Netherland children's stamps - with dandelions

 

I have a this lovely set of stamps in the Dandelion Archive. They are Dutch with the title Voor Het Kind - For the Child, dated from 1940 and designed by D van Gelder. 

The Children's stamps started in the Netherlands in 1924 and have been issued ever since (apart from 1942 - 1944 due to the Second World War). 

This set shows a young girl with a doll holding a dandelion clock collected from a plant by her knees. Sweet.

Japanese Dandelion Stamp

I've collected quite a few postage stamps with Dandelions on for the Dandelion Archive: and here are some from Japan. According to a website about stamps they depict a 'Smaller Green Flower Chafer (Oxycetonia jucunda) on Dandelion' and were issued in 1997. 

Eire Dandelion (in the background) Postage Stamp

Dandelions are often not the main focus of an artwork and instead they are in the background. It is quite hard to search for items with dandelions as they are not listed in the description of the object. The result is hours of internet trawling - an addiction trying to hunt them out.
Here is an example of this: a postage stamp from Eire (Ireland) issued in 1994 showing a  gorgeous Garden Tiger Moth - on a Dandelion.  It doesn't seem easy to find the artist's name, but one source has listed the illustrater as I Loe. I can't find confirmation of this, plus I can't find much information on I Loe either... sorry about that.
The stamp, from a series of four showing different moths, is now safely in the Dandelion Archive.

Mongolia Dandelion Postage Stamp (another one)

Here is another of my Dandelion Stamps in the archive. Issued in 1985, it's another one from Mongolia and has the latin name Taraxacum officinale on it. Again, I can't find the artist's name. Mongolia seem to like dandelions on stamps - this is one of three different ones i've found so far. 
I can feel a trip to Mongolia coming on.... (when coronavirus allows etc).