Great-Britain 2017

Great Britain

Date of Issue 15th February 2017

one stamp (1st class value) out of a set of 6 stamps (only this stamp is bearing the official Europa logo)

Great Britain 2014

Great Britain

Date of Issue 18th September 2014

one stamp (1st class value GBP) out of a set of 6 stamps (only this stamp is bearing the official Europa logo)

Great Britain 2013

Great Britain

Date of Issue 13th August 2013

one stamp (1st class value GBP) issued in a souvenir-sheet of 4 stamps (only this stamp is bearing the official Europa logo)

NOTE - the Europa stamp will also be issued (on 19th September) in a retail booklet of 6 self-adhesive stamps !

source : Norphil

Great Britain 2012

Great Britain

Date of Issue 10th April 2012

one stamp (1st class value GBP) out of a set of fourteen (!) stamps (only this stamp is bearing the official Europa logo)



NOTE: this stamp is issued in a 60 (M to Z) and a 30 se-tenant stamps sheet (A to Z)

Great-Britain 1991 - focus

Great Britain

23rd April 1991 - "European aerospace"
design: Jean-Michel Folon
printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd

Many stamp collectors collects stamps related to space. They call it astrophilately or space philately. 1991 must have been an interesting Europa stamps year for all those collectors (as later 2009 with the Astronomy theme) but for my part space on stamps is not really my cup of tea. Rockets, satellites is a bit boring to me.

But two countries that year issued stamps with a more poetic touch, the Netherlands and Great-Britain. I will focus in this post on the British issue as I love the designer of those stamps : Jean-Michel Folon.



Folon was a Belgian painter and sculptor who produced many posters but also many stamps during his life. The set he produced for Great-Britain in 1991 is composed of 2 pairs of stamps. The first pair is called "Man looking at Space" and the second one "Space looking at Man". It is a very poetic point of view showing space through the eyes of man, how small we are in front of this immensity lost on our little blue planet. In the first pair of stamps the cosmos is our head as a dream and in the second one in our eyes more like a kind of reality.

If you are visiting Belgium one day, the Folon foundation in La Hulpe (near Brussels) is really worth a visit !

Great Britain 2011

Great Britain

Date of Issue: 22nd March 2011

one souvenir-sheet of four stamps (only the 1st class value GBP is bearing the official Europa logo)

NOTE: it's the fist time a stamp will bear both the WWF logo and the Europa logo !

Both thematics are very popular among philatelists which means this souvenir-sheet is a must have !

Great Britain 2010

Great Britain

Date of Issue: 12th October 2010

one stamp (1st class value GBP) out of a set of six (!) stamps (only this stamp is bearing the official Europa logo) and one souvenir-sheet of four stamps (only the 1st class value GBP is bearing the official Europa logo)

Great Britain 2009

Great Britain

Date of Issue: 8th October 2009

one stamp (1st class value GBP) out of a set of ten (!) stamps issued in a se-tenant block (only this stamp is bearing the official Europa logo)

Sir Martin Ryle - In 1959 the Radio Astronomy Group at the University of Cambridge led by Professor Martin Ryle published the Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources (3C) which led to the discovery of the first quasi-stellar object (quasar). It was a landmark map of stellar sources and Ryle’s work led to confirmation of the Big Bang Theory. Ryle was knighted in 1966 and awarded the Nobel Prize for his work in 1974.

Great Britain

Great Britain - United Kingdom

Capital: London
Languages: English
Population: 60,975,000
Currency: British Pound - GBP
Internet code: .uk
Status: Parliamentary constitutional monarchy

more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom

Royal Mail



PostEurop member: yes
UPU member: yes
Sepac member: no
Norden member: no

Europa stamps: since 1960-1961, 1969, 1980-1999, 2001->

Official site: http://www.royalmail.com/portal/stamps
info: philatelic.enquiries@royalmail.com

"Great-Britain as many other countries issued their first Europa stamp in 1960, then their issues where irregular: 1961, 1969, and then non-stop since 1980 only (with an exception in 2000) even if some British territories as Jersey, Guernsey or the Isle of Man produced Europa stamps since the mid-seventies!

Great-Britain as the inventor of the "stamp" is the only country in the world issuing stamps without adding the name of their country on it, only the face or the monogram of the Queen (or King) is shown on them.

The British Europa stamps are often part of a larger set where only some of the stamps are baring the Europa stamps logo."

Great Britain 2008

Great Britain

Date of Issue: 5th February 2008

one stamp (1st class value GBP) out of a set of six stamps (only this stamp is bearing the official Europa logo)

Great Britain 2007

Great Britain

Date of Issue: 26th July 2007

two stamps (1st & 0.48 GBP) out of a set of six stamps (only those two stamps are bearing the official Europa logo).

Great Britain 2006

Great Britain

Date of Issue: 3rd October 2006

Only two stamps (1st & 0.50 GBP) out of this set of five stamps are bearing the official Europa logo.