FDC`s and stamps

2012 Latvian Post plans

2011-12-30T08:53:00.003+01:00

2012 Latvian Post plans to spend at least 26 new stamps 17 million copy print run
2012 Latvian Post plans to issue at least 26 new stamps - the various Latvian state and people important topics and the different denominations. Postage stamps to be issued in the next few months may still be added, but this year's first postage stamps will be issued January 7, but the year has traditionally end with a new series of Christmas stamps in December 2012.

Total in 2012 Latvian post office stamps to be issued in circulation will reach at least 17 million copies, and taking into account the current significant demand for postage stamps, has about 10 million copies more than the average Latvian Post on an annual basis.

"Latvian Post, which issued postage stamps in the world recognizes it as a tasteful and artistically high-quality, and this year will delight both the stamp collector, and all of our customers with such a diverse and interesting stamps, so that everyone can choose their own taste and value of the items most relevant," said the Latvian Post postal and philatelic vērtszīmju Department Director Edmund Bebrišs.

Latvian Post 2012 of the first postage stamps will be issued in series Latvian county and city coat of arms, and will include three different stamps - Riga with the small coat of arms, coat of arms and Piltene Lielvardes county coat of arms.

Already in January at the end of daylight will see a unique stamp with the success of the Latvian people found themselves, first of all participating for the first time in Latvian history, organized by stamp design contest and sending it their stamp designs, but then the social networks to actively vote for the most interesting postage stamps. Place winner of a postage stamp, where it is stories, which depicted lions Vērmanes and nearby restaurant Library No.1 building surrounded by trees, will be issued and presented Jan. 27.

Popular flower series in February 2012 will be issued in the third stamp - Lily. Two new postage stamp in March will be the European single series of postage Europe, initiated by the European Union and the Postal stamps, unified the whole of Europe, with the same logo, is published since 1994.

In April, the stamp will be dedicated to the great Latvian bibliographer John Brass 150-year anniversary commemoration, but the three stamp series - Riga Zoo centenary. In May, the stamp will be issued a second series of the Latvian port, this time - the Free Port of Ventspils topic. But in June two new stamps will be included in the series of Latvian birds that are updated for the third consecutive year.

In July, a special postage stamp will be issued on the occasion of the 30th Summer Olympic Games in 2012 from 27 July to 12 August will take the UK capital of London. While the August issue will stamp block, consisting of two postage stamps - Kurland and Semigallia - 450. Also in Riga-born rocket scientist and Astronautics constructor Friedrich Zander 125-year anniversary commemorative postage stamp will be issued in August.

Third series of postage stamps Latvian contemporary architecture to be issued in September, but the Baltic States kopizdevumu - stamp block railroad bridges - in October. Of Riga Technical University, 150 years of existence will be celebrated with the issue of postage stamps in October.

In preparation for the centenary of the Latvian state in 2018, Latvian Post and in 2012, for the fourth consecutive year, will issue three new series of postage stamps Latvian Republic - 100. But in the end - December - Latvian Post, traditionally will issue two new series of Christmas stamps.

LatvijasPasts annually issued an average of 12-16 new postage costs, with a total print run is usually achieved up to 7 million copies of letters and other items of correspondence on traveling around the world. Stamp subjects each year, the dedicated Stamp issue commission.

On the VAS Latvian Post

Latvian Post provides the broadest access to postal services throughout Latvian territory, maintaining more than 600 postal service site. Company's main function is the universal postal service, the company also provides philatelic services, transportation and express delivery, financial intermediation, payment, press and retail services. Latvian Post is a state wholly-owned company, which employs around 4600 staff.

To learn more about the Latvian Post, visit the website www.pasts.lv.

Postcard from Germany

2010-03-24T13:26:00.002+01:00

Postcard from Finland

2010-03-24T13:25:00.002+01:00

Cover from Canada

2010-03-19T11:37:00.002+01:00

Cover from China

2010-03-19T11:31:00.003+01:00

Thank you Zhou Fan for this interesting cover.

FDC from China

2010-03-19T11:00:00.003+01:00

Thanks Fan Ming for this nice FDC.

Cover from Croatia

2010-03-18T17:27:00.003+01:00

Graceful surprise from Canada

2010-03-16T11:07:00.006+01:00

Thank you very much Rod for nice Olympic FDC`s.Very nice surprise:)

FDC from Ukraine

2010-03-16T10:48:00.003+01:00

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Тарас Григорович Шевченко) (March 9 [ February 25] 1814 – March 10 [February 26] 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, artist and humanist. His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and, to a large extent, the modern Ukrainian language. Shevchenko also wrote in Russian and left many masterpieces as a painter and an illustrator.

Thank you Igor for this First Day Cover.

FDC from India

2010-03-16T10:45:00.004+01:00

Thanks Swarup Rath for nice first day cover.

Postcard from France

2010-03-08T16:43:00.002+01:00

Postcard from Moscow,Russia

2010-03-08T16:40:00.002+01:00

Cover from Portugal

2010-03-08T13:54:00.003+01:00

Thank you,Edna Chin.

Postcard from New Zealand

2010-03-08T11:40:00.002+01:00

Postcard from USA

2010-03-05T13:52:00.002+01:00

Glacier National Park (U.S.)

Glacier National Park is located in the U.S. state of Montana, bordering the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. The park encompasses over 1,000,000 acres (4,047 km2) and encompasses parts of two mountain ranges (sub-ranges of the Rocky Mountains), over 130 named lakes, more than 1,000 different species of plants and hundreds of species of animals. This vast pristine ecosystem is the centerpiece of what has been referred to as the "Crown of the Continent Ecosystem", a region of protected land encompassing 16,000 square miles (41,440 km2). More info - wikipedia.org

Sell or swap

2010-03-04T17:41:00.004+01:00

Football
Date of issue: 8th September 2007.
Designer: Yu. Utans
Paper: chalky
Printing process: offset
Perforation: comb 13 3/4
Size of a stamp: 44 x 44 mm.
Size of the Miniature sheet: 162 x 118 mm.
Printing run: 50.000
Michel catalogue number: Klb.709.
Michel cat. value - 8.50 Euro

Sales price - 7,00USD
Shipping cost- 3.50USD world wide registered mail!
Payment -Paypal

Cover from France

2010-03-04T16:50:00.002+01:00

Thanks Eric for nice cover and added Olympic postcard.

Postcard from Finland

2010-03-03T16:54:00.002+01:00

Cover from Croatia

2010-03-01T14:36:00.002+01:00

Another excellent cover, only this time from Croatia.
Thank You Dragan.

Cover from Lithuania

2010-03-01T13:07:00.006+01:00

The week began with a wonderful surprise from Lithuania.I received an envelope with two excellent FDC and two maximum cards.
Thank you very much,Rar.

Postcard from Netherlands

2010-03-01T11:07:00.003+01:00

Cover from Singapore

2010-02-26T16:46:00.004+01:00

Zodiac Series - Tiger Stamp Issue
Date Of Issue : 08 Jan, 2010

Thanks Edmund for this nice cover:)

Postcard from Russia

2010-02-25T15:58:00.001+01:00

Thank you Lavr+ for this nice postcard.

Cover from Austria

2010-02-25T15:44:00.003+01:00

The term Kleinbahn (literally 'small railway') was a concept used especially in Prussia for a railway line that "on account of its low importance for general railway transport" had less strict requirements placed on its construction and operation that main lines (Hauptbahnen) or secondary lines (Nebenbahnen i.e. normal branch lines). Even public railway lines built for constructional or industrial purposes were counted as Kleinbahnen.

Thanks Edna for nice cover.

Cover from Island

2010-02-25T15:42:00.002+01:00

Cover from France

2010-02-22T17:25:00.003+01:00

Many thanks to my friend Eric from France.I recommend visit his wonderful blog http://timbredujura.blogspot.com/

Cover from Canada :)

2010-02-22T16:22:00.003+01:00

FDC from Poland

2010-02-22T16:03:00.003+01:00

Poland has already won three silver and one bronze medal.They won Adam Malysz, Ski Jumping and Justyna Kowalczyk, Cross-Country Skiing.Keep up!

Thank you Andrzej for this nice FDC.

Postcard from Turkey

2010-02-22T15:42:00.003+01:00

Hydra (Greek: Ύδρα, pronounced [ˈiðra], sometimes in English spelled Idhra to reflect the Greek pronunciation) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece, located in the Aegean Sea between the Saronic Gulf and the Argolic Gulf. It is separated from the Peloponnese by narrow strip of water. In ancient times, the island was known as Hydrea (Υδρέα, derived from the Greek word for "water"), which was a reference to the springs on the island.
Hydra is also a municipality and one of the few provinces in Greece to have two municipalities — which includes the island of Dokos (pop. 13) — yet fewer than five communes. However, there are no municipal boundaries on the island and its smaller islands.
There is one main town, known simply as "Hydra port" (pop. 2,526 in 2001). It consists of a crescent-shaped harbor, around which is centered a strand of restaurants, shops, markets, and galleries that cater to tourists and locals (Hydriots). Steep stone streets lead up and outwards from the harbor area. Most of the local residences, as well as the hostelries on the island are located on these streets. Other small villages or hamlets on the island include Mandraki (pop. 33), Kamini, Vlychos (28), Palamidas (18), Episkopi, and Molos (2).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra,_Saronic_Islands

Thank Alex for this nice postcard!

New definitive stamp issue.

2010-02-19T21:57:00.005+01:00

Latvian Post issued reprint of definitive stamps.The Coats of Arms of Latvia`s Towns and Regions.

Coats of Arms -PREIĻI(reprint)

Issued date: 15.02.10

Edition :2000000

More info about Preiļi

FDC from Portugal

2010-02-19T15:52:00.002+01:00

FDC from Portugal

2010-02-19T15:51:00.002+01:00

FDC from France

2010-02-19T15:35:00.001+01:00

Postcard from St.Petersburg,Russia

2010-02-19T15:26:00.003+01:00

What do you know about this art style - Art Nouveau?

2010-02-16T16:08:00.004+01:00

Art Nouveau District.

The architectural and artistic answer to the literary Modernist movement that began in the late 19th century was the Art Nouveau movement in Europe. The Art Nouveau movement reached its peak in the early 20th century, which is when the majority of Riga’s Art Nouveau houses were built, beginning in 1899. Riga’s term for the movement, Jugendstil, comes from the German and Scandinavian movement named after the avant-garde periodical Jugend (“Youth”). Unlike the stiffer sensibilities of Victorian style, Art Nouveau stressed a complete creative freedom, mixing fantastic elements with a tendency to show all utilitarian construction elements as artistic value, with very characteristic elements such as dynamic, undulating, and flowing lines and geometrical ornaments. In Riga, Art Nouveau could be split into two main directions, decorative and romantic-nationalistic Art Nouveau.

Riga is one of the largest centres of Art Nouveau, with more than a third of the buildings of its Central district built in the style; other significant centres include Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Vienna,Krakow, and Moscow and St.Petersburg, among others. The main street for Riga’s Art Nouveau district is Elizabetes, which intersects Brivibas Boulevard. In addition to Elizabetes Street, Alberta and Strelnieku Streets also feature impressive examples of the style. In total, there are over 800 Art Nouveau buildings in Riga, but finding them all would be quite an ambitious undertaking, so we’ll try to guide you to the most noteworthy ones.

Significantly, most of the Art Nouveau buildings were designed and built by Latvian architects. Buildings in the decorative Art Nouveau style by one of the most famous architects, Mikhail Eisenstein (father of director Sergei Eisenstein), can be found at Elizabetes 10a and 10b, as well as at Alberta 2, 2a, 4, 8 and 13. On Alberta 13 stands a building from 1904 which now houses the Riga Graduate School of Law, which is fully restored and publicly accessible. Right around the corner, Strelnieku Street also features eccentric examples of the style. Romantic-nationalist Art Nouveau can be seen in the buildings by Latvian architects E. Laube, K. Peksens, and A. Vanags, such as those on Terbatas Street 15/17 and Brivibas Street 47, 58, and 62.

www.riga-life.com

If you have the opportunity to send a postcard with this art style, I would be very grateful.

Cover from Lithuania with two beautifull postcards

2010-02-16T15:21:00.007+01:00

XXI OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES. VANCOUVER
Issue date: 2010 01 30

The XXI Olympic Winter Games shall take place in Vancouver, city of Canada, on 12-28 of February 2010.The Games expect to have participants from almost 100 countries. That will be a new record of the number of participating countries in the history of Winter Olympics. The authors of this record will be also sportsmen from Lithuania. Four skiers, one biathlete and one alpine skier will represent our country. For the biathlon contestant Diana Rasimovičiūtė and skier Irina Terentjeva it will be the third Winter Olympics.The debut of Lithuania in the Olympic Winter Games was in 1928, when the skater Kęstutis Bulota performed in St. Moritz. Lithuania has two champions of Winter Olympics: biathlete Algimantas Šalna and his team won gold in the relay in 1984 Sarajevo Games, and the skier Vida Vencienė became Olympic champion in 1988 in Calgary. She also became a bronze medallist there.The sportsmen will be given 1 014 medals in Vancouver.

THE MOUNTAIN SKIER.

Face value – 2,45 Lt.Edition: 0,15 m.

Artist H. Ratkevičius.Offset. Art paper. Stamp – 34,5x30 mm. Perf.14. Sheet of 10 (5x2) stamps. The margins of a sheet are with pictures.

Printed in Osterreichishe Staatsdrukerei GmbH printing-house in Vienna (Austria).

http://www.post.lt/

The Castle of Kaunas.

The Island castle of Trakai (14th-15th c.)

Thank you Ida for the wonderful cards and especially the Olympic stamp.

Postcard from Brussels,Belgium

2010-02-15T17:49:00.004+01:00

Wonderful postcard from Finland

2010-02-15T16:59:00.004+01:00

Especially a great pleasure for the postcard was for my daughter.We say thanks to my friend Andrey from Finland.

Latvia has also issued postage stamps in honor of the Olympic Games in Vancouver!

2010-02-08T17:03:00.015+01:00

The long awaited is here ..:)

And what do you think of this issue?

Mhhh.....I like to, but not so much to say that this would be my favorite Olympic issue.

On postage stamps featuring ice hockey.Thats right,because Ice hockey in Latvia is the No. 1 sport!

Great achievement for our team no yet been, but we love them and faning for them.Our fans are the best in the world.

Issues plan in Latvian post

2010-02-03T21:19:00.005+01:00

Hello friends and my blog visitors
If you wish to receive any of these issues, please write to me .
I'd love to try to help you!

''Helps the other and someone will help you''

Attention!

2010-02-01T17:05:00.002+01:00

I have a new e-mail address -

cibiss@inbox.lv

Latvian Post added a series of postage stamps Latvian cities and county coat of arms

2010-01-31T12:10:00.011+01:00

Series of the Latvian city and county coat of arms issued three new stamps - Iecava, Līgatne and Viesīte.

The new postage stamps featuring a Iecavas, Līgatnes and Viesītes coats of arms.

Designer: Girts Griva

Paper: chalky

Printing process: offset

Perforation:Size: 21 x 25 mm.

Sheet composition:

Printing run: 778 - 1.000.000; 779-780 - 300.000.

Michel catalogue numbers: 778-78035 (S). multicoloured.

35 (S). multicoloured. Coats of Arms of Vieshite.

40 (S). multicoloured. Coats of Arms of Ligatne.

55 (S). multicoloured. Coats of Arms of Iecava.

Together with the new postage stamps issued in the first-day covers and three different special stamps. Latvian map depicts an envelope, as well as Iecavas, Līgatnes Viesītes and coats of arms. Special stamps depict Latvian circuit, as well Iecavas, Līgatnes and Viesītes location map.

Stamp series Latvian city and county coat of arms is regularly updated with new postage stamps since 1994

I`m back!

2010-01-29T16:25:00.005+01:00

Hello my friends!

Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus un laimīgu Jauno gadu!Johohoo
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I'm back!
And looking for partners to exchange FDC.

Who wants to get the latest Olympic theme of Latvian stamp? It will be issued on 05.02.2010.
The time is coming soon.Write to me and get it!

Please help me with the Vancouver Olympic FDC.'ll be very grateful:)

Postcard from Israel

2008-05-30T15:36:00.002+02:00

Cover from Belgium

2008-05-27T17:39:00.002+02:00

FDC from Portugal

2008-05-27T17:38:00.002+02:00

FDC from China

2008-05-27T17:32:00.003+02:00

New stamp and FDC from Latvia

2008-05-23T17:27:00.004+02:00

In the new postage stamp with value Ls 0.45 is represented Latvia orienteer and in the European championship orienteering sport logo. The postage stamp artistic author is Girts Griva.

Postage stamp 200 000 copies made in the France enterprise Cartor Security Printing.

Together with a postage stamp an envelope and special seal of the first day is given out also. In locality cards are the envelope of the first day evident, an orienteers substantial instrument – compass and championship logo;also in a compass is the special seal represented.

Latvia hosts European Championships and first World Cup round
The early season events are past and the big Tvåmila and Tiomila relays have also taken place; many top competitors have also been training for this year’s World Championships in the Czech Republic and competing in the Moravian Open Championships. Now the world’s elite are looking forward to the first international championship event of 2008, the European Championships, in which the three individual finals also form the first round of the 2008 World Cup.
Ventspils, a harbour town in Latvia beside the Baltic Sea, is the event centre for the championships and the venue for the sprint races and the relay. In the middle and long distance races, high technical skills will be needed to cope with the very detailed sand dune terrain in the area, whilst one of the main physical challenges will be the marshes, which amount to 20% of the area in the long distance final and a significant part of the middle distance areas. The sprint races will be held in the town, with a good mix of urban area, parkland, dunes and beach, whilst the relay terrain is based around an old army base on the edge of the town, using coniferous forest along with complex duneland.
110 women and 137 men representing 29 countries will be taking part. Each nation can enter 6 runners per class and 2 relay teams of 3 per class, and the current European Champions have a ‘wild card’ entry in addition. There are qualification races for each of the 3 individual race formats with the top 17 from each of 3 heats in each class going through to the finals.

Cover from Czeck rep.

2008-05-23T17:19:00.005+02:00

Date of publication: 05.03.2008
Face-value: 10.0 Kč
Print sheets: 30 stamps
Imprint dimension: 40 x 23 mm

Art design: Otakar Karlas
Engraving: Bohumil Šneider

This issue is designed to promote the World Stamp Exhibition PRAGA 2008 which is to be held on September 12-14, 2008 at the Prague-Holešovice Exhibition Grounds. The Navrátil's mural used on the stamp is also to commemorate the 90th anniversary of foundation of the Postal Museum in Prague (18.12.1918). J. Navrátil (1798-1865) was the most famous Prague decorative painter dominating in murals for town-houses and houses for aristocrats and the emperor. The nice two-floor house at Prague 1, Nové mlýny 2, the seat of the Postal Museum, is the original residential part of the former mill located at this site. In the 19th century it was the property of a rich miller and art benefactor Michalovic who asked his friend Navrátil for its decoration. The so-called Theatre Saloon displays 16 scenes from historical legends and theatre plays, e.g. Oldřich and Božena, Libuše's Judgement, Vilém Tell or Bath Servant Zuzana Carrying the King Wenceslas IV Over the Vltava River. We can admire the last one on the postage stamp. Located in the same room is also Navrátil's self-portrait used on the first day cover. The third saloon, the former dining room, displays paintings of romantic landscapes including Alpine scenes as remembered by the author from his travelling in Austria, Italy and Switzerland. These murals belong to the last murals painted by Navrátil in Prague. The postage stamp will be issued in the form of printed sheets and booklets of 8 stamps and 4 coupons.

Date of publication: 05.03.2008
Face-value: 10.0 Kč
Print sheets: 50 stamps
Imprint dimension: 30 x 23 mm
Art design: Otakar Karlas
Engraving: Bohumil Šneider

The postage stamp designed for Easter correspondence features the "Mourning over the Dead Christ", a detail from the panel altar painting created by the Master of the Vyšebrodský Cycle before 1350. This anonymous artist who belongs to the founders of the Czech Gothic panel painting is named after the alter in the South Bohemian Cistercian monastery at Vyšší Brod. The Cistercian order was famous for the cult of Mary. The completely preserved cycle of feasts, probably in the original form of a square retable, displays nine scenes of the Christ's life, from the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary up to the Descent of the Holy Spirit. The form of the painting combines the western linear concept with Italianising softening shapes. The work on canvas mounted on lime wood panel is the property of the National Gallery in Prague. The Vyšebrodský Master's cycle includes paintings such as, e.g. Madonna of Veveří, Strahov, Kladsko as well as murals in the vestry of St. Thomas Church at the Lesser Town in Prague.

FDC from Portugal

2008-05-23T17:18:00.002+02:00

FDC from S.Korea

2008-05-23T17:16:00.001+02:00

FDC from Malaysia

2008-05-21T11:01:00.002+02:00

Cover from Switzerland

2008-05-21T09:38:00.002+02:00

Cover from Croatia

2008-05-20T10:14:00.002+02:00

FDC from India

2008-05-20T10:13:00.002+02:00

Postcard from Australia

2008-05-20T10:12:00.002+02:00

FDC`s from China

2008-05-19T17:27:00.003+02:00

FDC from Russia

2008-05-19T17:26:00.002+02:00

Cover from Taiwan

2008-05-19T17:21:00.002+02:00

FDC from France

2008-05-19T17:19:00.001+02:00

Postcard from Malaysia

2008-05-19T17:18:00.003+02:00

Cover from Ukraine

2008-05-19T17:17:00.002+02:00

Cover from Finland

2008-05-19T15:57:00.002+02:00

Cover from Spain

2008-05-19T15:52:00.002+02:00

Covers from Canada

2008-05-12T17:44:00.005+02:00

FDC from Russia

2008-05-12T17:42:00.002+02:00

FDC from Sweden

2008-05-12T17:40:00.001+02:00

FDC from S.Korea

2008-05-10T11:40:00.003+02:00

Date of Issue: April 22, 2008
Quantity: 1.6 million stamps each
Denomination: 250 won
Design: Spacecraft collecting and delivering letters,The world in the post box
Printing Processand Colors: Photogravure, six colors, Offset, five colors
Size of Stamp: 36mm x 26mm, 26mm x 36mm
Image Area: 36mm x 23mm, 26mm x 36mm
Perforation: 13
Sheet Composition: 5 x 4, 4 x 5(216mm x 140mm, 140mm x 216mm)
Paper: White Unwatermarked
Original Painter: Lau Tsun Yin (Hong Kong, China), Hamzah D. Marbella (Philippines)
Designer: MO, Jiwon
Printer: Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation

A red post box stands at the corner of an alley, a familiar sight. Now, new IT technologies are dominating the world to be applied to all aspects of our lives. Then, in the next 10 years, 20 years, or 50 years, how will the postbox evolve?
Korea Post held “The 2008 International Postage Stamp Design Contest” under the theme of “the mailbox of the future.” A total of 5,327 works were submitted and 15 award-winning works were selected for the Grand Prize, Award of Excellence, Honorable Mention, and Special Prize. The “Special Stamp for the Mailbox of the Future” features pictures selected as Grand Prize and Award of Excellence, both of which give a glimpse of the abundant imagination of the kids. Lau Tsun Yin (age 8) from Hong Kong, the winner of the Grand Prize, expressed the future mailbox as a spacecraft that has many protruding arms like a jellyfish. In his picture, the postman in the spacecraft collects and delivers the mail using these long arms. Hamzah D. Marbella (age 7) from Philippines, the winner of Award of Excellence, is conveying this message: despite the noteworthy advancement of computers and electronic telecommunications, the countless letters in the post box will make our future world beautiful and fill it with peace and love. It is hoped that the future post boxes imagined by our kids will be realized some day.

FDC from Czech rep.

2008-05-09T13:04:00.004+02:00

Date of publication: 07.05.2008
Face-value: 17.0 Kč
Print sheets: 8 stamps
Imprint dimension: 40 x 23 mm
Art design: Marina Richterová

The Association of European Public Postal Operators PostEurop declared "Writing Letters" as this year's common theme for the postage stamp issue EUROPA in order to promote written correspondence. In the past writing letters significantly cultivated the language and contributed to a better and more precise formulation of ideas. In today's world of mobile phones and e-mails hardly anyone will find the time for a handwritten letter. Despite the present massive spread of computers, a handwritten news still remains an expression of a special attention. Correspondence of leading authors is published as an organic part of their work, e.g. the correspondence of B. Němcová. These days waiting for a letter from a friend is rather a curiosity. We get an occasional card with Christmas or Easter greetings or from a holiday trip. The spoken word dies out, but a letter remains.

Cover from Korea

2008-05-08T12:45:00.003+02:00

FDC from Estonia

2008-05-06T16:55:00.007+02:00

Denomination: 9.00
Date: 30.04.2008
Print: ofset
Designer: Triin Heimann
Perforation: 14 : 14¼
Sheets: 2 x 5
Quantity issued: 220 000
Printing house:AS Vaba Maa

PostEurop has picked the letter as the theme of this yea’s Europa stamp. The letter is a missive from the sender to the receiver and for its delivery postal services have been set up in all world countries today. Regular postal carriage in Europe started on the initiative of Franz von Taxis in 1495 on the Vienna-Brussels route. Estonia received its first regular postal link with Sweden 1638. For the linguistic expression of the contents of letters men have devised sign systems that have developed from ancient pictograms and cuneiform signs into powerful and supple instruments of human communication. Whether alphabetic, syllabic or hieroglyphic, writing can express the whole range of human thought and can besides take highly artistic forms. Although e-mails are winning more and more popularity today, the traditional “hard copy” letter is still very much alive and kicking as the millions of letters postal systems daily deliver to addressees prove.

FDC from Russia

2008-05-06T16:33:00.005+02:00

Date of issue: 29th April 2008.

Designer: A. Drobyshev

Paper: chalky

Printing process: offset

Perforation: frame 12 : 12 1/2

Size of a stamp: 30 x 42 mm.

Size of the Souvenir Sheet: 70 x 90 mm.

Printing run: 100.000

Michel catalogue number: Block110 (1461)

15 (R). multicoloured. 225 anniversaries of the fleet to Russia on Black sea.

Latvia : Lighthouses

2008-05-03T21:02:00.005+02:00

Date of issue : 10th May 2008.

FDC from Ukraine

2008-04-29T12:41:00.005+02:00

Date of issue: 5th January 2006.

Designers: Sergej Kharuk, Aleksej Kharuk
Paper: chalky
Printing process: offset
Perforation: frame 11 1/2
Size of a stamp: 30 x 33 mm
Size of the Souvenir Sheet: 110 x 50 mm
Printing run: 570.000
Michel catalogue numbers: Block54 (766C-767C)
1,30 (G). multicoloured. Anniversary composition
2,50 (G). multicoloured. Anniversary composition.

FDC from Ukraine

2008-04-29T12:40:00.007+02:00

Date of publication:12.03.2008
Name:Se-tenant Europe 2008. The Letter
Author:Designer: V. Taran, S. Kharuk, O. Kharuk
Number of se-tenants per pane:5
Printing:150 000
Michel catalogue numbers: 945-946Zd.

Name: Europa 2008. The Letter
Size (mm): 33x30
Perforation: comb - 13 1/2
Face value: 2,47
Protection: microtext "В.Таран, С.Харук, О.Харук" (V. Taran, S. Kharuk, O. Kharuk). Feather and letter luminesce under UV light

Name: Europa 2008. The Letter
Size (mm): 30x33
Perforation: comb - 13 1/2
Face value: 3,33
Protection: microtext "В.Таран, С.Харук, О.Харук" (V. Taran, S. Kharuk, O. Kharuk). Letters luminesce under UV light

Designer: Alexander Kalmykov

Paper: chalky

Printing process: offset

Perforation: comb 13 3/4 : 14

Size: 22 x 26 mmSheet composition: 90 (9 x 10) stamps

Printing run: unlimited.

Michel catalogue number: 751II

P (10,10 G). multicoloured. Trident Symbol (2006)

Cover from USA

2008-04-29T12:38:00.003+02:00

Postcard from S.Korea

2008-04-25T13:40:00.007+02:00

2008 Hampyeong World Butterfly & Insect Expo, Korea
Date of issue:18.04.2008.

Expo Park

FDC from Korea

2008-04-23T14:32:00.005+02:00

Title: PHILAKOREA 2009 24th Asian International Stamp Exhibition
Types: 4
Date of Issue: April 10, 2008
Quantity: 560,000 stamps each (S/S 320,000 sheets)
Denomination: 250 won each (S/S 1,000 won)
Design: Buchaechum, Salpurichum, Seungmu, Taepyeongmu
Stamp No.:2608 ~ 2611
Printing Processand Colors: Photogravure, six colors
Size of Stamp: 30mm x 40mm
Image Area: 30mm x 40mm
Perforation; 13
Sheet Composition: 4 x 4(four stamps setenant, 145mm x 240mm)
Paper: White Unwatermarked
Designer: SHIN, Jaeyong
Printer: Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation

Postcard from Russia

2008-04-22T17:25:00.002+02:00

FDC from Russia 2

2008-04-22T17:23:00.003+02:00

FDC from Russia

2008-04-22T16:56:00.010+02:00

Designer: A. Moskovets

Paper: chalky

Printing process: offset

Perforation: comb 12

Size of a stamp: 26 x 58 mm.

Printing run: 98.000

Michel catalogue numbers: Block109 (1458-1460)

Designer: A. Moskovets

Paper: chalky

Printing process: offset

Perforation: comb 12

Size of a stamp: 26 x 58 mm.

Size of a se-tenant strip of 3 stamps: 78 x 58 mm.

Sheet composition: 8 (2 x 4) se-tenant strips.

Printing run: 220.000

Michel catalogue numbers: 1458-1460Zd

Latvia-Europa 2008-The Letter

2008-04-20T10:46:00.007+02:00

Date of issue: 26th April 2008.
45 (S). multicoloured. Europa 2008. The Letter.
85 (S). multicoloured. Europa 2008. The Letter.
Designer: Juris Utans
Paper: chalky
Printing process: offset
Miniature Sheet composition: 10 (2 x 5) stamps.

Michel catalogue numbers: 731-732

My first FDC from Czeck Republik

2008-04-18T15:33:00.007+02:00

Date of publication: 16.04.2008
Face-value: 17.0 Kč
Print sheets: 50 stamps
Imprint dimension: 23 x 40 mm
Art design: Zdeněk Netopil
Engraving: Václav Fajt
Method of printing: rotary recess print in black combined with photogravure in dark blue, red and brown

Ice hockey originated in the 60-70s of the 19th century in Canada. A game similar to bandy hockey, i.e. hockey with a ball, was played in Bohemia already in 1889-1891. The Canadian-style hockey appeared in the 1908 winter season. The Czech Hockey Association was established already on 8.11.1908. It was one of the founding members of the International Ice-Hockey League (LIHG). At that time hockey was played by twelve clubs. The division of hockey between ice and land hockey in 1921 was followed by the establishment of the Czechoslovak Ice Hockey Association. In 1911 the Czechoslovak team attended for the first time the European championship in Berlin. The 1925 European Championship was held at Štrbské Pleso. The first winter stadium was opened in Prague in 1931. At the end of 1984 there were 102 outdoor and 79 indoor stadiums in the Czech Republic. In the long history of ice hockey the Czech representation belongs to the best of the world. Czechoslovak representatives won the world championships in 1947, 1949, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1985 and fifteen times became European champions. Representatives of the Czech Republic became the 1996 and 1999 world champions, and in 1998 they won the gold Olympic medal at the "Tournament of the Century" at the Nagano Olympic Games.

New WWF stamps from Latvia

2008-04-05T11:37:00.013+02:00

Date of issue: 12th April 2008.
22 (S). multicoloured. Bat (Barbastella barbastellus).
31 (S). multicoloured. Bat (Myotis dasycneme).
45 (S). multicoloured. Bat (Barbastella barbastellus).
55 (S). multicoloured. Bat (Myotis dasycneme).
Michel catalogue numbers: 727-730
Printed in:4 Mini Sheets with 10 stamps each (tete-beche) with WWF Logo on border

Artwork Stamps:Ludis Danilans
Artwork FDC:Owen Bell