Sunday Stamps - May 31, 2026
Sunday Stamps brings us the letter R this week. Nothing unusual about these first two R animals. I just think they are particularly pretty stamps. R ooster designed and engraved by Albert Decaris. The Gallic r ooster is a long-standing symbol of France, representing pride, vigilance, national identity, and the dawn of a new day. From the mid-1960s onwards the stamps were printed with phosphorescent bars for automatic sorting, and these show up under UV light. France 1962 R hinoceros, Black R hino French Equatorial Africa 1947 R ufous Crowned R oller Ghana c. 1967 R accoon Dog, of which there were seven species, but only two now exist, including this, the Japanese R accoon Dog. Japan 2016 S stamps are up next week.