Czech Republic (Czechia) 1999 "Joachim Barrande and Czech Trilobites"


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Issue Date 23.06.1999
ID Michel: 221-222; Scott: 3094a-3094b; Stanley Gibbons: 242; Yvert et Tellier: 216-217; Category: pP
Design Graphic designer: Jan Kavan
Engraver: Milo Ondrcek
Stamps in set 2
Values 13 CZK - the portrait of the French geologist and paleontologist J. Barrande (1799 - 1883)
31 CZK - different kinds of trilobites: Deiphon forbesi, Ophioceras simplex, Carolicrinus barrndei
Top right tab: Eudolatites dubius, crinoid, Guerichina strangulata, Dendrograptus klouceki
Bottom left tab: Placoparia barrandei, Pompeckium kuthami, Tropidodiscus pusillus
Emission/Type commemorative
Places of issue Prague
Size (width x height) 40mm x 26mm
Layout Minis sheets of 2 stamps and 2 tabs
Products FDC x2
Paper
Perforation 11.5 x 11.75
Print Technique recess print from flat plate in yellow, blue, green, dark green and red
Printed by Post Printing House
Quantity
Issuing Authority Czech Post
JOACHIM BARRANDE AND CZECH TRILOBITES on stamps of Czech Republic 1999

Joachim Barrande (1799 - 1883), was a French geologist and palaeontologist, whose attention was attracted to the fossils from the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Bohemia (Czech Republic).
For ten years (1840-1850) he made a detailed study of these rocks, engaging workmen specially to collect fossils, and in this way he obtained upwards of 3500 species of graptolites, graptolites, brachiopods, molluscs, trilobites, and fish. He was a fervent advocate of the theory of the catastrophes (as taught by Georges Cuvier), thus opposing Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Barrande's book described more than 4,000 fossil species, and it continues to be used as a reference book today.



Products and associated philatelic items

FDC (clean and circulated) Example of circulated covers
JOACHIM BARRANDE AND CZECH TRILOBITES on stamps of Czech Republic 1999 JOACHIM BARRANDE AND CZECH TRILOBITES on used covers of Czech Republic JOACHIM BARRANDE AND CZECH TRILOBITES on used covers of Czech Republic
First-Day-of-Issue Postmarks
Trilobite on commemorative postmark of Czech Republic 1999 Ammonite on commemorative postmark of Czech Republic 1999





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Acknowledgement:
Many thanks to Dr. Peter Voice, PhD Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Western Michigan University, USA, for his help in finding information and for review of a draft of this article.

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