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Horse stamp

Philatelists interested in a particular subject are very exciting and exceptional people. They collect specific postage stamps, covers, post cards, postmarks and other types of philatelic goods.

A lot of people all over the world like horses. This is the reason why so many collectors choose this subject for their collections. Every single collector determines his own collection strategy: focus his attention on specific postage items or products from specific countries and so on. Searching of a particular horse stamp requires a lot of time and energy. It is a very interesting and respectworthy work.

Horse stamps are issued in great number of countries. For example, Namibia issued Additional to Wild Horses Of Namibia stamp on July 3, 2009:horse-stamp-7

A set of 2 stamps called Sable Island Horse and Peregrine Falcon was issued on November 11, 2011, by Canada:
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Postage stamp issue quite often comes along with the issuing of some additional products. For example, a souvenir sheet is an interesting philatelic item, which underlines all advantages of the stamp.

Thus, Animals of Montserrat souvenir sheet was issued on June 6, 2011, in Montserrat:horse-stamp-6

September 1, 2011, Ireland issued Irish Horse souvenir sheet. Each of four stamps in this set is a horse stamp:
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Quite often postal administrations issue a First Day Cover (FDC). Collectors may be interested in such products as well because it usually includes not only a horse stamp, but an interesting appropriate postmark. The cover can be also properly designed.

For example, Horses FDC was issued on October 27, 2004, in Belarus:horse-stamp-1

This FDC looks like a perfect whole: cover and stamps contain images of horses, while postmark is horse-shaped.

June 11, 2009, Portugal issued Lusitan Horse FDC with an interesting postmark (horseman):horse-stamp-8

There are several kinds of collections devoted to horse stamps, one of them is horseracing. For example, Belarus issued stamps souvenir sheet and FDC called Horse riding on June 12, 2011:
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Collecting of stamps and other postage items on a particular subject requires a lot of time and energy, especially if collector wants a particular horse stamp. We share collectors’ passion for beautiful horses and believe we will be very helpful in such difficult yet interesting work.