Happy Easter from Chicken and Rabbit! They are painting a huge egg with catkin and tail. Can you imagine, to whom they want to give the egg?
On the sheet there are ten stamps.
Details: A 1st class self-adhesive stamp
Designer: Janne Harju
Source: Finland
published April 2nd, 2012
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It is estimated that there are 350 million colour blind people in the world.Research into the causes of colour blindness hasrevealed that it entails restrictions and consequences: “How to choose or buy clothes? What to answer a child when it asks you to pass the green pencil because it wants to paint a tree? How to interpret the subway map if the lines are represented by colours? How to perform a professional vocation when they are all anchored in the colour realm?
published April 2nd, 2012
The U.S. Postal Service celebrates the centennial of the gift of more than 3,000 cherry blossom trees from the city of Tokyo to Washington, DC, by dedicating the Cherry Blossom Centennial Forever stamps at the National Cherry Blossom Festival today. All 100 million stamps are now available at Post Offices nationwide and online at www.usps.com/shop or by calling 1-800-STAMP24.
published April 1st, 2012
Search and rescue services constitute the theme of the 2012 Norden stamps. For centuries, Icelandic fishermen have lived with the dangers of the sea. Many lives have been lost in the struggle with the forces of nature.
published April 1st, 2012
Most original form of Serbian folk architecture in our country is without a doubt, log cabin osacanka. Between dinar wooden houses, as appointed by individual researchers, ethnologists and historians of architecture and chalets osacanke can be set equal sign.
published March 31st, 2012
Part two of the Nordic series the North by the Sea features the actual life at sea. Åland’s contribution to the series shows professional fishermen trawling from a fishing boat. Since the dawn of time, fishing has been an important Åland industry.
published March 31st, 2012
The latest stamps in Magyar Posta’s series of outstanding Hungarian performing artists commemo-rate the centenary of birth of the actress and singer Katalin Karády, and the actor and film and stage director Zoltán Várkonyi. The stamps were made by printing company Pénzjegynyomda based on the design of the Kossuth Prize winning graphic artist István Orosz. The set of stamps was officially re-leased at the World Theatre Day Gala in the Katona József Theatre in Kecskemét by deputy CEO Gábor Bakati.
published March 30th, 2012
Iceland has a unique position when it comes to energy. Icelanders use more energy per capita than any other country. The proportion of renewable energy sources is also unusually high. In 2008 approximately 80% of the total national energy consumption came from domestic and renewable energy sources.
published March 30th, 2012
Magyar Posta is expanding its regular stamp series Health Tourism – Spas with two new de-nominations. The philatelic novelties depict characteristic interior and exterior details of Bu-dapest’s Király and Rudas Baths. The graphics of the first day covers and the postmarks are decorated with compositions related to the baths. The stamps were made by printing com-pany Pénzjegynyomda using artistic photographs by József Hajdú and designs by the graphic artist Ferenc Svindt.
published March 29th, 2012
Naturally, the effects of this fact are primarily felt by the countries most dependent on the sea, such as the Faroe Islands.
published March 29th, 2012
This stamp issue commemorates a century of compulsory enrolment to vote in Australian federal elections. In 1912, Australia became the first Commonwealth nation to introduce compulsory enrolment.
published March 28th, 2012
