France
Date of Issue: 9th May 2026
one stamp (2.25 €)
This stamp is issued in a sheet of 12 stamps
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Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Thursday, March 19
Sunday, March 30
France 2025
France
Date of Issue: 9th May 2025
one stamp (2.10 €)
This stamp is issued in a sheet of 15 stamps
The stamp depicts an Attic Oenochoe (wine jug made in Greece) enhanced with gold discovered in the tomb of a Celtic prince from the fifth century BC. in Lavau (Aube) by Inrap (National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research)NOTE - France first announced the stamp below before replacing it with the new design. No official information has yet been released about this change. We can imagine that the reason is to have a design closer to the official theme of ‘National archaeological discoveries’. The first drawing, with a dinosaur skeleton, is more about a palaeontological discovery...
Wednesday, March 27
France 2024
France
Date of Issue: 10th May 2024
one stamp (1.96 €)
This stamp is issued in a sheet of 15 stamps
Wednesday, March 8
Tuesday, March 8
France 2022
France
Date of Issue: 9th May 2022
one stamp (1.65 €)
This stamp is issued in a mini-sheet of 9 stamps
NOTE - The legend of Mélusine is also used by Luxembourg on one of their two Europa stamps, this year!
Mélusine is a figure of European folklore, a female spirit of fresh water in a holy well or river. She is usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist down. Source Wikipedia.
Monday, March 15
France 2021
FranceDate of Issue: 25th May 2021
one stamp (1.50 €)
this stamp will be issued in a sheet of 15 stamps with an illustrated border depicting other endangered animals
Thursday, March 12
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Friday, March 31
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Monday, March 23
Thursday, April 10
Tuesday, March 19
Wednesday, April 25
France 2012
FranceDate of Issue: 21st May 2012
one stamp (0.77 €)
note: this stamp exists also in a self adhesive version
Tuesday, September 20
France 1973 - focus
France16th April 1973 - common design "Post, telegraph & telephone"
Hôtel de ville de Bruxelles
design & engraving: Pierre Forget
printer: Imprimerie des timbres-poste et des valeurs fiduciaires (ITVF)
1973 was the last year Europa stamps were issued using a common design. The main reason of this change was the monotony of common designs issues among philatelists. Before the introduction of a common theme in 1974, the CEPT introduced a new rule in 1971, the right to issue a second stamp with a free subject as design. One country who used that new rule from the start was France. Between 1971 and 1973, France issued a second stamp depicting a famous building of a European city (Venice in 1971, Aachen in 1972, Brussels in 1973).
I decided to focus on the 1973 stamp representing the town hall of Brussels. This stamp is part of a 2 stamps set, the other stamp depicting the common design made by the Norwegian artist Leif Frimann Anisdahl. This French stamp has been designed and engraved by the French artist Pierre Forget. He designed many stamps during his live for France, Monaco and Andorra. Besides this issue he is also the author of the 1975 french Europa issue. In 1979 he received the prize for the World's best stamp (!) for for the International year of the child french stamp. You can have a look at all Pierre Forget's stamps on this French stamp database: Phil-Ouest
The town hall of Brussels is a beautiful Gothic building from the Middle Ages. It is located on the Grand Place (market square) in the heart of Brussels' old town. This Saturday this building will be the showcase of the ceremony of the first "Best Europa stamp - Jury prize" ! PostEurop decided to give two Best Europa stamps prizes each year from now on: The Best Europa stamp will be selected as usual through the internet voting (held earlier this year on PostEurop's website) and the winner will be announced in October this year.
Besides this elder prize, a jury of 8 members composed by stamp designers, former philatelic managers and myself will select the stamp which will receive the first "Best Europa stamp - Jury prize" ! Next week you'll know who is the winner !
source of the images : http://www.ibolli.it/indexes/cept/index.php
Wednesday, March 9
France 2011
FranceDate of Issue: 9th May 2011
one stamp (0.75 €)
note: this stamp exists also in a self adhesive version
My friend Eric on his blog shows the three other designs of the stamp but who were not selected ! I must admit that I like very much the one with the deer !
Friday, April 30
Monday, May 4
Thursday, December 11
France
FranceCapital: Paris
Languages: French
Population: 64,473,140
Currency: Euro - EUR
Internet code: .fr
Status: Unitary semi-presidential republic
more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France
La Poste
PostEurop member: yes
UPU member: yes
Sepac member: no
Norden member: no
Europa stamps: since 1956 ->
Official site: http://actutimbree.laposte.fr/
info: spp@laposte.fr
"France is one of the 6 first countries who issued the first Europa stamps in 1956. They issued each year Europa stamps since that year!
Four French artits designed the common Europa stamps. Daniel Gonzague, for the first ever Europa stamp issue in 1956; Georges Bétemps in 1964, for the 5 years of the CEPT; Jacky Larrivière, 1984, for the 25 years of the CEPT and Jean-Paul Cousin in 2000 in order to celebrate de new millenium."
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