The Philatelic Database – Archive of Stamp Collecting Articles

In 2009, the Finnish postal service depicted the traditional sauna in a five-stamp self-adhesive booklet.

The National Museum of Reykjavik was 100 years old on February 24, 1963 and on the occasion of this anniversary the Icelandic postal authorities placed on sale two commemorative stamps.

This very attractive issue was designed by Pierrette Lambert and engraved by Eugene Lacaque. It was released November 7, 1991. 127, 000 blocks were sold.

This little hunt for butterflies in West Africa requires neither net nor mosquito repellent, so forget your pith helmet and take a relaxing look at the beautiful and exotic stamp issues of Gabon.

This issue designed by V. Pimenov consisted of two values: 40k. blue and 60k. purple. It features a carrier pigeon and celebrated the International Correspondence Week

This handsome 1d. red-brown and yellow green stamp was recess printed by Bradbury Wilkinson and depicted the Symbol of the Protectorate.

Two stamps were issued October 1, 1965 to celebrate the opening of the Post Office Tower, London. Both stamps were designed by C. Abbott.

This attractive airmail issue of Peru was recess printed by Waterlow and Sons. Perf. 12 1/2. There were two stamps in the set. 2s. blue and 5s. brown. They featured a Fairley fighter and were issued February 1, 1934.

This attractive set of Laotian Butterflies was designed by by M. Leguay.

This imperf sheet issued for the NABA Stamp Exhibition measured 61 x 75 mm. 4 x 50c. red, black and blue. It sold for 3f and released March 11, 1971. It was designed by E. Schnell. (With a name like that he probably worked fast!). Printed typo PTT, Berne. A must for the stamp on [...]

This attractive issue was designed by E.Pizzi and consisted of three stamps 10l. yellow, lake and seoia, 25l. yellow lake and dull violet and 35l. yellow, lake and grey-black (pictured). It was released May 29, 1954.For information on Piux X, see the Catholic Encyclopaedia entry: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12137a.htm

The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in April 1896, and Greece issued a series of twelve stamps to mark the occasion.

Here are some fine engraved stamps issued on Jan 2, 1931. They were recess printed by the American Bank Note Company.

With the Wedding of Prince Albert this year, many of us are reminded of the last royal wedding in Monaco of his parents wedding and coronation in 1956. These stamps were very popular and the lower denominations can often be found in children’s albums of the period.

This 40 kopeks orange-red and violet-blue stamp issued on June 17, 1960 commemorated the launching of Cosmic Rocket Spacecraft 1 “Vostok”.

This attractive set of eight stamps featuring game bird was designed by J. Desselburger and lithographed.

These three blocks show the three issues commemorating Hitler’s 55th birthday.

The design of the 1973 Christmas stamps by Dolli Tingle, which features a whimsical old-fashioned Christmas tree, was the first U.S. stamp ever designed in needlepoint.

Each year since 1957 Australia has issued Christmas stamps to facilitate the mailing of greeting cards to inland addresses, sometimes at a reduced postage rate. In later years there have been higher values in the series to cover postage rates to other destinations.

The subject of the 1989 Christmas stamps of Norway was Christmas tree decorations.

The Duchy of Modena introduced adhesive stamps in June 1852 (pictured above).

Highly-informative article by W. L. Russell on the popular “Chainbreaker” issues of Czechoslovakia. It gives detailed lists of the amounts printed and finally issued. There is even a useful list of the plate flaws.

This 20 lire dull purple, greenish grey and black stamp celebrated the centenary of the birth of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was issued Mar 14, 1979.

Being a maritime nation, St. Pierre and Miquelon naturally issue a number of stamps related to fishing. This is a fine example depicting the fish freezer “Le Galantry” and was designed and engraved by H. Cheffer and recess printed, it was issued for the Economic and Social Development Fund. Perf 13.

The original St. Helena sixpenny stamp, printed by Perkins, Bacon & Co. in 1856, bore a completely new and rather austere head of Queen Victoria, probably engraved by Humphrys.

The colourful illustrations of the flowers of Great Britain were the subjects of Michael Goman’s vivid designs for the stamps, which were put on sale on August 5th, 1964 to mark the 10th International Botanical Congress held in Edinburgh from August 3rd to 12th.