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Latvia 2024 The Europa Stamp Competition for the period 9th May-9th September 2024 has "Underwater Flora and Fauna as its subject. Latvia's colourful entry shows on the left the water plant najas flexilis, now rare and threatened throughout its European...
Since we last featured the topic of lighthouses in 2019 there have been many great issues for the collector. Here we've made a selection from those produced in the three years up to and including 2022. Naturally if you visit...
Australia 2002 There are many postage stamps featuring imaginary characters from children's stories and in 2002 Australia issued a stamp set showing figures from a book written for kids by Australian author John Marsden. Beginning top left we have: the...
Aland 2022 Today we feature a small selection of festive season stamps, starting with Åland's two beautiful 2022 Christmas stamps that show a modern version of the classic gnomes. Christmas is the holiday when we send most greetings by post....
Now and then we focus on the incredible variety of subjects that can be found on postage stamps, some being very unusual. And today I came across some such stamps. Those in question feature a sport whose participants must not...
Following the recently published Freddie Mercury article and having just heard the Queen song 'Bicycle Race' on the radio, I sought out some Bicycle-themed stamps. And there are hundreds! Without doubt one of man's greatest inventions, it is estimated that...
Many new stamps on a wide variety of subjects appear with great regularity. Below you will find a selection of recently issued stamps from around the world. Azerbaijan issued this block with the theme of oil refineries in the Caspian Sea. ...
Tenth Danish Philatelist Day from September 2 to 6, 1938, celebrated with a stamp exhibition in Slagelse. The stamp with the overprint DFU FRIM-UDST 19 38 in red appeared on September 2, 1938. In addition, not every stamp in the sheet...
Skeletons have been quite in the news lately. First came the report that a skeleton at a school in New Zealand turned out to be made of real human bones. A week later, it was about a skeleton again. In a te...
This professor's name has stayed with me since I was young. The reason? He was the stamp designer of one of the most beautiful series of stamps I came across as a 12-year-old boy in my father's stockbooks. The stamps...
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