Publications
In 2011, with an enormous help of the Executive Director of the American Topical Association Vera Felps, my dream project – the two volume illustrated catalog/handbook “Wild Cats in Art” was published by Minuteman Press of Toledo, Ohio. The graphic designer for the handbook is Amanda Morgenstern, a young American philatelist with a BA (Honors) in Graphic Design and an MA in Typographic Design from Cambridge School of Art in the UK. The handbook 161 received excellent reviews in “Topical Times” and ‘Canadian Stamp News” magazines and it can be ordered from the website of the American Topical Association. Most recently the handbook was also issued in a digital format on a CD which also includes corrections, updates and additions to the original print version. The CD can be ordered from the American Topical Association as well.
In the past few years I wrote number of articles which were published mostly in the “Cat Mews” – an award winning Journal of the Cats on Stamps Study Unit of the American Topical Association. This wonderful publication is edited by a true feline philately enthusiast Marci Jarvis, who masterfully prepared my articles for publication, rearranging them and making necessary corrections and improvements. All these articles displayed in this part of the website.
Please click on the titles to view them in PDF format.
Wild Cats on United States Private Die Proprietary Stamps
Cat Stamp with a Personal Story
The above article was originally published in the “Cat Mews”. This is the version translated to Armenian and published in 2011 issue 56 of the bilingual “Journal of the Armenian Philatelic Association” (Glendale, CA), and February 2011 issue of the “Armenian Philately” (Yerevan, Armenia).
Lion Fountains in Italy and Spain
Netherlands Lion Labels for Belgian Internment Camps
Four Small Articles in Cats Mews
Five Small Articles in Cats Mews
Lion’s Head Door Knockers & Mail Slots
Four Small Articles in Cats Mews
Three Small Articles in Cats Mews
Scythian Pectoral from Ukraine
Felines on the Stamps of Mountainous Karabakh
Armenia. Hovhannes Tumanyan. Nazar the Brave
House of Chimeras in Kiev, Ukraine
First Cat Stamps from Mount Athos (Greece)
Julius Adam II and Arthur Heyer
Behemoth in The Master and Margarita
Civil War Lion Patriotic Covers
Van Cat by Mkrtich Chanchanyan
Tombstone Lions of Szombathely, Hungary
Lion of Salakta Mosaic, Tunisia
Update on the First Cat Stamps
Anderson-Neary, Jones & Company
A Knight in Panther’s (Tiger’s) Skin, Georgia, Shota Rustaveli
Xiongan New Area Guardian Lion (Shishi)
Heraldic Lion of Austrian Emperor Maximilian I
Armenian Postal History of Crimea
Ubeda Lion and Shiels Statue, Spain
Tiger on Civil War Patriotic Cover
The Armenian Connection of Lusignan Dynasty
History of the City of Surb Khach
Wild Cats on Stamps of Armenia and Artsakh
Schemerl Bridge Lions, Austria
Urartian Sphinxes in Philately
Armenian Year of the Tiger Stamp by Rem Saakyan
Feline Manuscript Cancellations
Armenian Noble Dynasties in the Russian Empire – Part 1
Armenian Noble Dynasties in the Russian Empire – Part 2
Early Cat Stamps from Schleswig-Holstein
