USPS Honors Charles W. Chesnutt
Charles Waddell Chesnutt will be immortalized on a stamp in the popular Black Heritage commemorative stamp series issued by the U.S. Postal Service. He is considered the first African-American writer to receive major acclaim. He made an important breakthrough when his short story, "The Goophered Grapevine," appeared in the August 1887 issue of Atlantic Monthly.
USPS
January 31, 2008
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Monaco: New issue on February 11, 2008
In 2008, the town of Lourdes will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Bernadette Soubirous' eighteen visions of the "Lady". The impact of the apparitions to this sick and poor 14-year-old girl transformed the little village of Lourdes into a major site for pilgrimage, attracting more than 6 millions of Catholics every year.
OETP-MONACO.COM
January 31, 2008
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50th Anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster
On 4 February, 2008, An Post will issue a stamp to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster. The stamp features Liam Whelan with the clock commemorating the disaster, located at Old Trafford, in the background.
IRISHSTAMPS.IE
January 30, 2008
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'Birds of the Rock' issue
The 'Birds of the Rock' Definitive focuses on some of the beautiful birds that grace Gibraltar's skies. Featured birds are the Woodchat Shrike, Balearic Shearwater, Eagle Owl, Razorbill, Egyptian vulture, Mediterranean Shag, European Bee-eater, Hoopoe, Bonelli's Eagle, Greater Flamingo, Blue Rock Thrush, Honey Buzzard, Lesser Kestrel.
GIBRALTAR-STAMPS.COM
January 29, 2008
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Hong Kong: Mainland Scenery Series No.7: Huanglong
Huanglong, Sichuan was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1992. The dragon is a time-honoured icon of China, and Huanlong takes the name of "Yellow Dragon" for the unique locations of its various colorful ponds. If you look carefully at the mountain and its ponds you too might become enchanted and see a golden dragon resting there.
HONGKONGPOSTSTAMPS.COM
January 28, 2008
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Norway: St. Valentine's Day
With its annual issues of stamps for St. Valentine's Day, Norway Post has helped to encourage a fine tradition: writing love letters for St. Valentine's Day, 14 February.
14 February has become a letter-writing day all over the world. Text messages and e-mails may be the modern form of communication, but people still write letters, particularly for St. Valentine's Day. There's nothing to beat a hand-written love letter, and a letter accompanied by a romantic stamp is guaranteed success.
POSTEN.NO
January 27, 2008
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Classic Carry On and Hammer Films
2008 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the first Carry On film Carry on Sergeant and Hammer Film's iconic Dracula. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s both Carry On and Hammer Horror films were to form a staple diet of British cinema audiences going on to influence future film and TV productions, both at home and abroad, and in the case of Hammer Films, music and fashion too.
NORVIC-PHILATELICS.CO.UK
January 25, 2008
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Sporting Events and Stamp Exhibitions Coming to Austria
Austrian Post is the official sponsor of the UEFA EURO 2008, a soccer sporting event set to take place across four cities in both Austria and Switzerland from June 7-29, 2008. To mark this occasion, they have released a sheet of eight stamps illustrating the eight different venues of the event, including the Vienna Ferris Wheel, the Hohensalzburg Castle in Salzburg, the Klagenfurt Lindwurm dragon, and the goldene Dachl in Innsbruck. And the festivities don't end here. With the upcoming WIPA 2008 Vienna International Stamp Exhibition, Austrian Post has issued an additional stamp, in anticipation of the event, depicting St. Stephen's Cathedral.
STAMPS.ABOUT.COM
January 24, 2008
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Remembrance and Beyond
On 27 January 2008, the United Nations Postal Administration will issue three commemorative stamps in a mini-sheet format of 9 stamps each in the denominations of US$ 0,41, CHF 0,85, ˆ 0,65, on the theme "Remembrance and Beyond".
The stamp issue is a joint issue with the Israel Post which will issue one stamp with the same design.
UNSTAMPS.UN.ORG
January 24, 2008
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Finland: Two-stamp miniature sheet to be issued for Kimi Raikkonen
Kimi Raikkonen's 2007 Formula 1 world championship is to be celebrated with stamps. The commemorative issue is a self-adhesive miniature sheet bearing two 1st class non-value indicator stamps. The miniature sheet will be issued on 5 September 2008. The reigning world champion will get his stamp on the verge of the Belgian Grand Prix, two days before the start of the qualifying round. The designer of the miniature sheet is Antti Raudaskoski.
POSTI.FI
January 23, 2008
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Australia Post issues legends stamps
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, along with four other prominent Australians, has joined a philatelic list of national legends.
Australia Post is honouring some of the country's most generous and respected philanthropists in its 2008 release of Australian Legends stamps.
AAP
January 22, 2008
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Ireland: Chinese Year of the Rat 2008
The Chinese calendar follows a sequence of sixty years and is based on both lunar and solar movements. Chinese New Year starts on the first day of the new moon at the beginning of the year. Therefore according to the Gregorian calendar, Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year, somewhere between 21 January and 20 February. The celebrations last fifteen days and end with the Lantern Festival, which is held on the fifteenth night.
IRISHSTAMPS.IE
January 22, 2008
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Winter Landscape, Haminalahti is the Most Beautiful Stamp of the Year 2007
The winner of the Most Beautiful Stamp of the Year 2007 competition is a stamp bearing part of a painting by Ferdinand von Wright (1822–1906), entitled Winter Landscape, Haminalahti (1856, National Museum of Finland/Cygnaeus Gallery). The painting was adapted for the stamp by Paivi Vainionpaa. The winner is a 1st class non-value indicator stamp and it was issued on 24 January 2007.
POSTI.FI
January 21, 2008
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The Beauty of Austria
The orchid family of flowers includes over 25,000 species with none more magnificent than the Lady Slipper. Found in the mountainous areas of Austria, the Lady Slipper, Cypripedium calceolus L, thrives from May to July in high altitudes, sparse vegetation, and rocky terrain. A beauty in the rough and a well-known prized flower of the Austrian people.
Austrian Post celebrates the beauty of the orchid with its latest stamp issue featuring the famed Lady Slipper.
STAMPS.ABOUT.COM
January 21, 2008
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Wedding Celebrations from Ireland
The 'Wedding' stamp is designed specially for use with wedding invitations. As a wedding is one of the most important days in anyone's life, the 'Wedding' stamp allows couples to add a beautiful finishing touch which co-ordinates the stamp with the wedding stationery.
IRISHSTAMPS.IE
January 20, 2008
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Stamp honors WWII commando - Rene Autin
The first issue of the new year from St. Pierre and Miquelon honors Rene Autin, a native of St. Pierre who was part of the Kieffer Commandos, 177 Free French, attached to the British commandos, who landed on Sword Beach in Normandy on D-Day in 1944.
TOPIX.NET
January 19, 2008
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Jersey 'Europa' Letters
On 14th February 2008, Jersey Post will issue its Europa postage stamps following PostEurop's chosen theme for 2008 - 'The Letter'. The aim of this stamp issue is to encourage people to return to - or discover the art of - letter writing rather than corresponding by text or by email.
JERSEYPOST.COM
January 19, 2008
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World champion Priaulx honoured on stamps
Three-times world touring car champion Andy Priaulx has been honoured on a set of postage stamps issued by the Channel Island of Guernsey where he was born.
REUTERS
January 18, 2008
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Australia: Love Blooms
The rose has a rich symbolic life and in recent centuries has become closely associated with love, beauty and passion. This rose design is influenced by the artistic tradition of botanical illustration. It shows a single bloom on a parchment-like background.
Simone Sakinofsky is responsible for designing the red rose stamp and related products.
AUSPOST.COM.AU
January 17, 2008
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Stamp honoring biochemist bears error
Use it as a postage stamp, not a chemistry text.
In spite of a small error in a chemical formula, the U.S. Postal Service is going ahead with a commemorative stamp honoring biochemist Gerty Cori. She discovered cori ester, a derivative of glucose.
The formula for the chemical is shown on the stamp. The error is in the placement of a line in the formula and does not create a new chemical, Postal Service spokesman Roy Betts said Tuesday.
AP
January 16, 2008
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Fireworks Light Up Canada Post's Celebration Stamp
On January 15, Canada Post will issue a third Celebration stamp, this one featuring fireworks. The domestic rate stamp is also a Permanent stamp, meaning it will always be worth the going rate.
CANADAPOST.CA
January 15, 2008
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Australian Open 2008 Personalised Stamp Sheet
The 2008 Australian Open personalised stamp sheet features four well of today's best known players on the selvedge of the stamp sheet. (Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, Lleyton Hewitt and Serena Williams)
The sheet of 10 x 50c stamps features the Globe stamp (from 2003) with a generic image in the personalised stamp tab.
AUSPOST.COM.AU
January 14, 2008
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Mixed Booklet: definitives and greetings
Following the reported success of the Love booklet issued in January 2007, and promoting the Smilers stamps service Royal Mail will issue another booklet aimed at senders of cards for St Valentine's Day (14 February).
NORVIC-PHILATELICS.CO.UK
January 14, 2008
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New Zealand: 2008 Year of the Rat - Pocket Pets
The 2008 Year of the Rat stamp issue is the 12th in New Zealand Post's Chinese Lunar series. Its theme is 'pocket pets' – a term originally given to small rodents kept as pets and since expanded to include rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, ferrets and more. Eminently portable, these tiny animals make popular companions for small children everywhere.
STAMPS.NZPOST.CO.NZ
January 13, 2008
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Aland: Fine Fishes Swim on Stamps
In 2008, the perch and the zander are in turn to be featured on two definitive stamps. The fish illustrations were taken from the illustrated work 'Finlands fiskar malade efter naturen af Gosta Sundman' issued in the late 1800s.
POSTEN.AX
January 12, 2008
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South Georgia stamp issue celebrates New International Polar Year
In commemoration of a new International Polar Year (March 2007- March 2009) South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands are issuing a series of stamps which will be available this month.
South Georgia has been closely linked to polar scientific research from the very first International Polar Commission back in 1879 in the city of Hamburg.
MERCOPRESS.COM
January 11, 2008
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Cultural life in Belgium: Promotion of Philately-2008
This stamp is dedicated to the foreign masterpieces in the Belgian collections of art. The stamp illustrates the picture of the internationally known contemporary Spanish painter Jose Maria Sicilia "La Luz que se apaga".
January 10, 2008
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The Mount Honored by the U.S. Postal Service
In late April, the 200th anniversary of the founding of Mount St. Mary's University will be celebrated with a stamped postal card issued on the Emmitsburg, MD, campus.
The stamp art features a watercolor painting of "the Terrace" created by award-winning architectural illustrator Frank Costantino of Winthrop, MA.
USPS
January 10, 2008
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Australia: Lunar New Year - Year of the Rat
The Rat is the first symbol of a new lunar cycle and conveys luck and wealth. It is celebrated by Chinese communities across the world in February.
Dani Poon has been commissioned for the complete cycle of twelve designs and has designed the stamps, mini-sheet and zodiac sheetlet stamps in this issue. Dani was born in China and grew up in Hong Kong. She has seven years design and illustration experience in the graphics industry internationally. After graduating from Swinburne University School of Design in 1998, Dani has worked in Melbourne, Italy and Hong Kong.
AUSPOST.COM.AU
January 09, 2008
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Austria Post Celebrates the Classic Car
On January 2, 2008, Austria Post released it's first stamp issue for the 2008 year. Celebrating the sleek designs of Italian made sports cars, this booklet of eight personalized stamps is sure the delight both the stamp collector and the car enthusiast.
STAMPS.ABOUT.COM
January 08, 2008
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Everyday life : 'Heart by Franck Sorbier'
After Givenchy the stamps 'Heart 2008' are created this year by Frank Sorbier.
The stamp represents in the same time a simple and a romantic design for loving hearts.
LAPOSTE.COM
January 07, 2008
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Operation Ruthless
This first day cover for the James Bond stamp issue is based on Ian Fleming's links with Bletchley Park. A source of inspiration for his James Bond stories.
BLETCHLEYCOVERS.COM
January 07, 2008
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China offering 'Year of the Rat' stamps
China has released a new postage stamp commemorating the Chinese lunar calendar's "Year of the Rat."
China's official Xinhua news agency said Sunday the stamps were unveiled recently in Guizhou Province, the region with the only county in which the rat stamps can be officially postmarked.
UPI
January 07, 2008
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British Cathedrals
On occasion of the 300th anniversary of completion of St Paul's Cathedral Royal Mail is issuing a set of 6 stamps and a miniature sheet.
The set of 6 show the interior of six of the UK's most beautiful cathedrals using specially commissioned new photography.
NORVIC-PHILATELICS.CO.UK
January 06, 2008
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The Rat Wraps up Canada Post's Lunar Stamp Series
The wealth of legends that account for the naming of the years in the Chinese Lunar Calendar's 12-year cycle lend an imaginative quality to what has been deemed the oldest surviving calendar system in the world. And on January 8, Canada Post will issue a stamp and souvenir sheet celebrating The Year of the Rat, the final year of a 12-year series.
CANADAPOST.CA
January 05, 2008
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Living images on Alpine Skiing stamps
The new stamp year in Finland begins on 24 January. On that date a miniature sheet will be issued bearing a total of 11 different 1st class non-value indicator stamps. Also issued on the same day will be two sets of stamps, one with 3 stamps denominated 5 cents and another with three 10 cent stamps. All these issues will have something new, never before seen on Finnish stamps.
The miniature sheet dedicated to Alpine skiing has an illusion of movement thanks to the imaging and printing technology used. When you turn the sheet in your hands, the picture comes to life.
POSTI.FI
January 04, 2008
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Upcoming Monaco issue: Andre Massena
Andre Massena (born in Nice on May 6, 1758), enlisted in the Royal Italian regiment, had been appointed as warrant officer, top rank for a non-nobleman, before joining the National Guard where he became officer.
OETP-MONACO.COM
January 03, 2008
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Old toys stamps
Old toys are nowadays real museum pieces and once more feature in a stamp issue made up of eight self adhesive rate A stamps depicting emblematic toys chosen amongst the most representative and valuable pieces from the batches of eight of the most important toy museums in Spain.
CORREOS.ES
January 02, 2008
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King Juan Carlos I stamps
Eight new stamps with the portrait of H.M. King Juan Carlos I are issued within the definitive series. The Definitive Series consists of "stamps with a range of denominations sufficient to cover all posted rates and printed in a number large enough to meet postal demands." The stamps that make up this series always depicts the portrait of the Spanish monarch and since 1975 when Juan Carlos I was proclaimed King, five different definitive series have been issued.
CORREOS.ES
January 01, 2008
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