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Cat Postmarks 2

This is a page of cat cancellations for special occasions, mostly to mark the issuing of some new cat stamps
or to commemorate an event such as a cat show or an anniversary. More will follow later.


Graz, Austria, 17.10.1991 Release of stamp honouring modern artist Rudolf Pointner	Keerbergen, Belgium, 1.4.2000 Stamp Day — 'To read and to write, that is life'	Sofia, Bulgaria, 26.12.1989 First day of cat-stamps set	Sofia, Bulgaria, 25.5.1998 First day of another cat-stamps set

Kampuchea, 3.3.1988 (now Cambodia) First day of cat-stamps set	Havana, Cuba, 25.3.2005 First day of cat-stamps set	Helsinki, Finland, 28.2.1998 'Postikortin' is postcards — an exhibition, or postcard fair?	Nantes, France, 6.11.1999 'Phil'Atlantique' stamp exhibition

Strasbourg, France, 22/23.3.1996 'Le Chat' — 15th anniversary of postal cards	Catton, Hexham, Great Britain, 10.8.1993 'Tom Kitten', Beatrix Potter anniversary	Letterston, Haverfordwest, Great Britain, 26.2.1996 Greetings cancellation	Essen, Germany, 3.6.2004 One-day cancellation for first day of issue of cat stamps and 'Thematika '04' stamp exhibition

Bayreuth, Germany, 1977 'Bayreuth to Frankfurt: a cat's jump for local air traffic'	Paris, France, 1979 One of various anti-litter slogans — 'To clean up is good: not to litter is better'	Gien, France, 29.11.1997 Cat-show cancellation	Douglas, Isle of Man, 14.3.1996 First day of 'Manx Cats around the World' stamps

Dublin, Ireland, 6.9.2007 First day of 'Celtic Cats' stamps (Baile Átha Cliath is the Irish name for Dublin)	Rome, Italy, 12.4.1986 Cancellation for international cat show	Japan, 22.12.2006 Christmas cancellation	Jersey, Channel Islands, 5.4.1994 First day of stamps for 21st anniversary of Jersey Cat Club

Luxembourg, 1976 'To like animals is good; to protect them is better'. (These look like the animals from the Bremen Town Musicians story.)	Balti, Moldova, 20.06.2007 First day of cat-stamp set	Monaco, 8.11.1978 'Puss in Boots' — first day of stamps showing Perrault's fairy tales	Den Haag, Netherlands, 10.11.1999 First day of Children's Welfare stamps for 1999

Netherlands Antilles, 29.9.1995 First day of cat-stamps set	Bucharest, Romania, 24.5.1993 First day of cat-stamps set	Moscow, Russia, 21.3.1996 First day of cat-stamps set	Berne, Switzerland, 26.11.1996 First day of stamps showing winning designs in a competition run by the Swiss postal administration

Sobrio, Switzerland, 1990 The cat head forms part of the coat-of-arms of the Swiss town of Sobrio	Kerguelen, French Southern and Antarctic Territories, 25.12.2003 Cat research programme 'Pop Chat'	Rockhill, NY, United States, 6.10.1995 'Stamp Collecting is the Cat's Meow'	Hanoi, Vietnam, 6.1.1999 First day of stamps for Tet holiday and start of Year of the Cat (traditional lunar new-year festival)

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is a gallery of cancellations from places with names containing the word 'cat'

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Our featured feline: Chico (at the head of the page) belonged to a lady in the Swiss village of Chesières who lived near the ground-floor office where I worked. Every so often he liked to pass by, spend a little time with us and check that we were doing things properly (1985)

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