europa stamps

Tuesday, December 20

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).

source of the images : http://www.ibolli.it/indexes/cept/index.php & http://www.hermstamps.co.uk

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!