Category: Stamp of the Month

In the city of Thionville in the French département of Moselle, a large painting by the street artist MANTRA, born in 1987 with civil name Youri Cansell, has been emblazoned since 2017. On the house wall is an image of a collector’s showcase of exotic South American butterflies, including Morpho rhetenor (large blue butterfly), Catagramma Read More …

This month’s stamp is one of three issued by Italy to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death. After other countries have already done so (e.g. Liechtenstein), now also the home country of the great Italian poet. What fascinated me about this and the other two stamps is that this time the Italian Post Read More …

After launching a stamp on toilet paper as a symbol of the Covid-19 pandemic last year, Austrian Post is again issuing a special feature on this topic today: an embroidered stamp in the shape of an FFP2 mask. The stamp on this souvenir sheet has the value of 2,75€ and appears in an edition of Read More …

This beautiful souvenir sheet designed by Juha Pykäläinen appeared on the occasion of the national maritime folk festival Sail Åland on July 22-25, 2021, showing the Western Harbour with sailing ships visiting Mariehamn (the capital of the Åland Islands). The sailing ship Pomerania recalls Åland’s own shipping traditions. This souvenir sheet is accompanied by a Read More …

Why this time such a simple stamp on a joint issue of Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands (designer M. Mörck). Simply because I am – after some research – impressed by the engraver Czeslaw Slania. Slania is known around the world for his artistic achievements and craftsmanship. He has engraved more than 1,000 (!) Read More …

Today I present again a EUROPA stamp (C.E.P.T.). EUROPA stamps are special stamps issued by European postal administrations/companies and bear the official EUROPA logo. They are intended to emphasize postal cooperation in Europe and to promote philately. By now, I also know why these stamps are among the most collected and popular stamps in the Read More …

This time I present a stamp (souvenir sheet) of the Portuguese Post, which in my eyes combines three novelties with something old. and is already listed on the “shortlist” for the World Post & Parcel Awards in 2021. Novelty 1: It is a stamp (souvenir sheet) that can be seen in connection with the Covid-19 Read More …

How do I get on the topic of gratitude this month? Actually, via the stork from the science section. To the Egyptians, it was clear that young storks cared for their aging parents, bringing them food and even carrying them through the air. The Greeks took up this story and formed from it the “stork Read More …

And again it is a C.E.P.T. stamp that I have chosen as stamp of the month. Probably because the topic “Endangered Species” concerns me so much and I am enthusiastic about stamps taking up current social issues and communicating the topics artistically. In this case, it’s the deforestation of large forests in the Carpathian Mountains, Read More …

Surfing is the theme of a set of six stamps from Jersey. I chose the accompanying miniature sheet as the stamp of the month for May because I liked this black and white photograph of the late John Houiellebecq so much. In fact, I didn’t know that St. Ouen’s Bay in Jersey counted as a Read More …