This badger stamp is from a series of "The Red Book of Mammals of Belarus" which is a collection of animals that are rare and/or endangered. The book is updated every 10 years with the latest edition being in 2015. Badgers have been on the endangered list for 25 years.
The M on the stamp designates it as airmail postcard abroad.
for the letter B - Belarus, badger (barsuk in Russian)
Endangered in Belarus but being culled in England due their supposed link to bovine TB. My first memory of a badger was in a Rupert Bear cartoon strip in a newspaper when I was a boy.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful stamp.
Belarus often issues stamps with endangered species, I do appreciate that. And this is a triple match of a B you have here, Belarus, badger, barsuk! Wow :D
ReplyDeleteTo continue from Ana it might be a quadruple match for brock is the old English word for badger and why Beatrix Potter called her badger Mr Brock. Nice stamp showing those powerful claws.
ReplyDeleteThis is my first stop this week, and I feel that this badger stamp will be my favorite!
ReplyDeleteI thought of you immediately when I first saw the stamp :)
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