20130411 - AZERBAIJAN

... and here it is another candidate to best issue of 2013.

 

 

 

Code: AZE-2013-02

Release Date: April 11, 2013

Philatelic Authority: Azermarka Company

Title: Lighthouses of Azerbaijan - Absheron Archipelago

Format: Block with 5 stamps + complement with archipelago´s map and lighthouses locations

Dimensions (mm): 95 x 133

Design: Kh. Mirzoyev.

Printing Process: Offset

Quantity: 20.000 blocks

 

Stamps Dimensions (mm): 28 x 40

Perforation: 12  -  Azermarka always releases a few number of these blocks imperforated too.

Currency: Manat (AZN)

Facial: 50 qəp (0,50 AZN)

 

Şüvəlan (Shuvalan)
Lighthouse

 

Amburan
Lighthouse

 

Böyük Zirə
(Boyuk Zira)
Lighthouse

 

Abşeron (Absheron)
Lighthouse 

 

Çilov (Chilov)
Lighthouse

EXTRA MATERIAL

 

First Day Cover

 

Thanks Klaus for the alert on this issue.

20130509 - PORTUGAL

Code: POR-2013-01
Release Date: May 09, 2013
Postal Authority: Ctt
Title: EUROPA 2013 - The Postman Van
Format: 1 stamp and Block
Sheets of: 10 stamps and Block of 2 stamps
Dimensions (mm):
Stamp: 40 x 30.6
Block: 125 x 95
Perforation: 13 + Cross of Christ
Currency: Euro - EUR
Facial:
Stamp: € 0.70
Block: € 1.40  (2 x 0.70)
Design: Atelier Design & etc
Printing Process: Offset
Paper: FSC 110 g/m2
Printed by: Cartor
Quantity:
Stamp: 175.000
Block: 60.000

Lighthouse: Block with the Torre de Belem


The stamps and blocks depicted next from Madeira and Azores complete de Europa issue from Portugal for this year.

Thanks Kramer for the alert on this issue.

20130713 - United States of America

*** UPDATED with confirmed release date ***

 

 

Code: USA-2013-01
Release Date: July 13,   2013
Postal Authority: US Postal Service
Title: New England Coastal Lighthouses
Format: Serie of 5 stamps
Art Directors: Howard E. Paine and Greg Breeding
Paintings: Howard Koslow
Facial: Forever (for First Class Mail - 1 ounce rate)
Lighthouses:
Portland Head (Maine)
Portsmouth Harbor (N.Hampshire)
Boston Harbor (Massachusetts)
Point Judith (Rodhe Island)
New London Harbor (Connecticut)

Thanks to Dalene Thomas from the site   "Lighthouse Stamps Society"   for the alert on this issue.

20130625 - JAPAN

*** Another issue from Japan in June ***

 

 

 

 

Code: JAP-2013-02

Release Date: June 25, 2013

Postal Authority: Japan Post

Title: Travel Scenes Series Number 18  - Chiba Prefecture

Format: Block with 10 differents stamps

Dimensions (mm): 140 x 213

Designer: Satoshi Maruyama

Printing Process: Offset 5 colours

Quantity: 1.200.000 Blocks

Currency: Yen - JPY

 

 

Stamp Number 10

 



 

Facial: 80  (JPY)

Service: Local Standard Letter up to 25 gr

Photo: Satoshi Maruyama

Dimensions (mm): 28 x 36,50

Lighthouse: Inubō Saki

 

 



20130606 - GERMANY

 

 

** Updated with Images **

Code: GER-2013-01
Release Date: June 06, 2013
Postal Authority: Deutsche Post
Title: Lighthouses 2013
Format: Serie of 2 stamps
Currency: Euro - EUR

 

Facial: 45 (0.45 EUR)

Service: Domestic Postcard

Lighthouse: Flügge



 

Facial: 58 (0.58 EUR)

Service: Standard Domestic Letter up to 20 gr

Lighthouse: Büsum

Thanks to Klaus for the alert and the images of this issue.

NSWL 2012 - New Version

Hello Friends and Readers of this blog.
It is now available a new version of the 2012 list.  It was updated with 3 new issues (North Korea and  2 from Mozambique). You can download from here:

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?2a63d9pfi7ou1at

It´s a free hosting service. If you have any problem to download the file from there, you can send me a mail and I will send you a copy. Just put in the subjet "2012 File". No need to write something else.

 

We keep in touch

Carlos.

20130614 - JAPAN

Code: JAP-2013-01
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Postal Authority: Japan Post
Title: 60th Anniversary of Enforcement of the Local Autonomy Law -  HIROSHIMA
Format: Block with 5 stamps
Dimensions (mm): 93.5 x 175
Designer: Satoshi Maruyama
Printing Process: Rotogravure 6 colours
Quantity: 1.400.000 Blocks (7.000.000 stamps)
Currency: Yen - JPY

Stamp 5

 

Facial: 80  (JPY)

Service: Local Standard Letter up to 25 gr

Dimensions (mm): 28 x 33.5

Lighthouse: Tomonoura 

 

 

 

20130425 - IRELAND

 

Code: IRE-2013-01
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Postal Authority: An Post
Title: Contemporary Arts - Visual Arts I
Format: Serie of 4 stamps in Booklet of 1 serie
Design: Ger Garland
Printing Process: Lithography Multicolor with Phosphor Tagging
Printed by: Irish Security Stamp Printing Ltd.
Quantity: 100.000 series

Stamp

 

 

Currency: Euro - EUR
Facial: 60c (0,60 EUR)
Service: Local and North Ireland Standard Postcard or Letter up to 100g
Dimensions (mm): 43.74 x 38.10
Perf: 14
Work: "Ghost Ship" by Dorothy Cross
Lighthouse: Decommissioned Lightship named ALBATROSS.  He was active between 1925 and 1970.


Thanks Klaus for the alert on this issue.
Thanks Eckhard for the information.

BACK On Line

Hello Friends and Readers of this blog. 

Back on line after a short break. There are some new stamps to post from IRELAND and TURKEY.  But that is for tomorrow.  Now we have to finish what I started last week. 

 

The answer to the question of the contest of last week is "PERU".  The lighthouse in the photo is "La Marina" (ALL G 2045) and it was one of the two stamps of the 2009 serie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the other one that complete the serie.
Clock Tower Muelle de Guerra (G 2058)

 

 

 

Winners

- Drazen from Croatia

- Jaap from the Netherlands



 

Closed for Vacations

Hello friends and readers of this blog.  It´s that time of the year for me... Vacations.  No new entries until mid April. See you then.

***Updated April 05***

 

 

CONTEST

Where is located this Lighthouse?

 

Helping data:

1- This lighthouse was on a stamp in 2009.  It is not listed here. 

2- The palm trees also appear in that stamp.

 

Today I was in the local post office and I have 2 sets of that serie for 2 winners that answer correctly the country where is located.  If there are more than 2 winners,  I will flip the coin to choose them. 

Send me an e-mail with your answer (do not use the comments section).

 

Just a few more days and back to work.

 

Regards

Carlos.

 

 

 



20130320 - URUGUAY

Code: URU-2013-01
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Postal Authority: Correo Uruguayo
Title: 100 Years Club Atlético Defensor
Format: 1 stamp
Sheets of: 8 stamps with label
Dimensions (mm): 42 x 30
Perf: 12 1/2
Design: Eduardo Salgado
Printed by: Sanfer SRL
Quantity: 15.000 stamps

Currency: Uruguay Pesos - UYU
Facial: $ 15
Service: Ordinary (Simple) Local Letter up to 20 grs.
Lighthouse: Stamp and Label with the Club´s shield and a stylized version of Punta Carreta / Punta Brava lighthouse from Montevideo in it.

Club Atlético Defensor was founded in 1913, in the proximity of the Lighthouse of Punta Carreta (or Punta Brava),  at the south of Montevideo.  This iconic figure was used in the shield of the club.

Punta Brava Lighthouse
Issue from 2000
Sc   1858d

http://www.defensorsporting.com.uy/home/simbolos.php

DOUBTFUL - Mozambique 2012

Format:  Minisheet of 6 stamps AND Block of 1 stamp
Title: Gustaf Dalén

- The new version of the 2012 PDF File with this addition will be available late April.

- Thanks Jaap for the alert on this issue

DOUBTFUL - Mozambique 2012

Format:  Minisheet of 6 stamps AND BLock of 1 stamp
Title: Lighthouse of Charlestone

- The new version of the 2012 PDF File with this addition will be available late April.

- Thanks Jaap for the alert on this issue.

20130411 - JERSEY

Jersey Again.

 

 

Code: JER-2013-03
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Postal Authority: Jersey Post
Title: Corbiere,  Grand National Winner 1983
Format: Serie of 4 stamps and  Block with 1 stamp
Sheets of: 10 stamps
Block Dimensions (mm):94 x 97
Stamp Dimensions (mm): 50,5 x 30
Block Stamp Dimensions (mm): 80 x 51
Perf: 14 1/4 x 13 1/4 
Paintings: Nick Watton
Printed by: Joh. Enschedé (Holland)

Block stamp

 

L 2  (2 Pounds)
Service: International (Outside Europe) Large Letter up to 100g

La Corbiere  (Lighthouse and Horse) - (*)

 

(*) From Jersey Post...  "Depicting Corbiere the racehorse when he was brought to Jersey by his owner following his Grand National win. He was taken to the lighthouse, Corbiere, after which he was named due to the white blaze on his face"

RELATED MATERIAL

 

Presentation Pack

 

 

 

Border of the Sheets with another
view of the lighthouse

 

 

UNCUT Sheet of 12 Blocks.
Only 200 availables.
A very nice item for Collectors

 

 

20130405 - MONACO

** Updated with new images and info **

 

 

Final look of the stamp



Code: MON-2013-01
Release Date: April 05, 2013
Philatelic Authority: Office des Émissions de Timbres-Poste - Monaco
Title: Ecological Transports of Monaco
Format: 2 stamps se-tenant
Sheets of: 10 stamps (5 series)
Dimensions (mm): 81,70 x 30  (pair se-tenant)
Design: Richard Seren
Printing Process: Offset/vernis sérigraphique
Quantity: 50.000 pairs
Currency: Euro - EUR
Facial: 1.85€ 
Service: Non Prioritaire letter to France/Monaco/Andorra up to 250gr (€ 1.85)

Lighthouse: Stylized Jetty HeadLights 

This release is a good excuse to look at some old stamps from Monaco. In those stamps, the real jetty lights (north and south) from Monte Carlo, were depicted. In 2006 they were demolished.

1932 - Definitives
Sc 121    Yv 127

1968 - Railway Niza-Monaco
Sc  696    Yv 756

1977 - Tenis
Sc 1091    Yv 1121

List of stamps with lighthouses from MONACO:  Click Here

20120705 - KOREA DPR

Code: NKR-2012-01
Release Date: July 05, 2012
Postal Authority: The State Stamp Bureau of DPRK
Title: Red Cross    (not confirmed)
Format: 1 stamp
Sheets of: 8 stamps + 1 complement

Where is the lighthouse?:

In the complement - Jamae Do / Chamae Do Lighthouse

 

 

- The new version of the 2012 PDF File with this addition will be available late April.

- Thanks Klaus for the alert.

20130402 - JERSEY

*** Updated with new images and info ***

 

 

 

 

 

 

Code: JER-2013-02

Release Date: April 02, 2013

Postal Authority: Jersey Post

Title: Buses III - The J.M.T. (*)

Format: Serie of 6 stamps

Sheets of: 10 Stamps

Dimensions (mm): 41 x 30

Perf: 15 x 14 1/2

Design: A.R.Copp

Printed by: BDT International

 

 

Stamp N.4

 

68   (0.68 Pound)
Service: Local Large Letter up to 100grs

La Corbiere Lighthouse - JERSEY

 

 

 

Thanks to Derrick and Jaap for the alert.

 

 



DOUBTFUL - Togo 2013

Format: Minisheet of 4 stamps and Block with 1 stamp
Title: Lighthouses in Painting

Thanks Jorge from Canadá and Jaap for the alert and the images.

20130225 - AZERBAIJAN

Code: AZE-2013-01
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Philatelic Authority: Azermarka Company
Title: The Postman Van  - EUROPA 2013
Format: Serie of 2 stamps and Block with 1 stamp
Sheets of: 10 stamps
Booklets of: 8 stamps (4 series)
Currency: Manat (AZN)

Stamp 1

20 qəp (0,20 AZN)
Maiden's Tower - AZERBAIJAN

Block

Maiden's Tower
Outside the Stamp

RELATED MATERIAL: Booklet

Images and Information from Europa-Stamps Blog:

http://www.europa-stamps.blogspot.com/

Thank you very much.