Saturday, December 31

Germany 2012

Germany

Date of Issue: 2nd May 2012

one stamp (0.55 €)


the stamp is issued in a mini-sheet of 10 stamps

Tuesday, December 27

Faroe Islands - Norden 2012

Faroe Islands - Norden

Date of Issue: 21th March 2012

2 stamps (2x 10.50 DKK) issued in one souvenir sheet

Saturday, December 24

Armenia 2011

Armenia

Date of Issue: 14th December 2011

two stamps (2x 350.- AMD)


Both stamps are issued in mini-sheets of 10 stamps

Tuesday, December 20

Ukraine 2011

Ukraine

Date of Issue: 20th December 2011

two stamps (2.20 & 4.30 UAH)


both stamps are issued in a mini-sheet of 12 stamps (6 of each)

NOTE - Ukrposhta announced a first Europa issue for April/May 2011 but was then cancelled. Hereunder the design of the cancelled issue:

© Alexander and Sergei Kharuk

the designers of that canceled issue are Alexander and Sergei Kharuk. They already designed in the past, the 2008 Europa issue and the 50 years Europa CEPT stamps issue in 2006.

Europa stamps 2011

Europe

Europa 2011"Forests"




09.05.2011 Åland - 1 stamp (0.85 €)
30.07.2011 Albania - 1 stamp (200.- ALL)and 1 souvenir-sheet (250.- ALL)
09.05.2011 Andorra (French post) - 1 stamp (0.58 €)
04.04.2011 Andorra (Spanish post) - 1 stamp (0.65 €)
14.12.2011 Armenia - 2 stamps (2x 350.- AMD)
16.05.2012 Armenian post of Nagorno-Karabakh - 2 stamps (350 & 650.- AMD)
08.09.2011 Austria - 1 souvenir-sheet (1.70 €)
08.04.2011 Azerbaijan - 2 stamps (0.20 & 0.60 AZN) & 1 souvenir-sheet (1.- AZN)
09.05.2011 Azores - 1 stamp (0.68 €) & 1 souvenir-sheet (2x 0.68 €)

14.04.2011 Belarus - 2 stamps (2000.- & 2500.- BYR)
19.09.2011 Belgium - 1 souvenir-sheet of 2 stamps (2x EU value 3)
09.05.2011 Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2 stamps (2x 2.50 BAM) & 1 souvenir-sheet (2x 2.50 BAM)
05.04.2011 Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croat post) - 2 stamps (2x 3.- BAM)
06.04.2011 Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serb post) - 2 stamps (1.- & 2.- BAM)
28.04.2011 Bulgaria - 2 stamps (0.65 & 1.50 BGN) & 1 souvenir-sheet (0.65 & 1.50 BGN)
05.05.2011 Croatia - 2 stamps (2x 7.10 HRH)
04.05.2011 Cyprus - 2 stamps (0.51 & 0.68 €)
16.05.2011 Cyprus (Turkish post) - 2 stamps (2x 1.50 TRY) & 1 souvenir-sheet (2x 1.50 TRY)
04.05.2011 Czech rep. - 1 stamp (20.- CZK)

04.05.2011 Denmark - 2 stamps (8.- & 11.- DKK)

28.04.2011
Estonia - 2 stamps(2x 0.58 €)
26.04.2011 Faroe Is. - 2 stamps (10.- & 12.- DKK)
06.05.2011 Finland - 2 stamps (2x 2nd class value)
09.05.2011 France - 1 stamp (0.75 €)

05.05.2011 Germany - 1 stamp (0.55 €)
04.04.2011 Gibraltar - 4 stamps (0.10, 0.42, 0.44 & 1.50 GBP)
22.03.2011 Great-Britain - 1 stamp within a souvenir-sheet of 4 stamps
17.05.2011 Greece - 2 stamps (0.75 & 3.25 €)
17.01.2011 Greenland - 2 stamps (9.- & 10.- DKK)
04.05.2011 Guernsey - 2 stamps (0.45 & 0.52 GBP) & 1 souvenir-sheet (0.45, 0.52, 2.- GBP)

09.05.2011 Hungary - 1 souvenir-sheet (4x 200.- HUF)

17.03.2011 Iceland - 2 stamps (165.- & 220.- ISK)
05.05.2011 Ireland - 2 stamps (0.55 & 0.82 €)
28.09.2011 Isle of Man - 1 stamp (0.68 GBP) out of a set of 6 stamps
09.05.2011 Italy - 2 stamps (0.60 & 0.75 €)

08.02.2011 Jersey - 2 stamps (0.45 & 0.55 GBP) out of a set of 4 stamps

21.04.2011 Kazakhstan - 1 stamp (250.- KZT)
09.05.2011 Kosovo - 2 stamps (1.- & 2.- €) & 1 souvenir-sheet (2.- €)

08.04.2011 Latvia - 2 stamps (0.55 & 1.20 LVL)
06.06.2011 Liechtenstein - 1 stamp (1.40 CHF)
23.04.2011 Lithuania - 2 stamps (2x 2.45 LTL) 
17.05.2011 Luxembourg - 2 stamps (0.60 & 0.85 €)

05.05.2011 Macedonia - 2 stamps (50.- & 100.- MKD) & 1 souvenir-sheet (100.- MKD)
09.05.2011 Madeira - 1 stamp (0.68 €) & 1 souvenir-sheet (2x 0.68 €)
09.05.2011 Malta - 2 stamps (0.37 & 1.19 €) 
07.05.2011 Moldova - 2 stamps (4.20 & 5.40 MDL)
03.05.2011 Monaco - 2 stamps (0.58 & 0.75 €)
21.04.2011 Montenegro - 2 stamps (2x 0.90 €) & 1 souvenir-sheet (2x 0.90 €)

10.06.2011 Norway - 2 stamps (12.- & 14.- NOK)
05.05.2011 Poland - 1 stamp (3.- PLN)
09.05.2011 Portugal - 1 stamp (0.68 €) & 1 souvenir-sheet (2x 0.68 €)

27.04.2011 Romania - 2 stamps (2.40 & 9.10 RON)
05.05.2011 Russia - 1 stamp (15.- RUB)

05.04.2011 San Marino - 2 stamps (0.60 & 0.65 €)
05.05.2011 Serbia - 2 stamps (33.- & 66.- RSD)
06.05.2011 Slovakia - 1 stamp (0.90 €)
27.05.2011 Slovenia - 2 stamps (0.49 & 0.92 €)
04.04.2011 Spain - 1 stamp (0.65 €)
24.03.2011 Sweden - 2 stamps (2x 12.- SEK)
05.05.2011 Switzerland - 1 stamp (1.- CHF)
09.05.2011 Turkey - 2 stamps (0.90 & 1.30 TRY)
20.12.2011 Ukraine - 2 stamps (2.20 & 4.30 UAH)

21.06.2011 Vatican - 2 stamps (0.60 & 0.75 €)


no issue this year from: the Netherlands ; Georgia


Monday, December 12

Guernsey 1999 - focus

Guernsey

27th April 1999 - "Nature reserves and Parks"
design: Colleen Corlett
printer: Walsall Security Printers

This Summer I’ve visited for the first time the Channel Islands. As a Europa stamps collector I learnt to know very well the islands of Jersey and Guernsey through their stamps issues. This I decided to see it all in real !

The Channel Islands are an archipelago composed by five main islands. The three biggest islands issue stamps : Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney. The first two also issue Europa stamps but Alderney don’t. The other two main islands: Sarq and Herm don’t issue stamps… or better said, don’t issue stamps anymore.

In 1999 Guernsey issued a set of four stamps, two bearing the Europa logo featuring the nature of the island of Herm. It’s one of the rare Europa issue featuring a stamp on stamp !


The island of Herm is part of the bailiwick of Guernsey and is rent to a tenant ! During twenty years, from 1949 until 1969, the tenant of Herm decided to produce the island's own stamps. You can see some of those stamps on the 1999 Europa stamps of Guernsey. Those private issues from the islands of Herm were available with or without perforation and were triangular.



One more intersting thing about Herm stamps is that they also issued Europa stamps ! Well, not official ones but stamps with the word "Europa" written on it. Those "bogus" Europa stamps were issued in 1962 and 1963. They also over printed stamps with the word "Europa" in 1961, 1964, 1966


If you are interested in those Herm stamps, you can find them on auction websites are at around 7€ for a full set of 12 (you can find other Herm issues as well). You can also visit this website dedicated to Herm's stamps (sell also some sets).

Wednesday, December 7

PostEurop's annual review

Europe

PostEurop's Philately Working Group published their annual review in the latest issue PostEuropNews.

Istanbul, from a New Strategy to Deliverable
Last year, we were in Istanbul, to hold our Philatelic Forum. After reviewing the EUROPA stamp competition results survey, we took many decisions impacting the future of EUROPA stamps. It was time to adopt a new strategy beginning with the legal framework. There was a need to officially clarify the situation with regards to the use of the EUROPA logo and need to adhere and respect logo guidelines before issuing EUROPA stamps. This new logo was launched and registered internationally.

logo used with the permission of PostEurop

Starting from January 2012, this logo will be the only authorized trademark, bringing us an important step further in the right direction. As mentioned earlier, 2011 was a transition year for our philatelists. Needless to say, we had been very busy all year round with the EUROPA 2011 theme: Forests, which was aligned and realized in full collaboration with the United Nations Program, International Year of Forests. Our First Jury prize Other important aspect discussed in Istanbul was on increasing the votes and growing the coverage of the competition whilst rebuilding the link we had with Philatelists. Therefore, we introduced two innovations: a Jury Prize and a collection album. The Jury Prize was managed by David E. Failor.


Our first Jury was composed of independent designers or philatelists experts. We had Cyprus Post (Cyprus) emerge as winner of the very first Jury Prize. An announcement was made at the Brussels Town Hall amongst hundreds of passionate philatelists… And the winner goes to... The Jury prize was also a teaser for the main competition: the most beautiful EUROPA stamp of the year. The classic online competition ran well this year, as we received more than 5,500 votes (compared to 1,305 last year) with PTT Turkish Post (Turkey) emerging as a clear winner despite tough competition. The second and third place went to Magyar Posta (Hungary) and CTT Correios (Portugal). For Hungary, it was their 5th time in a row at winning a prize. During the Plenary Assembly Dinner, Mr. Jan Sertons, who was part of the Jury handed out the Jury prize to Mr. Andreas Gregoriou, the CEO of the Cyprus Post (Cyprus). Mr. Jean-Paul Forceville, our Chairman, handed out the Gold EUROPA stamp prize proudly to Mr. Osman Tural, CEO of PTT Turkist Post (Turkey). Behold, another surprise The biggest surprise was kept for the morning after. On every desk, of every delegate was the beautiful and rare EUROPA Collector Album (below).


This limited edition album was designed and produced by PostEurop headquarters. The richness of it comes from all the stamps we received from our members. 41 operators participated in the project and there were in total 69 real EUROPA stamps in the album. This Collector Album will be used in future as the official list of EUROPA published stamps. Only stamps that strictly fulfilled the official guidelines will be included in these albums. Building on this, the 2012 EUROPA theme will be “Visit…” and the album can be used as a tourism promotional tool in which each Europa stamp presents a “window” to discover more about our members’ country. Another innovative element will be the use of new technologies such as Quick Response (QR) codes and augmented reality (AR) to make EUROPA Stamps more interactive by enabling viewers to further discover more things behind the stamps and virtually travel across Europe. PostEurop believes that this edition will be even stronger than the 2011 edition. As it will touch your country, it will be important to have the most attractive, recent and accurate information possible as well as the best support possible. And on that, PostEurop really counts on you!

Monday, December 5

Belgium 2012

Belgium

Date of Issue: 13th February 2012

one souvenir-sheet of two stamps (2x Europe 3rd class value)

Wednesday, November 30

Iceland 2012

Iceland

Date of Issue: 3rd May 2012

two stamps 50g to Europe (165 ISK) & 50g outside Europe (220 ISK)


both stamps are issued in mini-sheets of 10 stamps.

both stamps are also issued in two booklets of 10 stamps each - NOTE the stamps from the booklet are self adhesive

Saturday, November 26

Åland 2012

Åland

Date of Issue: 9th May 2012

one stamps (Europa value)

Monday, November 21

Iceland - Norden 2012

Iceland - Norden

Date of Issue: 21th March 2012

1 stamp (250g. value inland) issued in one souvenir sheet

Wednesday, November 16

Åland - Norden 2012

Åland - Norden

Date of Issue: 21th March 2012

1 stamp (världen value) issued in one souvenir sheet

Monday, November 14

Finland 2012

Finland

Date of Issue: 7th May 2012

two stamps (2x 2nd class value) - NOTE both stamps are self-adhesive


both stamps are issued in a mini-sheet of 10 stamps (five of each)

Monday, November 7

Jersey 2012

Jersey

Date of Issue: 10th January 2012

two stamps (0.49 & 0.59 GBP) out of a set of four stamps (only those two stamps are bearing the official Europa logo).


Both stamps are issued in mini-sheets of 10 stamps

Wednesday, November 2

Switzerland 1979 - focus

Switzerland

30th April 1979 - "Postal history"
design: Klaus Oberli
engraving: Max Müller
printer: Wertzeichendruckerei PTT - Bern
FDC (picture on Zasa-stamp blog)

The first Swiss stamp was issued in 1850, but before that stamps were issued in Switzerland by Cantons. Zurich was the first canton to issue post stamps in 1843 followed by Geneva. But the most famous Swiss stamp ever is the cantonal stamp issued by Basel in 1845: the "Basel Dove". This stamp was really modern for that time, was multi-colored and the dove was white embossed on a red field. Until today it is considered as "one of the most beautiful stamps ever produced" !


In the city of Basel where this stamp come from, the local post asked the architect Melchior Berri to design a mailboxes inspired by the Basel Dove stamp. One of the two 1979 Europa stamps issued by Switzerland is reproducing one of those famouse mailboxes. Today in Basel they are still six of those mailboxes remaining of 1845 and still in use ! Go to Basel and try to find them !


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