San Marino 2003 - focus

San Marino

18th March 2003 - Poster art
Il manifesto - Armando Testa 1968
design : Franco Filanci
printer: Cartor security printing

I asked one of my philatelic friends which was his favourite Europa stamp ever and he told me the 28 euro-cent stamp from San Marino 2003 !

Well, I don't know why exactly this stamp is his favourite Europa stamp among the thousands of Europa stamps issued, but I guess it may have something to do with those two deep blue eyes you see on the poster depicted on this stamp.

PostEurop selected an original subject for the 2003 Europa stamps theme: "Poster art". We knew already stamps on stamps, but now we have posters on stamps !

San Marino chosed two different posters for their Europa issue. A 1893 old poster of the French painter Toulouse Lautrec and a a more modern Italian poster of 1968.


This poster was designed by Armando Testa, a very famous Italian designer who specialised in industrial design and advertisement. He became famous by producing the official poster of the 1960 Olympics in Rome and later for advertising campaigns for well known Italian brands as Lavazza coffee, Borsalino hats, Pirelli tyres or Bacci chocolates. He founded is own advertising studio in his home town of Turin and it's still one of the biggest advertising companies from Italy.

This 1968 poster "Stilla collirio gocce azzurre per gli occhi" was produced for the Italian eyewash product "Stilla".

source of the images : http://www.ibolli.it/indexes/cept/index.php

Germany 2012

Germany

Date of Issue: 2nd May 2012

one stamp (0.55 €)


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

Faroe Islands - Norden 2012

Faroe Islands - Norden

Date of Issue: 21th March 2012

2 stamps (2x 10.50 DKK) issued in one souvenir sheet

Armenia 2011

Armenia

Date of Issue: 14th December 2011

two stamps (2x 350.- AMD)


Both stamps are issued in mini-sheets of 10 stamps

Ukraine 2011

Ukraine

Date of Issue: 20th December 2011

two stamps (2.20 & 4.30 UAH)


both stamps are issued in a mini-sheet of 12 stamps (6 of each)

NOTE - Ukrposhta announced a first Europa issue for April/May 2011 but was then cancelled. Hereunder the design of the cancelled issue:

© Alexander and Sergei Kharuk

the designers of that canceled issue are Alexander and Sergei Kharuk. They already designed in the past, the 2008 Europa issue and the 50 years Europa CEPT stamps issue in 2006.

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

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