The Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) will release special postage stamps on 2nd May 2015 in support of Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao in his May 2 showdown against Floyd Mayweather Jr.The Manny Pacquiao “Fight of the Century” Philippine postage stamps will be released at P10 each.”This ‘Fight of the Century’ postage stamps featuring the nation’s […]
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Malta Post has announced that the €0.01, €0.02 and €0.05 stamps of the Definitive Issue have been reprinted.This reprint consists of 500,000 of each stamp, in sheets of 10 stamps bearing sheet numbers as follows: €0.01 stamp 160001-210000, €0.02 stamp 040001 – 090000, and the €0.05 stamp 020001 – 070000 both numbers included.The stamps measure […]
The President Mr.Pranab Mukharjee today released a postage stamp on the old seminary kottayam at New Delhi.The Old Seminary, Marthoma Seminary and Vadavathoor Seminary proclaim Syrian and Roman Christian traditions. It is located in the district of Kottayam in Kerala.The year 2015 marks the 200th anniversary, of the founding of “the Old Seminary” or “the Cottayam […]
Stamps featuring portrait photographs of famed singer Teresa Teng to commemorate her 20th death .A set consists of four stamps with a face value of NT$5, NT$9, NT$13 and NT$15.Teng is the first entertainer to be featured in a portrait on a national stamp.She died at the age of 42 of an asthma attack on […]
On the occasion of the opening of the Austrian National Library’s Literature Museum, Austrian Post issued a commemorative stamp on 16th April 2015 . This museum will present Austrian literature from the end of the 18th century to the present, brought together at one site. The stamp shows a view of the new premises of the […]
Norway’s legendary photographer, Anders Beer Wilse, was born in Flekkefjord on 12 June 1865 and grew up in the busy sailing port, Kragerø. He had difficulty finding work in Kragerø, so in 1884 young Anders left for the USA, where he worked as an engineer with the railroad. In 1897 he got a job as […]
This year’s Europa stamps, which are issued by the Member States of the Organization of European postal companies, Posteurop, rely on the topic of toys. The Liechtenstein edition includes two special stamps and shows Liechtenstein play figures made in the 1940s, a “polar bear” (face value CHF 1.40) and a “goat” (face value CHF 1.40). […]
Special postage stamps have been issued by the Qatar General Postal Corporation (Qpost), to commemorate the 13th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice being held in Doha from 12 to 19 April 2015.The 13th UN Crime Congress stamps feature the logo of the 13th UN Crime Congress. This edition of the Congress is […]
To mark the opening of Singapore’s first natural history museum, a series of stamps featuring animal specimens have been released on 18th April 2015.The stamps features four animal specimens from the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum: The sauropod dinosaur, the Giant Hawker dragonfly, the Black and Yellow Broadbill and the Leathery Turtle, said SingPost […]
Date of Issue:6 May 2015 80c – Silver paua (Haliotis australis):The silver paua lives in the lowtide and shallow sub-tidal zones on rocky shores throughout the country where it grazes on kelps and other algae. The genus name Haliotis is Latin for sea-ear, reflecting their distinctive shell shape. $1.40 – Scott’s Murex (Rolandiella scotti):As Scott’s […]