in the Distichodontidae family.
  Polycentropsis abbreviata, the African leaffish, is a species of Asian leaffish native to fresh waters of western Africa.
  Pelvicachromis pulcher (Pelmatochromius kribensis) is a freshwater fish of the cichlid family, endemic to Nigeria and Cameroon.
  The African jewelfish (Hemichromis bimaculatus), also known as jewel cichlid or jewelfish, is from the family cichlidae.
  Nannaethiops tritaeniatus is a genus of distichodontid fishes found in Africa.
  • Series: Fishes
  • Country: Republic of Burundi
  • Year: 1974
  • Emission: Commemorative, Air mail
  • Perforation: line 13½
  • Printing: Photogravure
  • Size: 70 x 70 mm
  • Face value: 1, 10, 2, 14 Burundi francs 
  • Number of catalogue Michel: BI 1034-1041, BI 1085-1092