World of the Family Meeting Vatican City’s postal service has released stamp commemorating the World of the Family Meeting in Philadelphia, Cindy Wooten of the Catholic News Service reports from Rome. The 2.30 Euro ($2.50) stamp shows families from different parts of the world against a backdrop featuring elements of the city’s skyline and the […]
Month: July 2015
Estonia has issued a set of four stamps on occasion of 100th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia on 6th July 2015. The items depict various innovations the ideas for which were born in Estonia. In the most general sense innovation is doing things in a new way. Several world-wide success stories have been born […]
Welcome to Your Home Date of Issue:2 January 2015,Width:52 mm,Height:41 mm,Perforation:13,Printer: Philaposte Bouzalac France Legend of The First Snow Date of Issue:6 February 2015,Width:26 mm,Height:40 mm,Perforation:13,Printer: Philaposte Bouzalac France 75th Anniversary of the Withdrawal of Colonel Rene Baulardâs Gendames Date of Issue:10 April 2015,Width:40 mm,Height:26 mm,Perforation:13,Printer: Philaposte Bouzalac France Transportation Date of Issue:19 March 2015,Width:40 […]
The Netherlands issued special stamps on 4th July 2015 on Tour de France in the Netherlands .PostNL issued the Tour de France mail set specially for the start of the Tour. The set contains a stamp sheet with three new stamps and three matching postcards. The set features the route of the first two stages […]
Today India has the largest Postal Network in the world with over 1, 55,015 Post Offices (as on 31.03.2009) of which 1, 39,144 (89.76%) are in the rural areas. At the time of independence, there were 23,344 Post Offices, which were primarily in urban areas. Thus, the network has registered a seven-fold growth since Independence, […]
As part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia Preliminary Draw activities, Official FIFA Licensee, The Federal State Unitary Enterprise Marka Publishing and Trading Center, presented the first philatelic items on 24th Jyly 2015 that have been created to celebrate the tournament. The FIFA Philatelic Programme brings football fans together with the world of philately, and offers […]
This year’s SEPAC theme is ‘Culture’ and we have chosen to celebrate paintings from a variety of artists who had connections with Guernsey.This striking set includes two very different paintings of Moulin Huet Bay – one by Renoir and one by Naftel. The French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir spent a month in Guernsey in the […]
By Anurag Senior philatelist Wolfgang Beyer from Germany sent this attractive and thematic special postmark and postcard featuring a Grey Langur . Wolfgang Beyer is known for his interest in Indian Philately. Gray langurs are large and fairly terrestrial inhabiting forest, open lightly wooded habitats, and urban areas on the Indian Subcontinent . Most species are […]
This postage stamp issue presents rare flower species found in the patrimony of four botanical gardens in Romania. The stamps were unveiled on 3 July 2015. On the stamp with the face value of lei 1.00 is illustrated Astragalus peterfii Jav, plant from the species Milkvetch, endemic to Romania and with a pin head habitat, […]
Hungary issued stamps on treasures of the Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History in Győr and the Zsolnay Collection of the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs on 3rd July 2015.