Australia (1978)*

Date of issue: October 29th, 1978

Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/4

This is an interesting curiosity. Not a valid postal stamp. It comes as an exterior orange booklet and a second sheet (loose, folded but not stapled or attached) printed on stamp quality paper (no gum). It is a really nice piece in my opinion.

The description of the sheet says:

Printed at Stamp Show '78 on the Heidelberg GTO press by Mitchell Press Pty. Ltd.

Designed by Sarah Winslade winner of the Stamp Show '78 design award under 16 section.

The back of the booklet says: 

Reproduction of a miniature sheet. First produced at 4th Philatelic Exhibition Melbourne October 29th, 1928.

Taken from drawing by R.A. Harrison

Each sheet is numbered and dated for day of production at Stamp Show '78

Original was supplied by Mission Stamps and is available from Mission Stamps or 

Paul Mitchell 

Box 115, P.O. Magill, S.A.

Michel #: none / not legal
order: Araneae
family: Theridiidae
Latrodectus hasselti Thorell, 1898

Complete sheet:

interior sheet

exterior booklet

Australia - Spiders

Date of issue: October 29th, 1978

Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/4

Michel #: none / not legal
order: Araneae
family: Theridiidae
Latrodectus hasselti Thorell, 1898

For more information on this series, click HERE

Australia (1997)

Date of issue: October 1st, 1997
Name of issue: Creatures of the night
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/6 (souvenir sheet)

Oz has several interesting series about arachnids. First one is called “Creatures of the Night”. Although it does not contain any arachnid stamp, a spider is shown on the souvenir sheet.

Michel #: 1664 to 1669
Scott #: 1617 to 1622
Stanley Gibbon #: 1713 to 1718 (MS 1719)
Yvert #: BF 49
category: souvenir sheet only

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
*close-up of spider

Australia - Spiders

Date of issue: October 1st, 1997
Name of issue: Creatures of the night
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/6 (souvenir sheet)

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
*close-up of spider

Souvenir sheet:

Michel #: 1664 to 1669
Scott #: 1617 to 1622
Stanley Gibbon #: 1713 to 1718 (MS 1719)
Yvert #: BF 49
category: souvenir sheet only

For more information on this series, click HERE

Australia (1999)

Date of issue: 1999
Name of issue: Birth centenary of Sir Ian Clunies Ross

According to the info on the back of this prepaid envelope, the tick drawing is based on morphological drawings by Ian Clunies Ross, Parasitology, Vol XVI, No. 4.

prepaid envelope (recto)
Michel #: none
sub-class: Acari

Crop:

prepaid envelope (verso)

Australia - Acari

Date of issue: 1999
Name of issue: Birth centenary of Sir Ian Clunies Ross

crop

Full envelope:





prepaid envelope (recto)
Michel #: none
sub-class: Acari

For more information on this series, click HERE

Australia (2002)

Date of issue: September 25th, 2002
Name of issue: The magic rainforest
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 0/6

I knew it! Ever since I have seen this sheet, I suspected there should be a spider somewhere in there. The whole artwork is crawling with bugs. Unfortunately, it took me a long time to find a high resolution scan to verify.

Sure enough, there is a tiny spider on a tree trunk on the left hand side. You need good eyes to find that one!

Michel #: B47
Scott #: 2091 to 2096
Stanley Gibbon #: 2233 to 2238 (MS 2239)
order: Araneae
category: souvenir sheet only

Crop:

Australia (2005)

Date of issue: October 4th, 2005
Name of issue: Down on the farm
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

I found this one by luck completly. There is a spider on the web located on the fence.

This is another complex issue as the stamps come as regular, there is a souvenir sheet (in two different sizes, a regular one and one in the Stamp Fun Book), self adhesives coming in booklets of 5, 10 and 20 (and they all have different covers) (as well as another booklet for the 1$ stamp), there is a Stamp Fun Book for children containing special edition single souvenir sheets as well as a collector's pack.

Michel #: 2500 (*self adhesive)
order: Araneae



Special edition souvenir sheet
(page 15 of Stamp Fun Book)

Special edition souvenir sheet (oversized version)
(page 25 of Stamp Fun Book)

Other self adhesive stamps of this series:

 

Deluxe folder:

 

Cover

 

Interior

 

Back

 

 

Booklet of 5 self adhesive stamps:

 

exterior

interior

 

Other special edition souvenir sheets of the Stamp Fun Book:

 

page 6



page 9

page 12



page 18

page 21

Other pages of the Stamp Fun Book:

Front cover (opened)



Front cover (closed)



Back cover (closed)



Back cover (opened)