Horns Out of Africa

Eastern Transvaal and Kwa/Zulu Natal

Two of the 1995 South African 'Tourism' series featuring one of the top reasons I would want to travel there, the wildlife. Helpfully the stamps include a map so I'll know exactly where to head for. The artist is the South African wilderness sculptor and painter Alan Ainslie who has designed stamps for various countries not only featuring wildlife but also well know people.

In the same decade as the 'Tourism' stamps South Africa's definitives were featuring endangered animals and these are ones from the 3rd series.

For the completist the various South African definitives series throughout its history offer a dizzying variety of printings, gum, perforations, booklet and sheet stamps. I noticed that the impala on the right has a franking date of 2000 which is the year when South Africa definitives changed to the wonderfully colourful birds, fish and flowers series.