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You will be amazed at what this group knows. Just ask a specific question, no matter how obscure, and one of these members will answer.
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Thank you so much for the private and public messages. Yes, I will ask a specific question.
We heard that there are a few stamp collectors that collect cow stamp, but must be left side of cow's face. It's very strange, but interesting and unique.
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Does anyone collect cow's face (left side) ?
If yes, why left side of face?
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"Does anyone collect cow's face (left side) ?"
I have never heard of this.
I HAVE heard of collectors of COWS on stamps, but not JUST a cow's left profile!
Is this actually a collecting interest somewhere??
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Google; "left side of cow's face" and you may
be amazed at the ongoing discussions as to
whether a cow can be left hooved, or right hooved.
Or prefer to be milked on one particular side.
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Read it online some time last year I think.
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When I had a dairy farm, we definitely had cows who preferred one side of the milking parlor to the other, which effectively dictates which side the milker approaches from.
Handedness (or "laterality" for other left vs. right preferences) has been studied in mammals, fish, and invertebrates, with some statistically significant results.
Cows tend to watch unfamiliar or potentially dangerous things primarily with their left eye, and familiar things with their right!
SO, theoretically, those left-profile cows were eyeballing the stranger taking their photo with that funky camera device!
There is also some research on guide dogs that shows laterality can affect compatibility with their "guidees", depending on which side of the person they prefer to walk. Some trainers actually use this as part of their criteria for pairing animals and people.
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On July 30, 1974, a 25 cent stamp was issued on the occasion of the centenary of the association "Het Nederlandsche Rundvee-Stamboek".
The stamp, designed by Jaap Drupsteen, shows three BSE-free cattle.
Collectors did funny things with them like this :
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In our stamp club meeting, I asked if anyone collect stamps with cow's face (left side). Everyone were laughing. Someone thought it was a prank. He started to search for hidden cameras & microphones with excitement.
The meeting ended early since members couldn't stop laughing. I'm 100% sure that there are no one in French Polynesia collect stamps with cow's left side face, but I wonder who collect them? Does Cow's Face Left Side Stamp Club exist? I think it's amazing.
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The first stamp I was able to come up with where the right side of the cow's face is visible is the USA's Nebraska statehood stamp from 1967, Scott #1328. Although it would appear that the cow pictured is actually a bull. Another stamp is the USA stamp for western cattle in a storm, Scott #292, from 1898 and the derivative stamp Scott #3209h from 1998. These stamps show multiple cattle from their right side, both cows and at least one bull.
I suspect that the original information regarding collecting stamps with a cow's left face was a prank though. However, it might actually make a fun single frame exhibit from a human interest topical perspective. A battle of the perspectives could be an organizing focus.
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Hmm, doing a search on hipstamp.com using the search term "cow" yields an amazing number of stamps showing cows/bulls so there would be a significant number of candidate stamps!
There is even a publication available on Hipstamp that is a monograph on the sacred cows stamp issues of Bundi State which is one of the Indian States which issued postage stamps. This can easily get out of hand. 
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Perhaps not surprisingly, I casually collect pigs on stamps.
In my job, I am frequently making presentations to stakeholders, and I use stamp images as a device to separate different sections of a presentation. These work well to prompt the audience that I'm pausing for them to interject or ask a question.
There is a very nice Vietnamese stamp showing Sus scrofa, a feral hog. And, there's a nice series of 5 Chinese stamps graphically depicting various management phases of swine production.
-Paul
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But onemust reference the original source of the cow depiction. Some stamps have flipped the orginal to put the left face as right, or the right face as left. More research may be required/s.
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Thank you so much for all the fantastic comments & messages. It's been very interesting & informative. We assumed nobody in StampoRama collect cow's face (left side) stamps. Here is a video of the 10 most popular topics in the world. This video also mentioned cow's face (left side) stamp.
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The left side of the Cow does seem to be more popular !
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I cannot fathom why a topical 'cow collector' would eschew the right side.
I do know that it is traditional to milk a cow on the right side, but I do not know why, and I doubt that the cow does, either.
In the category of 'extreme trivia', the cow's abdomen is not symmetrical. The left side is dominated by the 40-gallon rumen and the right side of a pregnant cow is dominated by her calf.
My uncle, my grandfather, and my great-grandfather all had milk cows. Shorthorn (dual purpose) at first, before WWI, and Jersey after that. From December, 1941 until 1943, my uncle delivered 96 quarts of milk every morning, in Marshalltown, Iowa (Linus). Dairy practice dominated my professional career for the first 5 years. That made me glad that my father never had milk cows (only beef).
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On the subject of cows, this sort of fits.
Buttercup
She ambles slowly across the field, as if all time were hers,
To graze upon the finest blades and miss the prickly burrs.
The Guernsey girl, of red topped white, gives rich pure creamy milk.
Her Island sister Jersey has butterfat, so much like golden silk.
The Kerry and the Friesian, Sussex and Welsh Black
Are darker and much heavier and broader by far of back.
The Red Poll and the Galloway they have no horns at all,
A docile ones’ the Simmental, whilst Dexter is quite small.
Ayreshire, Highland and Shorthorn have from the North been bred,
Neither Angus nor the Charolais are the biggest, or so it’s said,
Not even abundant Hereford or hardy Lincoln Red,
But our lady from South Devon holds the record by a head.
These noble beasts that roam our land and give us food to eat,
Dislike ragwort and thistle but crop the sward beneath our feet.
So when next we roam their pastures, all on a summers day,
Give thanks to Noah and his ark and the ones who got away.
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Not exactly a cow, this Sker Buffalo, starring in the movie Skull Island and seen here from his (her?) left side, deserves his (her) own stamp!
I've been fascinated by water buffalo (which are a kind of cow, aren't they?) ever since reading Hemingway's short story, "The Short Happy Life of Francis McComber," one of my favourite short stories. You'll find it it here.
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Bob, water buffalo are of the Order Artiodactyla (even toe), Family Bovidae. Same as a cow.
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I wonder if stamp portraits of the kings, queens and leaders are more likely to be of the left side rather than centre or right side. Looking at Thai definitive stamps the kings are more likely to be left profile or slightly left than those with a right profile.
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Linus, this one's for you.
At the risk of veering into a non-philatelic area, here's another paper cow-related collectible:
It's an unused paper cap for a milk bottle. From my Uncle Milo's dairy! He writes in his book:
"In Marshalltown, I had rented a nice home at 1609 South Center Street with ten acres of blue grass pasture in the back and a fair old barn that I thought could be remodeled to accommodate ten cows."
That's about a mile-and-a-half south of the center of town. Now buried under a subdivision. He says he had the highest producing herd in Marshall county in 1943. At the time, there were nineteen dairies serving Marshalltown.
-Paul
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We are just wondering are there any Stamp Specialists at StampoRama.
Are you a Stamp Specialist?
If yes, please specify Region, ERA or Topic.
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Thank you.
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09:50:28pm
re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
You will be amazed at what this group knows. Just ask a specific question, no matter how obscure, and one of these members will answer.
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Thank you so much for the private and public messages. Yes, I will ask a specific question.
We heard that there are a few stamp collectors that collect cow stamp, but must be left side of cow's face. It's very strange, but interesting and unique.
.
Does anyone collect cow's face (left side) ?
If yes, why left side of face?
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re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
"Does anyone collect cow's face (left side) ?"
I have never heard of this.
I HAVE heard of collectors of COWS on stamps, but not JUST a cow's left profile!
Is this actually a collecting interest somewhere??
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08:05:34pm
re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
Google; "left side of cow's face" and you may
be amazed at the ongoing discussions as to
whether a cow can be left hooved, or right hooved.
Or prefer to be milked on one particular side.
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re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
Read it online some time last year I think.
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re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
When I had a dairy farm, we definitely had cows who preferred one side of the milking parlor to the other, which effectively dictates which side the milker approaches from.
Handedness (or "laterality" for other left vs. right preferences) has been studied in mammals, fish, and invertebrates, with some statistically significant results.
Cows tend to watch unfamiliar or potentially dangerous things primarily with their left eye, and familiar things with their right!
SO, theoretically, those left-profile cows were eyeballing the stranger taking their photo with that funky camera device!
There is also some research on guide dogs that shows laterality can affect compatibility with their "guidees", depending on which side of the person they prefer to walk. Some trainers actually use this as part of their criteria for pairing animals and people.
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re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
On July 30, 1974, a 25 cent stamp was issued on the occasion of the centenary of the association "Het Nederlandsche Rundvee-Stamboek".
The stamp, designed by Jaap Drupsteen, shows three BSE-free cattle.
Collectors did funny things with them like this :
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re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
In our stamp club meeting, I asked if anyone collect stamps with cow's face (left side). Everyone were laughing. Someone thought it was a prank. He started to search for hidden cameras & microphones with excitement.
The meeting ended early since members couldn't stop laughing. I'm 100% sure that there are no one in French Polynesia collect stamps with cow's left side face, but I wonder who collect them? Does Cow's Face Left Side Stamp Club exist? I think it's amazing.
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re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
The first stamp I was able to come up with where the right side of the cow's face is visible is the USA's Nebraska statehood stamp from 1967, Scott #1328. Although it would appear that the cow pictured is actually a bull. Another stamp is the USA stamp for western cattle in a storm, Scott #292, from 1898 and the derivative stamp Scott #3209h from 1998. These stamps show multiple cattle from their right side, both cows and at least one bull.
I suspect that the original information regarding collecting stamps with a cow's left face was a prank though. However, it might actually make a fun single frame exhibit from a human interest topical perspective. A battle of the perspectives could be an organizing focus.
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re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
Hmm, doing a search on hipstamp.com using the search term "cow" yields an amazing number of stamps showing cows/bulls so there would be a significant number of candidate stamps!
There is even a publication available on Hipstamp that is a monograph on the sacred cows stamp issues of Bundi State which is one of the Indian States which issued postage stamps. This can easily get out of hand.
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08:31:46am
re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
Perhaps not surprisingly, I casually collect pigs on stamps.
In my job, I am frequently making presentations to stakeholders, and I use stamp images as a device to separate different sections of a presentation. These work well to prompt the audience that I'm pausing for them to interject or ask a question.
There is a very nice Vietnamese stamp showing Sus scrofa, a feral hog. And, there's a nice series of 5 Chinese stamps graphically depicting various management phases of swine production.
-Paul
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re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
But onemust reference the original source of the cow depiction. Some stamps have flipped the orginal to put the left face as right, or the right face as left. More research may be required/s.
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re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
Thank you so much for all the fantastic comments & messages. It's been very interesting & informative. We assumed nobody in StampoRama collect cow's face (left side) stamps. Here is a video of the 10 most popular topics in the world. This video also mentioned cow's face (left side) stamp.
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The left side of the Cow does seem to be more popular !
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07:01:59am
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I cannot fathom why a topical 'cow collector' would eschew the right side.
I do know that it is traditional to milk a cow on the right side, but I do not know why, and I doubt that the cow does, either.
In the category of 'extreme trivia', the cow's abdomen is not symmetrical. The left side is dominated by the 40-gallon rumen and the right side of a pregnant cow is dominated by her calf.
My uncle, my grandfather, and my great-grandfather all had milk cows. Shorthorn (dual purpose) at first, before WWI, and Jersey after that. From December, 1941 until 1943, my uncle delivered 96 quarts of milk every morning, in Marshalltown, Iowa (Linus). Dairy practice dominated my professional career for the first 5 years. That made me glad that my father never had milk cows (only beef).
-Paul
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re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
On the subject of cows, this sort of fits.
Buttercup
She ambles slowly across the field, as if all time were hers,
To graze upon the finest blades and miss the prickly burrs.
The Guernsey girl, of red topped white, gives rich pure creamy milk.
Her Island sister Jersey has butterfat, so much like golden silk.
The Kerry and the Friesian, Sussex and Welsh Black
Are darker and much heavier and broader by far of back.
The Red Poll and the Galloway they have no horns at all,
A docile ones’ the Simmental, whilst Dexter is quite small.
Ayreshire, Highland and Shorthorn have from the North been bred,
Neither Angus nor the Charolais are the biggest, or so it’s said,
Not even abundant Hereford or hardy Lincoln Red,
But our lady from South Devon holds the record by a head.
These noble beasts that roam our land and give us food to eat,
Dislike ragwort and thistle but crop the sward beneath our feet.
So when next we roam their pastures, all on a summers day,
Give thanks to Noah and his ark and the ones who got away.
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re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
Not exactly a cow, this Sker Buffalo, starring in the movie Skull Island and seen here from his (her?) left side, deserves his (her) own stamp!
I've been fascinated by water buffalo (which are a kind of cow, aren't they?) ever since reading Hemingway's short story, "The Short Happy Life of Francis McComber," one of my favourite short stories. You'll find it it here.
Bob
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07:40:17am
re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
Bob, water buffalo are of the Order Artiodactyla (even toe), Family Bovidae. Same as a cow.
-Paul
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re: Collect Cow's Face (Left Side) stamps
I wonder if stamp portraits of the kings, queens and leaders are more likely to be of the left side rather than centre or right side. Looking at Thai definitive stamps the kings are more likely to be left profile or slightly left than those with a right profile.
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03:33:00pm
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Linus, this one's for you.
At the risk of veering into a non-philatelic area, here's another paper cow-related collectible:
It's an unused paper cap for a milk bottle. From my Uncle Milo's dairy! He writes in his book:
"In Marshalltown, I had rented a nice home at 1609 South Center Street with ten acres of blue grass pasture in the back and a fair old barn that I thought could be remodeled to accommodate ten cows."
That's about a mile-and-a-half south of the center of town. Now buried under a subdivision. He says he had the highest producing herd in Marshall county in 1943. At the time, there were nineteen dairies serving Marshalltown.
-Paul
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