20100201 - Canada

Release Date: February 01 - 2010
Postal Authority: Canada Post - Postes Canada
Title: William Hall V.C. / Black History Month
Format: 1 Stamp
Sheets of: 16 Stamps
Facial: 57 (0.57 Canadian Dollar)
Dimensions (mm):  40 x 39.65
Designers: Suzanne Duranceau (Ilust) - Lara Minja (Lime Design Inc)
Printing Process: Lithography - 7 Colours
Printed by: Lowe-Martin
Quantity issued: 1600000... but only 100000 attached to the lighthouse.

Where is the Lighthouse? Well... it is not in the stamp. We have to look at the label of the stamp number 2 in the sheet of 16. The design reproduce an engraving titled "Canso Lighthouse, Extreme Point of Nova Scotia" that belong to the Nova Scotia Museum of Cultural History.(http://museum.gov.ns.ca/imagesns/html/21916.html)

Thanks to Jaap (Netherlands) for the alert of this issue.

 

 

20100225 - Alderney

Release Date: February 25 - 2010

Postal Authority: Guernsey Post

Title: Dragonflies

Format: Block + 6 Stamps

Block Dimensions (mm): 140 x 100

Designer: Petula Stone

Printing Process: Offset Lithography

Paper: 110 gsm Underwatermarked PVA Adhesive

Printed by: BDT International

Stamp

Facial: 83 (pence)

Dimensions (mm): 38 x 30,56

Perf: 13 3/4

Sheets of: 10 Stamps

Lighthouse:  Alderney (Alderney)

 

In 2009 they put this lighthouse in stamps of Bees and Birds, this year in Dragonflies. Which flying creature will be in 2011?

20100212 - Argentina

Release Date: February 12 - 2010
Postal Authority: Correo Argentino
Title: UP Definitives - New Value 
Format: 1 Stamp
Facial: ($ 6)
Dimensions (mm): 35 x 25
Sheets of: 40 (8x5)
Perf: 13 1/2 + Security perf. at the top and bottom left.
Printing Process: Offset
Printed by: Letra Viva S.A. (Buenos Aires)
Catalogue Number:  Gj (Argentina): 3789

Lighthouse: Les Eclaireurs (Argentina)