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United States Stamps 2025: American Vistas
About These Stamps American Vistas, two new Presorted Standard stamps from the U.S. Postal Service, evoke the beauty, variety, and vastness of our country’s natural spaces. The stylized and minimalist scenes started as vector illustrations created by the graphic design and illustration firm DKNG Studios, which then turned them into screen prints, using just three Continue reading
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United States Stamps 2025: Allen Toussaint
About This Stamp New Orleans is a globally important music city, and New Orleanian Allen Toussaint (1938–2015) may have done more than anyone else to shape the special blend of rhythm and blues for which the city is beloved, and to put it out to the wider world. The 48th stamp in the Black Heritage series celebrates Continue reading
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United States Stamps 2025: 1794 Compass Rose
About This Stamp Send greetings to friends and family overseas with the latest international stamp from the U.S. Postal Service featuring a colorful illustration of an 18th-century compass rose. The 32-point compass rose from the Collections of Maine Historical Society depicted on this round stamp was drawn by Lucia Wadsworth, the aunt of poet Henry Continue reading
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United States Stamps 2025: Love
About This Stamp This new Love stamp from the U.S. Postal Service celebrates the universal experience of love with a work by artist Keith Haring (1958–1990). Rendered in Haring’s signature style, the design features his 1985 Untitled drawing which shows a large red heart with thick black lines radiating from it. Underneath are two undefined figures raising their hands Continue reading
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Year of the Snake 2025: United States
Updated 17 December 2024 About This Stamp On 14 January 2025, the U.S. Postal Service issues the sixth of 12 stamps in the newest Lunar New Year series. The Year of the Snake begins January 29, 2025, and ends on February 16, 2026. Beginning in 2020, in observance of the Lunar New Year holiday, the U.S. Postal Continue reading
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Year of the Snake 2025: Liechtenstein
On 4 November, Liechtensteinischen Post AG will release its fourth and final issue of 2024 including four designs featuring woodcut illustrations from historical medical books for a journey through the natural sciences, a single depicting a nightwatchman’s horn in the Cultural Heritage series, four colorful Christmas stamps enhanced by gold embossing, and a single design Continue reading
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Year of the Snake 2025: Åland
Åland Post issued a Martin Mörck-designed Zodiac souvenir sheet on 23 October 2024, marking the Year of the Snake in 2025. The series features the Chinese Zodiac animals and their odyssey through the Åland landscape. The previous stamps in this series illustrated Åland sheep (2014), Europa – Old toys/Monkey (2015), Roosters (2016), China dogs (2017), Continue reading
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Christmas Stamps 2024: Åland
Åland Post issued a pair of gummed stamps in sheets of 40 each as well as a booklet of 20 self-adhesive seals (four designs each) on 23 September to mark Christmas 2024. The theme of these items is “knitted,” illustrated by Anna Pers Bräcke from Sweden. The designs are full of soft, cozy and home-knitted Continue reading
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Happy World Post Day 2024 – 150th Anniversary of the Universal Postal Union (A Gallery of Stamps)
World Post Day is marked each year on 9 October, the anniversary of the Universal Postal Union (UPU). On 9 October 1874, 22 countries gathered to sign the Treaty of Bern, creating the General Postal Union, which would become known as the Universal Postal Union four years later. This was the start of the global Continue reading
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Ascension Island 2024
2024 Stamp Schedule Date of Issue Name of Issue 02 Feb 2024 Deep Sea Life of Ascension 29 Apr 2024 Insects of Ascension Island Gallery 02 Feb 2024 — Deep Sea Life of Ascension 29 April 2024 — Insects of Ascension Island © 2024 by Mark Joseph Jochim Continue reading
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Philatelic Pursuits 