Armenian post of Nagorno-Karabakh 2009

Armenian post of Nagorno-Karabakh

Date of Issue: 14th September 2009

three stamps (120.-, 350.- & 650.- AMD)


those stamps are published in mini-sheets of 10 stamps


NOTE : the stamps issued by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic aren't recognized on an international level, not by the UPU nor by PostEurop.

Those stamps are listed in the most stamps catalogue (Gibbons, Yvert & Tellier, Michel) and most Europa stamps collectors collect those stamps anyway, I decided to publish them on my blog, from now on, even if they aren't official stamp issues.

Armenia 2009

Armenia

Date of Issue: 1st July 2009

one stamp (350.- AMD)


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

Faroe Islands - Sepac 2009

Faroe Islands - Sepac

Date of Issue: 16th September 2009

one stamp (10.- DKK)

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.

Montenegro - [Crna Gora]

Montenegro - [Crna Gora]

Capital: Podgorica
Languages: Montenegrin
Population: 678,177
Currency: Euro - EUR
Internet code: .me
Status: Parliamentary republic

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


Pošta Crne Gore



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

Europa stamps: since 2005->

Official site: http://www.postacg.me
info: info@postacg.me

"Last former Yugoslav republic to get independent in 2006, they already issued their first Europa stamps in 2005."

"Montenegro issues are most of the time composed of a set with a souvenir sheet and sometimes a booklet."

"The first issue of 2005 is very rare and reached value records."

Portugal

Portugal

Capital: Lisbon
Languages: Portuguese
Population: 10,676,910
Currency: Euro - EUR
Internet code: .pt
Status: Parliamentary republic

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


CTT - Correios



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

Europa stamps: since 1960->

Official site: http://www.ctt.pt/
info: mercadointfil@ctt.pt

"Portugal issue Europa stamps since 1960. From 1961, 1962 and 1963, they didn't follow the common design, having their own."

"Since 1977 they also issue a souvenir sheet with every issue."

"The autonomous island of Madeira and the archipelago of the Azores issue also Europa stamps since 1981. Their issuing programme is closely linked with the one of Portugal."

Poland - [Polska]

Poland - [Polska]

Capital: Warsaw
Languages: Polish
Population: 38,130,302
Currency: Złoty - PLN
Internet code: .pl
Status: Parliamentary republic

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


Poczta Polska



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

Europa stamps: since 1991->

Official site: http://www.poczta-polska.pl/znaczki/en/index.php
info: pcf@centrala.poczta-polska.pl

"As many other former communist countries, Poland issued their first Europa stamps in 1991. Since then they issue one or two stamps each year."

Norway - [Norge - Noreg]

Norway - [Norge - Noreg]

Capital: Oslo
Languages: Norwegian
Population: 4,812,200
Currency: Norwegian krone - NOK
Internet code: .no
Status: Parliamentary democracy under constitutional monarchy

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


Posten Norge



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

Europa stamps: since 1960, 1962-1967, 1969, 1973-1992, 2002->

Official site: http://www.posten.no
info: kundeservice@posten.no

"Norway as their other Scandinavian neighbors, Denmark and Sweden, issued their first Europa stamp in 1960."

"During 10 years, from 1993 until 2002, Norway didn't issue any Europa stamps anymore."

"Twice a Norwegian artist made the Europa stamps common design. Arne Holm in 1963 et ten years later in 1973, Leif Frimann Anisdahl made the last common design before the thematic issues."

Monaco

Monaco

Capital: Monaco-Ville
Languages: French
Population: 32,965
Currency: Euro - EUR
Internet code: .mc
Status: Constitutional monarchy and Principality

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


La Poste - Monaco



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

Europa stamps: since 1962 ->

Official site: http://www.oetp-monaco.com
info: oetp@gouv.mc

"Monaco issued their first Europa stamps in 1962 as a 4 stamps serie but they did not depict the common design."

"Since 1964 Monaco issued Europa stamps with the common design."

"In 2003 Monaco won the Best Europa stamp competition organized by PostEurop

Moldova

Moldova

Capital: Chişinău
Languages: Moldovan (Romanian)
Population: 4,128,047
Currency: Moldovan leu - MDL
Internet code: .md
Status: Parliamentary republic

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


Posta Moldovei



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

Europa stamps: since 1993 ->

Official site: http://www.posta.md
info: timbres@posta.md

"Moldova was one of the first 2 ex-republics of former USSR, with Lithuania, to issue Europa stamps in 1993."

"As Malta, they issued a wrong Europa logo during some years."

Malta

Malta 

Capital: Valletta
Languages: Maltese, English
Population: 410,290
Currency: Euro - EUR
Internet code: .mt
Status: Parliamentary Republic
more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta  

Malta Post

PostEurop member: yes
UPU member: yes
Sepac member: yes
Norden member: no
Europa stamps: since 1971 ->
Official site: https://www.maltaphilately.com/
info: philately@maltapost.com

" Malta has issued their first Europa stamps in 1971 and non-stop since then."

"In 2002, they won the inaugural best Europa stamp contest organized by PostEurop."

"During some years Malta used a wrong Europa logo, as the 2002 Circus stamps."

Madeira

Madeira

Capital: Funchal
Languages: Portuguese
Population: 245,806
Currency: Euro - EUR
Internet code: .pt
Status: Autonomous region of Portugal

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


CTT - Correios



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

Europa stamps: since 1981 ->

Official site: http://www.ctt.pt/
info: mercadointfil@ctt.pt

"Their Europa stamps issuing programme is closely linked with the one of Portugal."

"As Portugal they issue each year a souvenir sheet."

Macedonia - [Македонија]

Macedonia - [Македонија]

Capital: Skopje
Languages: Macedonian, Albanian
Population: 2,114,550
Currency: Denar - MKD
Internet code: .mk
Status: Parliamentary republic

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


Makedonska Posta



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

Europa stamps: since 1996 ->

Official site: http://www.posta.com.mk/english/filatelija.aspx
info: philately@mp.com.mk

"Macedonia was in 1996 the last of the ex-republics of former Yugoslavia to issue Europa stamps."

"The text of the Macedonian stamps is in Cyrillic."

"In 2005, Macedonia issued a souvenir-sheet to commemorate the 50 years of the Europa stamps depicting four former Europa stamps. One of those stamps shows the 1996 firt Europa stamp of Macedonia with Mother Teresa."

the Netherlands - [Nederland]

the Netherlands - [Nederland]

Capital: Amsterdam
Languages: Dutch
Population: 16,500,156
Currency: Euro - EUR
Internet code: .nl
Status: Parliamentary democracy and Constitutional monarchy

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


TNT Post



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

Europa stamps: since 1956-1993, 2002, 2007-2009

Official site: http://collectclub.tntpost.nl
info: collectclub@tntpost.nl

"The Netherlands are one of the 6 founding members of the Europa stamps collection with Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg and Germany."

"They took part at the Europa stamps issues until 1993. After that year, the Dutch post said not to be interested anymore in Europa issues. In 2002, they issued two stamps on the them "circus" and we had to wait until 2007 to see them issuing Europa stamps again on a regular basis."

"Twice a Dutch artist made the Europa stamps common design: in 1958 André Van der Vossen and in 1961 Theo Kurpershoek."

Luxembourg - [Lëtzebuerg]

Luxembourg -[Lëtzebuerg]

Capital: Luxembourg
Languages: German, French, Luxembourgish
Population: 493,500
Currency: Euro - EUR
Internet code: .lu
Status: Parliamentary democracy and Constitutional grand duchy

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


P&T Luxembourg



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

Europa stamps: since 1956 ->

Official site: http://www.pt.lu/portal/Philatelie
info: contact.timbres@pt.lu

"Luxembourg is one of the 6 first countries who issued the first Europa stamps in 1956. They issued each year Europa stamps since that year!"

"Their first two series of 1956 and 1957 are still some of the most expensive stamps of all the collection."

"In 1962, the common theme was designed by the Luxembourgian artist Lex Weyer. A stylised tree with 19 leaves: 1 leaf for each 1962 member of CEPT."

Kosovo - [Kosovë]

Kosovo - [Kosovë]

Capital: Pristina
Languages: Albanian, Serbian
Population: 2,100,000
Currency: Euro - EUR
Internet code: None assigned
Status: Parliamentary republic - Independence has only been partially recognised internationally

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


Posta e Kosovës



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

Europa stamps: since 2006 ->

Official site: http://www.postaekosoves.net
info: info@postaekosoves.net

"Kosovo isn't an international recognized country."

"They first issued stamps under United Nations mission in Kosovo before issuing their own stamps since 2008."

"They aren't official members of the UPU nor PostEurop but issue each year stamps with the same Europa stamps theme and with the word "Europa" on their stamps."

"Many fake Kosovo stamps are available on the internet, the only official ones are shown on Kosovo's post website."

Lithuania - [Lietuva]

Lithuania - [Lietuva]

Capital: Vilnius
Languages: Lithuanian
Population: 3,555,179
Currency: Litas - LTL
Internet code: .lt
Status: Semi-presidential republic

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


Lietuvos Paštas



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

Europa stamps: since 1993 ->

Official site: http://www.post.lt/katalogas_en
info: postage.stamps@post.lt

"Lithuania was the first Baltic State to issue an Europa stamp and this
was in 1993, one year before Estonia and Latvia."

Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein

Capital: Vaduz
Languages: German
Population: 35,322
Currency: Swiss Franc - CHF
Internet code: .li
Status: Constitutional monarchy

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


Liechtensteinische Post



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

Europa stamps: since 1960 ->

Official site: http://www.philatelie.li
info: briefmarken@post.li

"Liechtenstein made a remarked entry in the Europa stamps collection, when in 1960, on the first day of issue, they sold out all the 322'000 copies of their first Europa stamp!"

"Liechtenstein never stopped issuing Europa stamps since 1960 but started depicting the common theme only since 1966."