Maxicards / Maximum Cards / Maximaphily

John, I have animals and especially mammals on stamps/MCs from all over the world.
My goal is to exemplify on MCs every one of the 4,600+ species of mammals (or as many as I can). :)

http://s289.photobucket.com/albums/...s/Australia/



The Woolly Mammoth MC is simply postmarked at the temporary United States Postal Service (USPS, of course) booth at the philatelic exposition CAPEX from Canada. :) USPS had chosen that day and place for the First Day of Issue. Being a USPS booth in Canada only makes it more interesting for collectors. :)

I am still looking for Australian partners to create with me or for me MCs with all those marsupials (echidna, platypus, various species of kangaroos, etc.):)

That cancel is the Israel Post Office cancel on all (mostly) their First Day Covers. I have one or two from Londonbus1 but have slowed down on the whole idea a bit lately. Or is it my brain slowing. hard to tell.

Lovely Leopard Dorin and quote John. Wisdom of the ages.

That was a blank index card, 10x15cm, onto which I put that stamp, got it postmarked by "philatelic mail-back", and then I glued that cut-out from a book, showing a cool "sectioned" view (how is that called?) of a beaver's dwelling.

So I created a UNICATE/UNIKAT, custom, non-traditional maximum card with a very representative view about the beaver, capturing the ESSENCE, the BOTTOM LINE, the SPIRIT of that subject - the beaver species.
I love it! :)

The backside, where that cut-out continues, and I also glued another image with text.


The creative side of philately/maximaphily.

This is the biggest elephant (taxidermied trophy) ever hunted and preserved.


Mastodon, a species already vanished.

Love the beaver card. Nice cut out, or sectioned view, I think that's correct, sounds right.

I saw a beaver and beaver mound? when young across a pond in the country. Fascinating now their minds work to have all that in them or learn from their parents or kin perhaps?

Trying to find a few unusual older ones from my collection.

1977


1979

San Marino 1985

Not sure if it was an error but the cancel was put on upsidedown.

British Philatelic Expo Oct 1985, London.
San Marino - translates - 'San Marino in its stamps' .......

Amazing that they managed to use the cancel up-side-down. (twice!). Plus they used a real stamp 'Biennial of Photographic Art', for the maxicard element which also seems rather odd. Whatever - I really like it for its peculiarities, and if I ever get a chance to buy one with the cancel the correct way up, I will get it to make an unmatched pair.

A maxicard from Romania: The Carpathian Shepherd Dog (Ciob#259;nesc Românesc Carpatin) is a breed of large sheep dogs that originated in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpat...Shepherd_Dog

My realization of some days ago: stamp of Slovenia on a vintage postcard from Poland, White-backed Woodpecker, postmarked Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 22 november 2013.

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Greta Garbo maximum card.

Arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) WWF maxicard from Finland.

Next time, I'll bring my StazOn inkpads (black; red) to the post office...