europa stamps

Wednesday, December 15

Iceland - Sepac 2011

Iceland - Sepac

Date of Issue: 15th September 2011

one stamp (50 g. to Europe value) out of a pair (only the left stamp is bearing the offical Sepac logo).

the pair is issued in a mini-sheet of 10 stamps (5 of each)

first design of the set with another value

Friday, December 10

Iceland 2011

Iceland

Date of Issue: 17th March 2011

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 self-adhesive stamps each.

First version of the stamps published in early 2011.
Note that the values changed and are now placed on the top.
A recycle symbol replaced the sun logo on the second stamp.

Monday, December 6

New logo !

Europe

On the 2011 Europa stamps you'll see a new logo. A small square and black & white element, symbolic reminder of the mailbox, has been added in front of the word Europa.

logo used with the permission of PostEurop

As it is impossible to register a plain text-logo, a design element had to be added to the text "Europa". PostEurop will with this new logo be able to have a better control on missuse and on non official Europa stamps issues.

This new logo can already be seen on the 2010 Europa stamp issue of Switzerland. The Swiss post has the copyright rights on the Europa logo. In 2011 this logo will be featured on each official Europa stamp issue.

The present Europa logo is in use since 1993. That year PostEurop took over from the CEPT the Europa stamps issues.

Friday, December 3

4th europa stamps blog poll

Europe

4th europa stamps blog poll

Result of the Grand final !

the Faroe Islands are our winner ! With 28% of the votes they are the winner of this 4th europa stamps blog poll ! It was a very close race, the 10.- DKK stamp of the Faroe Islands won only by a few votes in front of the 0.82€ stamp of Ireland

look the standings here