FREE: Tasmania 1880 Duck-Billed Platypus 6 pence stamp, used, Scott #AR26, est CV $16.24

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Hello! Up for your auction or GIN is a used postal fiscal six pence 1880 duck-billed platypus stamp from Tasmania, a large (the 26th largest in the world) island off the south coast of Australia. The stamp shows its age, but is still an excellent unusual stamp to add to your collection. From a smoke free home. Thank you for bidding!

Per Wikipedia:
The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal[3] endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The platypus is the sole living representative of its family (Ornithorhynchidae) and genus (Ornithorhynchus), though a number of related species appear in the fossil record.

Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. Like other monotremes it senses prey through electrolocation. It is one of the few species of venomous mammals, as the male platypus has a spur on the hind foot that delivers a venom capable of causing severe pain to humans.

The unusual appearance of this egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal baffled European naturalists when they first encountered it, and the first scientists to examine a preserved platypus body (in 1799)[4] judged it a fake, made of several animals sewn together.