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Philatelic Round-Up! #2
Week of 20 May 2023 I have decided Fridays and Saturdays are probably the best time of the week to put together these Philatelic Round-Up! summaries of stampy stuff found around the Internet. We will see how that works out once I return to work (only one more week remaining in our extended holiday). Let’s Continue reading
1965 stamps, A Night To Remember, Albania, American Topical Association, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgian Congo, birds of paradise, Commonwealth Stamps Opinion Blog, delayed new issues, Engraved Beauties, Facebook, International Telecommunication Union, Israel, Kosovo, Malaysia, Malaysian Research Institutes, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, revenue stamps, RMS Titanic, Rochester Philatelic Society, Rosario, Sandafayre, Sanitary Stamps, StampBoards, Ubangi headdress, Walter Lord, World Bee Day, World Telecommunication and Information Society Day -
Europa 2023: Ukraine (24 May)
Ukraine’s participation in Europa 2023 will be released on 24 May. It will consist of two designs — the common design by Linda Bos and Runa Egilsdottir on the no-value indicator stamp inscribed with the letter A (currently equal to one U.S. dollar) and the design by Maria Suslova which took second place in last year’s PostEurop Continue reading
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Europa 2023: Germany (4 May)
On 4 May, Deutsche Post AG of Germany issued a single stamp denominated at 85 euro cents as its entry in the 2023 Europa theme of Peace: The Highest Value of Humanity. It will be released in a sheet of 10 stamps using the common design with the layout credited to Goldstein, Rheinstetten. According to the promotional material, This Continue reading
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Europa 2023: France (5 May)
France’s 2023 Europa stamp was initially sold by La Poste at the Strasbourg Foundry Post Office, 1 rue de la fonderie, 67000 Strasbourg, France on Friday, 5 May from 10am to noon and from 14:00 to 16:00 and at Carré d’Encre, 13 bis rue des Mathurins, 75009 Paris on Friday, 5 May and Saturday, 6 May from 10am to Continue reading
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Europa 2023: Finland (9 May)
On 12 October 2022, Posti of Finland became the first to announce their Europa 2023 stamp, a single non-denominated self-adhesive issue using the common design. It was printed in sheets of 10 stamps and released on 9 May 2023. Non-denominated, it is sold at the national value, currently €2.10. In May 2023, European postal administrations will publish a stamp Continue reading
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Albania 2023, Part 1 (April 2023)
On 27 April, the national postal service of Albania — Posta Shqiptare — released a sheetlet containing two stamps to mark the 15th anniversary of the Republic of Kosovo’s independence, denominated 200 and 250 leke. These are Albania’s first stamps of 2023 and no additional issued have yet been announced although it is expected to Continue reading
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Philatelic Round-Up! #1
Week of 15 May 2023 Early each week, I scan through a large number of different stamp collecting blogs and social media accounts getting a sort of “philatelic fix” before pursuing one or more of my ongoing projects (not necessarily hobby-related). Along the way, I stumble across many articles and other resources that may be Continue reading
American Air Mail Society, American Philatelic Society, APS Stamp Chats, August 2023, Austria, Big Blue 1840-1940, Big Blue album, Bitter Grounds, Black Adder, Commonwealth Stamps Opinion Blog, Croatia, David S. Ball, Egyptian stamps, Endangered Species stamps, Engraved Beauties, Europa 2023, Europa blog, Europa stamp album pages, Facebook groups, free stamp pages, Great Britain, how to collect air mail, India, jellyfish, July 2023, June 2023, Let's Talk Stamps, Luxembourg, match stamps, Mauritius, May 2023, MyStamp, New Issues 2023, OTD, Pakistan, Penny Black, personalized stamps, Portuguese Congo, PostEurop, Princess Chakri Maha Siridhorn, private die proprietary stamps, Queen Mother Sirikit, revenue stamps, Sri Lanka, Thailand Post, Transjordan stamps, Twitter, United States, Vesak Buja Day, Virtual Stamp Club, WOPA+, World Stamp Championship, YouTube videos -
Europa 2023: Artsakh (25 May)
The Republic of Artsakh has been issuing its own stamps since 1993. Also known as the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, prior to April 2017 its stamps were inscribed “Republic of Mountainous Karabakh”. The breakaway state in the South Caucasus is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan and controls a part of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, including Continue reading
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Europa 2023: Faroe Islands (9 May)
Faroe Islands released a single Europa 2023 using the common design on 9 May in both gummed and self-adhesive varieties. On the same date, Posta also issued a single gummed stamp titled “Hymn for Peace” stating that “The soldier with the bassoon, the flowers, and the Dove of Peace could just as well have stepped out of Ed McCurdy’s Continue reading
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Europa 2023: Czech Republic (9 May)
Česká pošta added its Europa 2023 stamp to its “Future Issues” online listing on 7 April, a single stamp scheduled for release on 9 May and using the common design. Kamil Knotek is listed as the graphic designer for this issue although it does mention that the winning common motif was designed by Linda Bos Continue reading
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