It’s time for another cool British stamp that had arrived on an envelope in my mailbox.
Issued 1991, Aug. 20
Perf. 14½ x 14 | Phosphorized paper
1577 1010 Triceratops | 37p | grey, greenish yellow, turquoise-blue, dull violet, yellow-brown & black
[Source: 1997 Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Part 1: British Commonwealth]
Additional notes:
1. Richard Owen worked as a taxonomist for the London Zoo and coined the word dinosaur (originally ‘dinosauria’) in 1841.
2. Triceratops lived in the Late Cretaceous period, about 68 to 66 million years ago, in what is now western North America.