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 […]
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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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The 100th Anniversary of Zion Mule Corps In April 1915, a large British military force landed on the shores of the Gallipoli peninsula, not far from the city of Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. On April 16, 1915, after only a brief twoweek training period, the Mule Corps joined the main force which […]