Category: Stamps

Canada Post brings to life five prehistoric animals that once roamed Canada.The animals depicted are: Tylosaurus pembinensis, a giant sea-dwelling reptile that could open its jaws wide like a snake and swallow large prey. It patrolled the inland sea that divided North America 80 million years ago. A skeleton displayed at the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Modern, […]

Bismark He was the “Iron Chancellor”. As Reich unifier Otto von Bismarck went (1815-1898) in the German history. From the patchwork of many small countries he has formed the unified German Empire. For almost three decades, certain of the gnarled Prussian Chancellor as the German and European politics. He introduced a health insurance (1883), an […]

Slovenia has released a stamp on 7th March 2015 that depicts Laško – one of the most famous tourist destinations of Slovenia. Laško is particularly renowned for the tradition of beer brewing and healing water springs. Wellness and health tourism are based on honey and beer treatment and are accessible to all. The countryside around […]

Lundy is a tiny and beautiful island off the North Devon coast, which boasts the oldest private postal service of its kind still operating in the world. The Lundy Post Office produces a new stamp issue, on average, every two years. Martin Coles Harman, established the Lundy Postal Service ‒ with its own stamps ‒ […]

Hungary has issued a stamp on 19th March 2015 to commemorate the life and creative works of Kálmán Imre – an outstanding Hungarian composer. The stamp depicts the composer with the group of musicians. Kálmán Imre was a Hungarian composer of operettas. He was born Imre Koppstein in Siófok, then in Austria-Hungary, on the southern […]

Aland will issue a stamp on 10th April 2015 on culture theme. The stamp shows one of painter Carl Larsson’s most controversial and known paintings, Midvinterblot (‘Blót’). The painting in the stamp, however, is a parallel work of art which is in the possession of Åland businessman Anders Wiklöf.The smaller Midvinterblot was painted parallelly and […]

Monaco will release a stamp on 9th April 2015 to celebrate the 750th birth anniversary of Dante Alighieri. The great Italian poet Dante Alighieri (born Florence 1265, died Ravenna 1321) is considered to be the father of the modern Italian language. His major work, the Divine Comedy, known and studied throughout the world, is recognized […]

Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada was born on March 28, 1515 in Castilian Ávila, the third of ten children. She was considered a cheerful, inquisitive and lively girl and was allowed to learn to read and write at her father’s wish. After the early death of her mother a convent of Augustinian nuns took […]