United Kingdom (1991)

Date of issue: February 5th, 1991
Name of issue: Good Luck
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/10

I just recentl;y discovered this series. The spider stamps are not so easy to spot as they are almost "hidden" details within the overall theme. The artwork of this series is really amazing and all the stamps of the strip combine to make one big image.

Michel #: 1312
order: Araneae
*note spider charm on the chain

Michel #: 1316
category: Web only
*note spider web in the horseshoe

Michel #: 1319
category: Web only

Other stamps of this series:

Greetings labels:

Booklet cover:

United Kingdom - Spiders

Date of issue: February 5th, 1991
Name of issue: Good Luck
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/10

Michel #: 1312
order: Araneae
*note spider charm on the chain

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United Kingdom - Web

Date of issue: February 5th, 1991
Name of issue: Good Luck
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/10

Michel #: 1316
category: Web only
*note spider web in the horseshoe

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United Kingdom - Web

Date of issue: February 5th, 1991
Name of issue: Good Luck
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/10

Michel #: 1319
category: Web only

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United Kingdom (1993)

Date of issue: February 2nd, 1993
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/10



Michel #: 1435
Yvert #: 1652
order: Araneae
category: Cartoon & Art



"Greetings Label" from the booklet

Booklet and other stamps of this series:

United Kingdom - Spiders

Date of issue: February 2nd, 1993
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/10



Michel #: 1435
Yvert #: 1652
order: Araneae
category: Cartoon & Art

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United Kingdom - Spiders

Date of issue: February 2nd, 1993
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/10

Michel #: none
order: Araneae
*"Greetings Labels" from the booklet

Full strip:

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United Nations (1996)

Date of issue: November 20th, 1996
Name of issue:  50e anniversaire de l'UNICEF
                          (50th anniversary of UNICEF)
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

Michel #: 302 (Geneva)
Category: Folklore

Full sheet:

Other stamp of this series:

United Nations - Folklore

Date of issue: November 20th, 1996
Name of issue: 50e anniversaire de l'UNICEF
                         (50th anniversary of UNICEF)
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

Michel #: 302 (Geneva)
Category: Folklore

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United Nations - Spiders

Date of issue: June 20th, 2003
Name of issue: International year of freshwater
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

This one is almost impossible to find. Thanks to the listing of a very zealous vendor. I could not confirm 100% from the scan he provided, so I decided to take a leap of faith (the stamp was cheap). When I received the stamp, I could still not confirm it, I had to look at the high resolution scan to make sure that indeed there was a spider there on the left side.

Michel #: 923 (New York)
order: Araneae

Crop:

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United Nations (2003)

Date of issue: June 20th, 2003
Name of issue:  International year of freshwater
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 1/6

This one is almost impossible to find. Thanks to the listing of a very zealous vendor. I could not confirm 100% from the scan he provided, so I decided to take a leap of faith (the stamp was cheap). When I received the stamp, I could still not confirm it, I had to look at the high resolution scan to make sure that indeed there was a spider there on the left side.

Michel #: 923 (New York)
order: Araneae

Crop:

Other stamps of this series:

United Nations (2009)

Date of issue: April 16th, 2009
Name of issue: Endangered species
Number of arachnid related stamps in issue: 3/12

It is my understanding that every year (for quite a few years now), the United Nations issue a series on endangered species. In 2009, they had one about arthropods.

Note the CITES logo on the full sheet. Unless it has been added recently, as far as I know, Dolomedes plantarius is not on CITES. But it is threatened by habitat loss.

Michel #: ? (Geneva)
order: Araneae
family: Pisauridae
Dolomedes plantarius (Clerck, 1757)

Michel #: ? (Vienna)
Scott #: 439
order: Scopriones
family: Scorpionidae
Pandinus imperator (C. L. Koch, 1841)

Michel #: ? (Vienna)
Scott #: 441
order: Araneae
family: Theraphosidae
Brachypelma smithi (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1897)

Full sheet (Vienna):

Full sheet (Geneva):

Other stamps of this series:

Full sheet (New York):