Topic: Stamps: Thematic exhibit

🦁🦉🐘 Fun and Knowledge via the Animal Kingdom 🐒🦢🐍

One more gem from my father’s thematic stamp exhibits…these are just a few of the 20+ sheets.

Using stamps from around the world, he combined Animals’ Cries and English Idioms of Comparison into a fascinating educational display.

📚 An Ape gibbbers
🐻 A Bear growls
🐍 A Snake hisses
🐺 A Wolf howls
🦢 A Swan cries

and

🦁 As brave as a lion
🦉 As wise as an owl
🐑 As gentle as a lamb
🦚 As proud as a peacock
🐘 As strong in memory as an elephant

Long before Google and Wikipedia, stamp collecting encouraged children to explore animals, language, geography and general knowledge through curiosity and discovery.

As I digitize my father’s award-winning collections, I continue to be amazed by the imagination and educational value packed into these handmade exhibit pages.

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