Some time ago, Smash sent me this great envelope with a vintage stamp titled Synthetic Fuels, from a set of 4 designed by Charley Harper.
I have not received the others, however one of them is titled Fossil Fuels, and features the extinct trilobite.
Trilobites were marine arthropods, and had well-developed exoskeletons, which are readily fossilized. Over 17,000 species have been identified, and they were diverse in their biological niches.
Oooh, I love that trilobite stamp!
ReplyDeleteA pity that he/she has been extincted. Fortunately there still is a small 'trilobite'-like creature (woodlouse) around.
(Also the design is one of my favourites, I like the combination of brown, black and blue and the simple design - and flora/fauna :-) )
Classic Harper design for sure.
DeleteCool stamps and great envelope.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my favorite envelopes of all time. Smash is a genius.
DeleteClever you, I hadn't thought about the deep past, the stamp looks as though the trilobite could still be scuttling about.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I didn't want to recycle my insect post from the past, then I remembered this stamp.
DeleteI love how excited Heleen is about this stamp.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about trilobites. He's cute, in a small dinosaur kind of way.
Some stamps (many, or even most, I guess) are worth getting excited about.
DeleteThank you for your kind words, Violetsky! As a child we had a book about prehistoric animals, and (besides triceratops, eohippus and sabre tooth tiger of which realistic illustrations were shown) a fossile trilobite was pictured, and I was fascinated by this weird creature. I vagely remember 'meeting' a trilobite in my fantasy (similar to how nowadays people can be happy to face a kind/funny looking turtle), but just decades later I learned that trilobites lived down in the seas. So, apart from the different eras, a meeting would have been impossible :-)
ReplyDeleteI knew you were a sea creature, Heleen!
DeleteI took geology as a subsidiary subject at University. The trilobite was the very first fossil we learnt about.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that trilobites were so diversely adapted until putting this post together. They were pretty amazing creatures.
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