The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Tunisia 2019 Its aim is to achieve food security for all and make sure that...
It’s that time of year again and history tells us that the often-repeated message churned out during the Christmas holiday period, wishing for ‘Peace on Earth’, will never happen. My negativity was aroused when searching for appropriate stamps for this...
Naturally, the ease with which one can communicate with people worldwide via email and other modern instant messaging systems has its advantages, but these methods have caused a great decline in the act of physically writing a letter and sending...
In 1968 the Falklands Islands issued the attractive definitive set of stamps shown below. They featured flowers native to the Islands. Then in 1971, as Great Britain was about to adopt a decimal currency system, the stamps were reissued overprinted...
PainI plead ignorance! I love art in all its forms but confess that until I visited museums in what was previously known as The (Communist) Eastern Bloc, I was quite unaware of the many wonderful artists to be found in...
Animals, architecture, sport, famous people, flowers, transport ……… Which topic/theme is most popular among stamp collectors? Without doubt animals are high on the list. An amazing amount of stamps have been issued over the years featuring birds, with dogs, horses...
Latvijas Pasts (the Latvian postal service) has released the first stamps denominated only in euros. Six new additions were made to its 'Flowers' series, each with a different denomination. Stamps depicting flowers The designer of the Flowers series stamps is...
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