AMERICAN ALLIGATOR MAXIMUM CARD #3, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE PICTORIAL POSTMARK, NAPLES, FL

Again, nobody HAS to buy anything, but I'm just sharing some information, if you want to take a look.

This is my listing at delcampe for this item; all the other items are usually available for viewing by clicking the title of the posts on this blog.

"- Condition: uncirculated freestyle/ non-traditional/ non-FIP Maximum Card; the postcard is a large page from a book.  To me, this kind of page is  the ULTIMATE EDUCATIONAL POSTCARD, and it is much more visible this way, than if it were on a tiny, regular 4x6 inches postcard.
Besides, I have never seen such an educational image on a commercial, mass-produced postcard. Or any other postcard.
All you need to know about American alligator, complete with image comparison with the American crocodile, so you do not confuse them.

- Year:  the beautiful First Day of Issue pictorial postmark is dated October 4, 2006.
- Catalog value: I created only ONE!  Most probably, it is the ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD!

The reptile is the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). The stamp is part of the Southern Florida Wetland series. Most of that area is in the Everglades National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS).

BONUS: on the back, you have the educational page about  a bird - the White-Fronted Bee-Eater (Merops bullockoides).  Now you see why I did not cover the back? :) "

AMERICAN ALLIGATOR MAXIMUM CARD #4, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE PICTORIAL POSTMARK, NAPLES, FL

Not all youngsters live on (off?) the back of their parents.
Baby alligator rides on mom's nose.

AMERICAN ALLIGATOR MAXIMUM CARD #5, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE PICTORIAL POSTMARK, NAPLES, FL

Again, the term of comparison for this large page made into a postcard is the Everglades 4x6 inches postcard.

AMERICAN ALLIGATOR MAXIMUM CARD #6, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE PICTORIAL POSTMARK, NAPLES, FLORIDA

A different position of the stamp and postmark. Without the white mailing address label, maybe you would have stared in frustration, trying to decipher the pictorial postmark.

AMERICAN ALLIGATOR MAXIMUM CARD #7, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE PICTORIAL POSTMARK, NAPLES, FL

The reptile is the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). The stamp is part of the Southern Florida Wetland series. Most of that area is in the Everglades National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS).
This close-up portrait image shows stunning details,  impossible to see on a regular postcard.

This is a large page made into a postcard.

AMERICAN ALLIGATOR MAXIMUM CARD #8, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE PICTORIAL POSTMARK, NAPLES, FLORIDA

The reptile is the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). The stamp is part of the Southern Florida Wetland series. Most of that area is in the Everglades National Park, Florida, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS). To put things into perspective, this image also shows the natural habitat, impossible to see in such great detail on a regular postcard. BONUS: The backside has a great photo of wolves. For comparison only, I uploaded a second image with a 4x6 inches postcard overlapped.

Golf ball in mouth of American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)

Come get it, Tiger Woods!
If you come, I'll say...oh, snap!!!

Happy Thanksgiving! Maximum card: wild turkey

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! You don't have to join the Armaggedon of turkeys, though. Just "give thanks" and appreciate all the good things in your life, even if there aren't that many... "Count your blessings, not your troubles"...:)  




http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll201/dorincard/Turkey1.jpg

Non-traditional (non-FIP) maximum card: American alligator

This is a great photo of an alligator's nest!

WOA/ The LARGEST REPTILE in USA = ALLIGATOR. NON-AUTOGRAPHED MAXIMUM CARD

See you later, wally-gator? No, see you now!
"American Alligators have the strongest bite of any living animal, measured at up to 9,452 newtons (2,125 lb_f) in laboratory conditions.^[7]"


"Alligators depend on the wetlands, and in some ways the wetlands depend on them. As apex predators, they help control the population of rodents and other animals that might overtax the marshland vegetation."
"The American Alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, (known colloquially as simply gator) is one of the two living species of Alligator, a genus within the family Alligatoridae. The American Alligator is native only to the Southeastern United States, where it inhabits wetlands that frequently overlap with human-populated areas. It is larger than the other extant alligator species, the Chinese Alligator."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_alligator
Maybe a Chinese friend (but isn't blogger.com banned in China?) or another friend, or future friend, or just plain stranger could send me a Chinese alligator maximum card?
Or, if I get a simple postcard, I'll make it into a maximum card, with a matching Chinese stamp.
How can I check IF THERE IS such a stamp?
I go to my website http://dorinco.webs.com (this is the updated version of http://www.freewebs.com/dorinco - still valid) and I click on this useful link:

Great website for reptiles on stamps

http://www.reptile-stamps.de/

So I find that there are at least 3 stamp designs from China (PRC) and one from Eesti, which my general culture :D tells me it's Estonia.
Yeah, why don't I set that as a cool, although non-high-priority project for me: maximum card(s) with the Chinese alligator.


http://www.reptile-stamps.de/html/alligator.html