I was in the process of looking for something else and became sidetracked. What else is new?
I read an article that the U.S. Postal service is in the red — big time. Then, somehow, I ran across a stamp from another country and my search took a hard left turn.
This caused me to print a list of ALL the countries in the world. There are 196, if you count Taiwan (and many people do not), sovereign countries. I began a search by country. I was surprised, I was also forced to limit my goal.
My goal, you ask? To find postal stamps, issued by country, which had dogs on them.
I know this is not an earth-shattering goal as pertains to dogs, however, it was fun, enlightening, and I discovered some incredible stamps. Many are truly beautiful. Overall I found Poland to have a series that is/was wonderful, though there are a few individually issued stamps from other countries that I would love to enlarge and use as art-of-the-dog.
I found very few countries that did not have stamps with dogs on them, though I will admit I stopped perusing by country and chose these to be posted. I found a few I would not have expected to issue stamps, but did. I quickly came to the realization that I could not spend the time finding, nor had the space to publish, one stamp per country, thus limiting came into play.
I’ve decided to throw them onto this blog so that you may enjoy them, too. Here they are in alphabetical order by country name.
Boxer Afghanistan
Dachshund — Angola
Kelpie — Australia
Australian Cattle Dog, Beagle, Border collie — Australia
Spaniel – Belarus
Bouvier des Flandres — Belgium
St. Bernard — Benin
Schipperke — Bermuda
Bosnian Mountain Dog also known as Tornjak — Bosnia
Pointer — Bulgaria
Schipperke — Burundi
Mastiff — Cambodia
Karelian Bear dog, Nova Scotia duck trolling dog, Canadian Eskimo dog, Newfoundland — Canada — great stamps
Wirehaired Fox terrier — Cape Verde Islands
Staffordshire Terrier — Chad
Bavarian Hunting Dog — Czechoslovakia
Pick Up The Poop — Denmark
Wolfhound — Dhufar
Battersea Rescue, England
Schnauzer — Finland
sled dogs — Greenland (one of my favorites)
Border collie, Briard, Great Dane, Afghan — Grenada
Cairn terrier – Guinea (formerly French Guinea)
The Icelandic sheepdog. Other names, Icelandic Spitz Iceland Dog Íslenskur fjárhundur — Iceland
Celtic image of dog — Ireland
Akita — Japan
Sharplaninec (Macedonian Shepherd) — Macedonia
Setter and pointer – Monaco
Chocolate Labrador, German shepherd, Jack Russell terrier, Golden retriever, Huntaway — New Zealand
Border collie – New Zealand
Hound — Poland
Boston terrier — Republic of the Congo
Borzoi — Russia
сибирская лайка, “Siberian husky” — Ukraine
Owney the Postal dog (historical) — U.S.
French bulldog pup — Uzbekistan
These are really great. I can see how you would be captivated for hours & hours. I would also like to have some as art work on my walls.
Thanks for sharing.
What a fantastic research project! Thank you making the images available, Susan.
I have lots more I filed away. Tiny islands, such as Tuvalu and Christmas Island, have some really nice ones. Who would have thought?
Oh my gosh. Its interesting to see which dogs some countries picked. You’re right, who would have thought!
You miss identified the Bosnian dog, its actually the Bosnian Mountain Dog also known as Tornjak.
Thanks for the correction on the Bosnian stamp. I’ve changed it.