The previous Micscape Article Microscopy on Stamps showed that there are some very attractive stamps that have been issued which illustrate microscopes. There have also been many attractive stamps issued which are illustrated with photomicrographs or illustrations of microscopic subjects. In this short article, a few of these stamps known to the author are shown.
Many stamps do illustrate both a microscope and a microscopic subject.
Some of the topics or events that have been celebrated by photomicrography or microscopic illustrations on stamps are as follows. A recent well known set of UK stamps illustrating the 150th anniversary of the Royal Microscopical Society was shown in the previous article stamps illustrating scientific endeavour, education etc. Collecting stamps related to microscopy can promote an interest in the lives of some of the famous scientists celebrated on many of these stamps or the diseases they discovered. Here are a selection of stamps that illustrate some of the themes listed above. I believe this stamp illustrates marine radiolaria, which are protozoa with silica shells.