Feline Philatelic Materials

Postal Label, "Postcheque en Girodiesnst" (Postal Check & Payment Service)
with Lions Rampant
Netherlands, ca. 1970

From the collection of Frederick L. Freeman

Registered air mail letter posted on June 29, 1954 from Rangoon, Burma,
franked by meter stamps with images of chinthe, lion-like mythological guardians.
    Letter was sent from The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and
    China  to the National City Bank of New York. 
A handstamp shows that it was delivered at 1:30 p.m. on July 2, 1954.
                                                             

From the collection and exhibit of Greg Balagian








 

ADVERTISING COVERS

Chicago-Kenosha Hosiery Company, Black Cat Brand
Mailed from Kenosha, Wisconsin to St. Marys, Pennsylvania on June 21, 1910

From the collection of Mary Ann Brown








    
 








  

    












J. Fox
(Note: The animal above the name is a leopard!)
Mailed from New York City, New York on February 9, 1940

From the collection of Shaun Stevens







































Katz & Klumpp Printers
Metered Postcard with Cat's Head
(Note: katze means cat in German.)
Mailed from Gernsbach to Luneburg-Hagen, Germany
July 5, 1929

From the collection of Marci Jarvis 

Souvenir Sheet
Black-footed Cat, Felis nigripes, on stamp & in selvage
Namibia, 1997






























Local Post
Symbolic Lion (Panthera leo)
Mogador to Agidir, Morocco, 1899

Se-tenant pair, Continuous Design
From a booklet pane, each the international rate.
Mother Cat & Kittens
Finland, 1995

Semi-Postal
Domestic Cat
80 centimes postage + 15 centimes to the Red Cross
France, 1974

































Local Precancel: Erie, Pennsylvania (PA)
 on a 1925 Lexington-Concord Commemorative
(Note: Erie is Iroquoian for "long tail," referring to a wild cat.)

Overprint on Post Card, 1897 : Arms of the Republic with a Lion Arms, Die Type 4
Postmarked August 3, 1898
Half Penny Domestic Rate
Republic of the Orange Free State




























Air Mail
Tiger (Panthera tigris)
From the set, "Cats of the Havana Zoo"
Cuba, 1977

 







 



First Day Cover
Ocelot (Felis pardalis) on Stamp, Pictorial Postmark, & Cachet
El Salvador, December 23, 1988
World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)





























Plate Block
Lion of Finland, Lion Rampant
Finland Independence 1917-1967
United States, 1967

MAXIMUM CARDS





Maximum Card
Computer-generated Post Card + Stamp + Cat Place Cancel
Florida Panther (Puma concolor coryi)
Postmarked June 9, 2007
Panther, West Virginia, U. S. A.

Maximum Card Issued By Slovakia Post
 Post Card + Stamp + Pictorial Postmark
First Day of Issue: June 25, 2003
European Wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris) 

Handmade Maximum Card
Postcard + Stamp + Cat Place Cancel
Siamese Cat (Felis catus)
Postmarked on October 25, 1988
Cat Creek, Montana
United States

Postal Card with Indicium & Cachet
(Note: Indicia are preprinted onto the card.) 
Cheetah Family (Acinonyx jubatus)
Southwest Africa






















Postage Due, From a Set of Five
Republic of Dahomey, 1963
(Note: Dahomey became People's Republic of Benin in 1965.)






















Surcharge: 70 fr on 300fr
 and Inscription Error: Cheetah, not a Leopard
Republic of Cameroun, 1992

















 

Pictorial Postmark: 'Cat'n Around Festival,' Catskill, New York

Read about the "Cat'n Around Festival" in the August edition of Cat Mews,
newsletter of the Cats On Stamps Study Unit.

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