Show Your "Fossilized Stamps" - Fossils On Stamps And Covers

Oyster and Fern fossils, issued by North Korea on May 15, 1995.

Karl Ernst von Baer (1792 – 1876) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society, and the first president of the Russian Entomological Society, making him one of the most distinguished Baltic German scientists.

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Estonian Naturalist's Society, Estonia issued in 2003 a postal stationary postcard with printed stamp shows von Bear. the cachet shows turtle and Ammonite fossils.

The printed stamp on the postal stationary.

The back of the postcard shows different silhouette of creatures among them fossils of trilobite, ammonite and shell. I had to scan it is high contrast in order to get visible scan.

Fossils from Liechtenstein, designed by Heinz Preute, combined photogravure and engraved (the fossil image) by Wolfgang Seidel and issued by Liechtenstein on November 22, 2004.

- Ammonite Fossil
- Sea Urchin Fossil
- Shark's Tooth Fossil




FDC with nice Ammonite fossil on the side cachet but with rather boring postmark.

Plant fossil Livistona palibinii, issued by USSR on June 20, 1973 to publicize the XII International Botanical Congress held in Leningrad. The fossil is on the top of the congress logo.

In addition to the stamp, a postal stationary postcard was issued. The plant fossil is depicted both on the imprinted stamp and on the cachet.

One of my best covers in my paleontology collection is the FDC issued by the USSR on August 15, 1990. The stamps show reconstructions of prehistoric animals exhibited in Paleontological Museum of Moscow named after Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov (1893-1966), a Russian paleontologist. The reconstructions based on fossils founded in the USSR.

The cover was sent registered from Moscow to Israel. Note the side cachet of the cover shows Ammonite fossil exhibited in the museum.


Fossil display at the museum.