Cat Postmarks 2

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.

See also
Cat Postmarks 1
Gallery of cancellations from places with names containing the word 'cat'
Cat Postmarks 3 and 5
Similar to this page, sets of cancellations for special occasions
Cat Postmarks 4
A page of meter marks and American 'fancy cancels'

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)

Our featured feline Chico (see head of the page) belonged to a lady in the Swiss village of Chesières who lived near the ground-floor office where I worked in the mid-1980s. Every so often he liked to pass by, spend a little time with us and check we were doing everything properly.