Isn't a beautiful pink (sort of) the most appropriate background color for a stamp with a BEAST like the Wild Boar (Sus scrofa)? Romanian maxicard showing a DIORAMA. The first one, by Akeley, showed TAXIDERMIED BEAVERS. Don't try this at home! Zoological expertise is necessary

"Full size dioramas

A diorama in the Museum of Natural history in Milan (Italy).

Modern museum dioramas may be seen in most major natural history museums. Typically, these displays use a tilted plane to represent what would otherwise be a level surface, incorporate a painted background of distant objects, and often employ false perspective, carefully modifying the scale of objects placed on the plane to reinforce the illusion through depth perception in which objects of identical real-world size placed farther from the observer appear smaller than those closer. Often the distant painted background or sky will be painted upon a continuous curved surface so that the viewer is not distracted by corners, seams, or edges. All of these techniques are means of presenting a realistic view of a large scene in a compact space. A photograph or single-eye view of such a diorama can be especially convincing since in this case there is no distraction by the binocular perception of depth.

Carl Akeley, a naturalist, sculptor, and taxidermist, is credited with creating the first ever habitat diorama in 1889. Akeley's diorama featured taxidermied beavers in a three-dimensional habitat with a realistic, painted background."  

[MY NOTE:  Are you contemplating the idea of creating your own DIORAMA with TAXIDERMIED BEAVERS, or BOARS, or what-have-you? Don't try this at home! Zoological expertise is necessary!]

"With the support of curator Frank M. Chapman, Akeley designed the popular habitat dioramas featured at the American Museum of Natural History. Combining art with science, these exhibitions were intended to educate the public about the growing need for habitat conservation."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diorama

Probably the first museum in the world to display more than 1 diorama, and to perfect the process further:
http://www.antipa.ro/stiati_ca_1.php

Can you access this virtual tour? If not, check again those few radio buttons, and gain access!

http://www.antipa.ro/ptur.php

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