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This joint French-Czech stamp is devoted to the 200th anniversary of one the most important battles of Napoleon Wars, to the great Napoleon's victory at Slavkov-Austerlitz…

The special postmark on this FDC commemorates The International Geneva Motor Show is an annual auto show held in March in the Swiss city of Geneva. The show is hosted at the Geneva…

The stamp depicting the barque Mariehamn is part of the sailing ship series that includes the stamps featuring the schooner Leo, the barquentine Lemland, the…

Daily life - A Century in Stamps - "At School" (Paris, 1965) One of a set of five stamps. Thank you Merja.

Devotion to the fourteen "Auxiliary Saints" began in Rhineland, now part of Germany, at the time of the Black Death. The Fourteen Holy Helpers are a group…

(10c) 50th Anniversary Cogwheel & Swiss Week badge. (20c) Hour glass under a stylised sun. 50th anniv. of the Foundation for the Aged.

Monaco 2004 Cathedral Choir 100th Anniversary 1 value depicting Cathedral Building, Choirboy and Emblem -  Founded in 1974 as a part of Monaco Cathedral Choir,…

The three commemorative Swiss stamps, shown in the upper part of the image above, were issued on February 21, 1966.The 10 C. denomination stamp was issued to publicize the International Congress for Conservation,…

The embossed stamp on this FDC was issued in 2004 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Order of Grimaldi.

The souvenir sheet on the first day cover was issued for the National Philatelic Exhibition (NABRA), held in Bern from August 27 to September 5, 1965.  This is the…

€0,25 : European Green Woodpecker (綠啄木鳥) ; €0,30 : European Honey Buzzard (鵰頭鷹) €0,50 ; Hazel Grouse (花尾榛雞), €0,75 : Firecrest (火冠戴菊) €1,00 : European…

Beautiful of Malaysia Kemasek, Terengganu Type of Errors and Valued Stamps Indeed, an error stamp neither limited edition nor special edition but predominantly due to…

New Entries Today I will focus in the last years of XIX Century, with some Portuguese stamps from the 3 D. Carlos I series and…

Burrowing Owl (穴鴞) Aruba (2016) 25th July, 2016. Oranjestad Burrowing Owl is a small, long-legged owl found throughout open landscapes of North and South America.…

1,0L : Little Bustard (小鴇) ; 0,6L : Caucasian Black Grouse (高加索黑琴雞) 0,4L : Grey Partridge (灰山鶉) Gambia (2011) 29th July, 2016. Akhaltsikhe Georgia is…

New Entries I have stored some British Queen Victoria stamps in the last few years ,but I only have classified those of the Jubilee issue…

Common Shelduck (翹鼻麻鴨) ; Common Tern (普通燕鷗) ; Barn Swallow (家燕) Pied Avocet (反嘴鷸) ; Eurasian Spoonbill (白琵鷺) Belgium (2016) 16th June, 2016. Roesela The…

Travel & Philately Two great passions, which make our life more interesting, better, and in the end, live some "traces" to future generation. Even that…

New Entries If you ever have opened a catalog of India stamps , You will find that the number of single stamp series is enormous…

Top : Mount Kupe Bushshrike (庫山叢伯勞) ; Martial Eagle (猛雕) ; Purple Heron (紫鷺) Bottom : European Robin (知更鳥) ; Black-casqued Hornbill (黑盔犀鳥) Cameroun (1983,…

New Entries Today I will show some of my new entries (some of them replacing others or just spare stamps...) from the Columbus series from Chile...…

Great Frigatebird (小軍艦鳥) Nauru (2008) 21st April, 2016. Nauru Great Frigatebird is a large seabird in the frigatebird family. Major nesting populations are found in…

150f : Marabou Stork (禿鸛) ; 70f : Saddle-billed Stork (鞍嘴鸛) 200f : Secretarybird (蛇鷲) ; 110f : Common Ostrich (鴕鳥) Chad (1985) 15th July,…