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 […]
Category: New Stamps
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). […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tokelau is a group of three small atolls making them the perfect place to fish. Fishing communities in Tokelau have their own traditional methods and equipment for catching different kinds of fish, and this stamp issue looks at four of those methods used to catch atu (skipjack), laulaufau (moorish idols), manini (convict tang) and pāla […]
The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the Centenary Year Celebrations of Patna High Court on 18th April 2015 at Patna. He released a commemorative postage stamp on this occasion. Speaking on the occasion, the President said that when the foundation-stone of the Patna High Court building was laid on December 01, 1913, the then Viceroy […]
15 March is World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD), an annual occasion for celebration and solidarity within the international consumer movement. It marks the date in 1962 President John F Kennedy first outlined the definition of Consumer Rights.
Spain has issued a stamp on 16th April 2015 on National Exhibition of Children’s Philately (JUVENIA) .The stamp depicts a frontal view of As Burgas, a hot spring located in this Galician city, and a group of children, representing the union among young stamp collectors. The stamps are available as Premium Sheets with amusing lines […]