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Some of Australia’s most popular native baby animals are featured in this delightfully illustrated stamp issue. The animals featured on the stamps are a bilby, dingo, kangaroo, koala and sugar glider.

This issue also includes five stamp and coin covers, each depicting a different baby animal. These special covers feature an exclusive $1.00 aluminium-bronze coin from the Perth Mint, which are only available as part of this product. The stamp and coin covers will be available at regular intervals over a six month period.

The Bilby (Macrotis lagotis) is a nocturnal marsupial with distinctive rabbit-like ears, greyish fur and a beautiful bushy black tail with a white tip. It survives on a diet of seeds, grubs, bulbs, fruit and insects. Bilby babies stay in the pouch for about 80 days.

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published July 4th, 2011

United Nations General Assembly in December 2009 adopted Resolution 64/134, which is a period of 12 August 2010 to 12 August 2011 when was proclaimed the International Year of Youth. Under the theme of dialogue and mutual understanding, its labeling should be to encourage people of different cultural, religious and age characteristics in promoting the ideals of peace, solidarity and respect for human rights.

Around the world, government, youth and other civil society organizations are invited to symbolically mark the current year, the organization of those activities that will contribute to the continued promotion of youth and mutual understanding, but also emphasize the advantages and importance of active participation in all aspects of society.

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published July 4th, 2011

The U.S. Postal Service have dedicated a new sheet of stamps honouring 12 of the nation’s most important and influential industrial designers. The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum was the setting for the dedication.

The 12 designers who are honoured on individual stamps include Peter Müller-Munk, Frederick Hurten Rhead, Raymond Loewy, Donald Deskey, Walter Dorwin Teague, Henry Dreyfuss, Norman Bel Geddes, Dave Chapman, Greta von Nessen, Eliot Noyes, Russel Wright and Gilbert Rohde.

“Encompassing everything from furniture and electric kitchen appliances to corporate office buildings and passenger trains, the work of these designers defined the look of modern America, and in doing, revolutionized the way we live and work,” said Dean Granholm, Postal Service vice president of Delivery and Post Office Operations, at today’s ceremony.

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published July 3rd, 2011

On the 30 June, 2011, An Post issued a stamp to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of Amnesty International.

Amnesty International is a worldwide movement that campaigns for internationally recognised human rights for all, regardless of political or religious affiliations. It was founded on 28 May, 1961, after a British lawyer, Peter Beneson was reading an article in a newspaper while he was on the London underground, on his way to work. It told the story of two students in Portugal who had been jailed for raising a toast to freedom.

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published July 2nd, 2011

2011 is a special year for the Royal Family, with the celebration of the 85th birthday of Her Majesty The Queen, who has reigned for over five decades, and the 90th birthday of her husband, His Royal Highness Prince Philip. Although the Queen was born on 21 April, the tradition is for Her Majesty to celebrate her birthday on a Saturday in June – an event which is officially marked by Trooping the Colour. We have compiled some fascinating facts about this spectacular event, which this year takes place on 11 June:- •The Queen has attended Trooping the Colour every year of her reign, apart from 1955 when the event was cancelled due to a national rail strike.

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published July 2nd, 2011

The Philatelic Bureau of MaltaPost p.l.c. will issue on 2 July 2011 a philatelic commemorative set of 20 stamps entitled Malta Buses – “The End of an Era” to mark the withdrawal from service of Malta’s iconic buses.

The stamps are reproductions of original artworks by local artist Cedric Galea Pirotta who was commissioned to paint 20 of the most popular buses covering the principal routes throughout Malta and Gozo, each in its original route livery. The routes depicted in the stamps are: Birkirkara, Birkirkara – St. Julian’s, Cospicua, Gozo, Gudja-Ghaxaq, Kalafrana, Lija, Mellieha, Mosta, Naxxar, Rabat, Siggiewi, Sliema, Zabbar, Zebbug-Siggiewi, Zejtun and Zurrieq. The three other buses included in the commemorative set are those for “Private Hire”, the Gozo Mail Bus and the Magirus Deutz representing “All Routes”. 3,580,000 stamps carry a face value of €0.20 while 200,000 stamps carry a face value of €0.69.

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published July 1st, 2011

This issue celebrates the art of performing a story live through a combination of words, gestures, music, dance, vocality, expressivity, sounds, designs and scenery.
The artist who made the original design used a chromatic approach mainly to underline the emotions that the theatre arouses in the spectator watching acting, ballet, tragedies or comedies.
As a result, the souvenir sheet is covered from the top to the bottom with images of dancers and actors performing a play or opera, masks from Greek theatre and Venetian Commedia dell’Arte, parts of scenery, architecture and rays of light which, together with the symbols of the Palazzo Pubblico, the three Towers of San Marino and the allegory of the Statue of Liberty, wish to recall the importance of this visual art in the artistic panorama of the world. 

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published July 1st, 2011

Croatian Post has released three new commemorative postage stamps in the Croatian Fauna series. Animal species which inhabit the territory of the Republic of Croatia have been joined, on stamps, by three endangered species: the brown bear (face value HRK 1.60), Eleonora’s Falcon (face value HRK 3.10) and the Mediterranean Monk Seal (face value HRK 4.60).

The authors of the photographs featured on the stamps are Đuro Huber (brown bear), Gvido Piasevoli (Eleonora’s Falcon) and Gianni Pechario (Mediterranean Monk Seal). The stamps themselves were created by Tomislav Vlainić, a designer from Split. They were printed in 200,000 copies per motif and issued in twenty-stamp sheets. Ten-stamp booklets where also issued as well as maximum cards, each motif separately.
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published June 30th, 2011

Support a good cause – put the self-adhesive stamp for the Danish Rheumatism Association (5.50 + 0.50 DKK, 8.00 + 0.50 DKK) on your letters.

The charity stamp supports the work of the Danish Rheumatism Association, which has been working since 1936 to secure a better quality of life for people with arthritis, and raises funds for research into rheumatic diseases. The DKK 0.50 surcharge per stamp sold will go to support the work of the association, and will benefit the many people affected by rheumatic diseases. 

These stamps can be viewed and purchased through WOPA, under 2011 Stamp Issues, Danish Rheumatism Association

Technical Details

Issue Date: 09.03.2011
Designer: Post Danmark Stamps
Printer: Offset
Process: Offset
Colours: 4-colour offset
Size: 29 x 39 mm.
Values: 6,00 DKK, 8,50 DKK 

Source: www.wopa-stamps.com

published June 30th, 2011

Canada Post announced yesterday a third stamp to complete the Royal Wedding collection. The domestic Permanent™ stamp features a candid photo of the newlyweds in their open landau shortly after completing their wedding vows at Westminster Abbey. The stamp will commemorate the first Royal Visit to Canada following their wedding. One million booklets of 10 stamps are available for sale online and by mail order and at post offices across Canada. The two other stamps were issued on the wedding day, April 29, and already over 5 million stamps have been sold.

“This stamp is an excellent way for Canadians to commemorate the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s first visit to Canada,” said the Honourable Steven Fletcher, Minister of State (Transport). “I am pleased and proud that Canada will welcome the Royal Couple on their first official visit abroad.”

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published June 29th, 2011

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, this joint issue between San Marino and Italy commemorates the figure of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Fleeing from the Austrians following the events of 1849, the “Hero of the two Worlds” sought refuge in San Marino with his companion Anita and his troops. At that time, the Republic of San Marino was participating actively in the Risorgimento movement: it offered shelter to illustrious Italian exiles, while numerous Sammarinese volunteers took part in insurrectionary movements and the wars for Italian independence.

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published June 29th, 2011