Prof. Indraneil Das, an ecologist and herpetologist with an interest in philately who works at the University of Malaysia Sarawak, recently sent me a copy of an interesting poster which he and a colleague produced for the recent Wallace conference in Sarawak about postage stamps featuring Wallace. Neil has kindly agreed that I can share it on this website - please see below. For a much easier to read pdf version click HERE.
I have written about Wallace stamps on this blog before - see:
http://wallacefund.info/first-ever-postage-stamps-featuring-alfred-russel-wallace-are-published
http://wallacefund.info/r-wallace-be-featured-british-stamp
http://wallacefund.info/stamp-featuring-alfred-russel-wallace-published
It would seem that the UK stamp issued in 2010 is the only 'real' postage stamp (i.e. one intended for actual postal use) ever produced which features Wallace. This is sad considering that over one hundred stamps have been issued which feature Darwin!
It always amuses me to think that my name appears on a set of Darwin stamps issued by Portugal!
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