Vietnam has released a set of two stamps on 31st March 2020 .The stamps designed by painter Pham Trung Ha. The design of a stamp features an image of people from different social classes in the fight against coronavirus. The other honoring medical professionals shows two people wearing face masks, they are frontline fighters of the coronavirus […]
Category: History Behind a Stamp
William Wordsworth, born on 7th April 1770 . Wordsworth was concerned about the elitism of earlier poets, their highbrow language and subject matter which was not accessible to ordinary people. He maintained that poetry should be democratic; that it should be composed in ‘the language really spoken by men’ and he launched his ideas when […]
250th Birth Anniversary of Beethoven Issue Date:21.01.2020 Europa 2020 Theme:Ancient Postal Routes The stamps features six mail and packet ships that sailed between Guernsey and the United Kingdom. Before air mail took off in the twentieth century, sending post to the Channel Islands was only possible by sea and crossing the busy Channel could be […]
The stamp depicts a Japanese beetle. This bug,which was introduced into Italy a few years ago, can now be found in Switzerland as well, in southern Ticino. Over 300 speciesof wild plants and crops are food for the Japanese beetle, including fruit trees andthe vine illustrated on the stamp. Thanks to the ve white tufts […]
Whilst it is well known that Wordsworth’s poetry was inspired by an absorbing love of nature, written among the lakes and mountains of the Lake District where he spent most of his life, we’ve pulled together a few lesser known facts about one of the leading English romantic poets. Issue Date:01.04.2020 Designer:Joseph Smith Printer:Cartor Security […]
On 19 March 2020, UNPA issues a set of six mini-sheets featuring Hello Kitty and the Global Goals, also known as the Sustainable Development Goals. The self-adhesive stamps are blank with several Hello Kitty elements in the tab, which can be incorporated on the stamps, creating their own personal designs.The United Nations and Sanrio Co., […]
The Vatican is issuing a special postage stamp for Easter this year featuring “street art” from Rome. The image on the 1.15 euro stamp dedicated to Easter 2020 is a graffiti rendition of “The Ascension,” by Heinrich Hofmann (1824-1911). The “street art” is located near Rome’s Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II. Born in Darmstadt, Germany, Hofmann […]
The Gibraltar 2019 NatWest International Island Games XVIII will be held from 6th to 12th July 2019. Once every two years, thousands of athletes from across the globe — from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic to the Caribbean — come together to compete in the NatWest International Island Games.The games started in 1985, […]
In Hungary prior to 1920, law enforcement agencies operated under local direction in a decentralised manner. A hundred years ago, these activities were placed under central control, which involved the establishment of the Royal Hungarian Police Force, the regulation of policing and the start of the training of police officers. Issue Date:24.04.2020 Designer:István Weisenburger Process:Offset […]
Croatia Issue Date:27th March 2020 Designer:Nataša Odak, a designer from Zagreb Printer:AKD d.o.o., Zagreb Process:Offset Printing Colours:Multicolor Size:35.50 x 35.50 mm UNPA UNPA issued a special event sheet to promote the ACT NOW Climate Action campaign. The sheet of 10 stamps in the denomination of US$ 1.20 feature 10 global actions that people can take […]