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For a long time I wondered why there was a cat in the lower right corner of the stamp. It turns out that Lindbergh had a kitten named Patsy, but didn't take it on his flight from New York to Paris because it was "too dangerous," he told reporters in Paris.
I'm thinking that I might (eventually) get around to creating a web page featuring postage-stamp "firsts" in my collection: the Spanish Lindbergh stamp, the world's first stamp to show a scientific representation of a constellation, and the first to feature an airplane. I have others, as well: the first stamps to be based on astrophotos.
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A great stamp!
Need more cat stamps? I can help.
I collect domestic cats on stamps.
For all of you that think that is funny, think about this. My girlfriend works on that collection and the Indonesia collection with me. When I say "Stamp Show" she says "When are we going?"
How many of you can say that of your wife or girlfriend? Phil B. is the only one I know, as Jopie collects staps, too. Bobgggggg's wife just uells at him and says "You bought more stamps! You bought more stamps!"
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Thanks for the offer, David G., but I'll pass. While I accept cats as people — rather disturbed, psychopathic people, along the lines of Red Dwarf's Cat (see image), but people nevertheless, I don't collect cats-on-stamps. However, I would rather collect cats-on-stamps than stamps-on-cats.
Besides which, cats and stamp collecting are mutually exclusive. I once was given a box of off-paper worldwide stamps which had been "collected" in a house that featured an angora cat. It appeared that all of the hair that cat had shed ended up mixed in with the stamps. Took me hours to separate the hair from the stamps, but finally I could toss out the stamps and mount the cat hair in my album! 
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"While I accept cats as people "
Cats are not people.. they're demon spawn sent here to torture us
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An interesting description, Anglophile. I'll have to admit that I hadn't considered the design from the same angle, but it works, although my inner journalist wants to pare it down to 25 words!
Your post took me back to the stamp for another look, and I noticed this: Three of the four main elements of the design (Lindy, the Spirit of St. Louis, and the cat are all facing or at least turning eastward, while the Statue of Liberty is facing southeast and doesn't seem to be at all engaged by the flight, but she is certainly "lighting the way". Speculation: What would the stamp look like if Lindbergh's flight had gone from Paris to New York?
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" ... Speculation: What would the stamp look like if Lindbergh's flight had gone from Paris to New York? ..."
Well the Spirit of St Louis would be going from right to left, instead of left to right, The stature of "La Liberté Éclairez Le Monde" would likely remain, and the nose of the airplane might have been pointed downward which would symbolize the road from Paris to New York.
(Oh shucks, now I've insulted New York City.)
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Perhaps the Eiffel Tower would have replaced the Statue of Liberty in a Paris-New York City commemorative stamp.
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My cat is always on stamps.
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I just learned today that a stamp that I've had in my collection for a long time is the first stamp to feature a cat! It's Spain C-56, a one-peso stamp printed by a private society and allowed by the Spanish post office to be used for three days, starting Sept. 30, 1930 at Seville. It's one of eight designs in an airmail set issued on the occasion of the Pro Union Ibero Americana, in English the Ibero-American Exposition or the Spanish-American Exposition. As you can see, the stamp commemorates the New York-Paris solo flight of Charles Lindbergh in 1927.
For a long time I wondered why there was a cat in the lower right corner of the stamp. It turns out that Lindbergh had a kitten named Patsy, but didn't take it on his flight from New York to Paris because it was "too dangerous," he told reporters in Paris.
I'm thinking that I might (eventually) get around to creating a web page featuring postage-stamp "firsts" in my collection: the Spanish Lindbergh stamp, the world's first stamp to show a scientific representation of a constellation, and the first to feature an airplane. I have others, as well: the first stamps to be based on astrophotos.
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Bob:
A great stamp!
Need more cat stamps? I can help.
I collect domestic cats on stamps.
For all of you that think that is funny, think about this. My girlfriend works on that collection and the Indonesia collection with me. When I say "Stamp Show" she says "When are we going?"
How many of you can say that of your wife or girlfriend? Phil B. is the only one I know, as Jopie collects staps, too. Bobgggggg's wife just uells at him and says "You bought more stamps! You bought more stamps!"
David Giles
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MEMBER: The Cats on Stamps Study Unit of the American Topical Association
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Thanks for the offer, David G., but I'll pass. While I accept cats as people — rather disturbed, psychopathic people, along the lines of Red Dwarf's Cat (see image), but people nevertheless, I don't collect cats-on-stamps. However, I would rather collect cats-on-stamps than stamps-on-cats.
Besides which, cats and stamp collecting are mutually exclusive. I once was given a box of off-paper worldwide stamps which had been "collected" in a house that featured an angora cat. It appeared that all of the hair that cat had shed ended up mixed in with the stamps. Took me hours to separate the hair from the stamps, but finally I could toss out the stamps and mount the cat hair in my album!
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"While I accept cats as people "
Cats are not people.. they're demon spawn sent here to torture us
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An interesting description, Anglophile. I'll have to admit that I hadn't considered the design from the same angle, but it works, although my inner journalist wants to pare it down to 25 words!
Your post took me back to the stamp for another look, and I noticed this: Three of the four main elements of the design (Lindy, the Spirit of St. Louis, and the cat are all facing or at least turning eastward, while the Statue of Liberty is facing southeast and doesn't seem to be at all engaged by the flight, but she is certainly "lighting the way". Speculation: What would the stamp look like if Lindbergh's flight had gone from Paris to New York?
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" ... Speculation: What would the stamp look like if Lindbergh's flight had gone from Paris to New York? ..."
Well the Spirit of St Louis would be going from right to left, instead of left to right, The stature of "La Liberté Éclairez Le Monde" would likely remain, and the nose of the airplane might have been pointed downward which would symbolize the road from Paris to New York.
(Oh shucks, now I've insulted New York City.)
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Perhaps the Eiffel Tower would have replaced the Statue of Liberty in a Paris-New York City commemorative stamp.
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My cat is always on stamps.
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