20150610 - CROATIA

UPDATE
NEW IMAGE and INFO

Original Post: November 28, 2014



 

 

 

Code:  CRO-2015-01

Release Date: June 10, 2015

 

Coming from:  Hrvatska pošta

Title:  Lighthouses 2015

Format: Set of 4 stamps

Sheets of: 10 stamps

Design:  Orsat Franković, designer, Zagreb
Photos:
Daksa and Glavat: Andrija Carli
Grebeni: Mario Romulić
Sv.Andrija: Damir Fabijanic

Printing Method:  Offset Multicolor

Paper: white 102 g, gummed

Gum:

Security:

Printed by: AKD d.o.o., Zagreb

Quantity:  100.000 series

 

As you can see, the lighthouses on the stamps are very small.  I think that the designer put more importance to the context and the geography than the lighthouse itself.  That is why I believe that the margins of the sheets in this serie are very important.  One of the 10 stamps in the sheet is attached to a margin with a very close look of the lighthouse.  I put the number of the ideal position. Lets see how much extra value give to these positions the sellers of Delcampe and EBay.

 

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Stamp with Margin position 4

Stamp 1 of 4 

Currency:  Kuna - HRK

Facial:  2.80

Service: 

Dimensions (mm):  48,28 x 29,82
Perf: 14
Lighthouse:  Daksa
All:  E-3600
Country: CROATIA

 

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Stamp with Margin position 3

 

Stamp 2 of 4 
Currency:  Kuna - HRK

Facial:  3.10

Service: 

Dimensions (mm):  48,28 x 29,82
Perf: 14
Lighthouse:  Glavat
All:  E-3554
Country:   CROATIA

 

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Stamp with Margin position 4

Stamp 3 of 4 

Currency:  Kuna - HRK

Facial:  4.60

Service: 

Dimensions (mm):  48,28 x 29,82
Perf: 14
Lighthouse:  Grebeni
All:  E-3598
Country:  CROATIA

*** The second light in this stamp at the distance is Sv Andrija, depicted in the next stamp ***

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Stamp with Margin position 2

 

Stamp 4 of 4 
Currency:  Kuna - HRK

Facial:  6.50

Service: 

Dimensions (mm):  48,28 x 29,82
Perf: 14
Lighthouse:  Sveti Andrija
All:  E-3590
Country:   CROATIA

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RELATED MATERIAL

 

Full Sheets
First Day Cover
Local First Day Cancellation Dubrovnik	First Day Cancellation

 Thanks Drazen for the images

 

20150520 - GREECE

Code: GRE-2015-01
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Postal Authority: Helenic Post
Title: 12th European Sea Ports Conference
Format: Set of 3 stamps (2 of them in Minisheets too)

Minisheet

 

Old view of the port of Piraeus with the breakwaters mole lights at the distance. 
South mole at left (N-4178  / Themistokleus)
North mole at right (N-4180  / Vasileus Georgios)

20150526 - NETHERLANDS

 

Code: NET-2015-01

Release Date: May 26, 2015

Postal Authority: Post NL

Title: Wonderful Netherland 2015 - Fortresses - Willemstad

Format: 1 stamp in Minisheets of 5

Sheets Dimensions (mm): 139 x 75

Stamp Dimensions (mm): 20,8 x 25,3

Perf: 14 1/2 x 14 1/4

Design: Traped in Suburbia, The Hague

Printing Method: Offset 4 colours

Paper: Normal

Security: Phosphor Tagging

Gum: Synthetic

Printed by: J Enschede Security Printers (Haarlem)

Quantity: 65000 Minisheets

No Lighthouse in the stamp design but at the upper margin of the sheet we see a brown tower (barely).

 

 

That tower are the remains of the old Willemstad lighthouse (ex ALL B-0577)

 

Here a view of Google Earth of that place.  Apparently the photo of the minisheet is old and do not show that building at the left of the lighthouse. Or the photo in Google is the old one, and that building does not exists anymore.

 

 

Thanks Jaap for the alert on this issue

2014 PDF File - Update to version 2.0

Hello Friends:

A new version (2.0)  of the PDF file of the year 2014 is available now. 
You can download for free   CLICKING HERE.

4 Doubtful ítems added (already posted here) plus 1 modification are the novelties of this version.

Add:
-Maldives:    MDV-2014-02
-St Thomas & Prince: STP-2014-03
-Guinea Republic: GUI-2014-02
-Togo: TOG-2014-06

Modification:
The issue from Greece of the last year have a modification regarding the format.  Besides the booklet stamp, there is also a smaller and gummed version of the stamp.  You can check it here:  GRE-2014-01

We keep in touch.
Carlos

PD: There will be activity this weekend here.  New issues from the Netherlands and from Greece.  Do not forget to bring the magnifying glass.

20150415 - NEVIS

UPDATE
New info
Original Post May 24, 2015

*** Not all the lighthouses are from England ***



 

 

Code:  NEV-2015-01

Release Date: April 15, 2015

 

Coming from:  Nevis Philatelic Bureau

Title:  Europhilex London 2015 - Lighthouses of England  (and Scotland)(*)

Format:  Minisheet of 6 stamps and Block with 1 stamp

Dimensions (mm):

Currency:  East Caribbean Dollar  (XCD)

Design: 

Printing Method: 

Paper:

Gum:

Security:

Printed by:
Quantity: 

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3.15 (XCD) Roker Pier - ENGLAND A-2681	3.15 (XCD) Beachy Head - ENGLAND A-0840
3.15 (XCD) New Dungeness - ENGLAND A-0876	3.15 (XCD) Smeaton`s Tower / Eddystone ENGLAND
3.15 (XCD) St.Catherine`s - ENGLAND A-0774	3.15 (XCD) Flamborough Head Chalk Tower ENGLAND

 

10 (XCD) The Needles - ENGLAND A-0528

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 (*)
Eckhard alerts me about this.  Not all the lighthouses depicted in this issue are from England (Although the title says so).  The one at the left of the minisheet (outside the stamps) is from Scotland, located at the most northerly point of mainland Britain.
 

Dunnet Head - A-3574

 

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Thanks to:

Jaap
Eckhard

 

 

General Info: Cancel from Turkey

First Day Cancellation from Turkey.  May 21, 2015.  The stamp released is for UNESCO and Heritage Sites. In the postmark appears Kiz Kulesi in a very stylistic way.   But...

 

But, look at the Minisheet released.  Kiz Kulesi is not in it.  But (again), I believe that the white tower inside the circle that I drew is Ahırkapı  (N-4903).    I will return to this in the future, as soon I can find a better image to confirm it.

20150606 – SAINT PIERRE et MIQUELON

NEW POST

 



 

 

 

Code:  SPM-2015-01

Release Date: June 06, 2015 

 

Coming from:  La Poste SPM

Title:  Cars from the ´50s

Format:  Minisheet of 4 stamps

Dimensions (mm): 170 x 115

Design:  Raphaëlle Goineau

Printing Method:  Offset

Paper:

Gum:

Security:

Printed by: Phil @ poste

Quantity:  50.000

 

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Stamp 4 of 4   -  RENAULT 4 CV
Currency:  Euro - EUR

Facial:  0.76 (EUR)

Service:  Prioritaire Letter up to 20g to France, Andorre and Monaco

Dimensions (mm): 
Perf:
Lighthouse:  Old Tête de Galantry (disapeared in 1980 and replaced with the new Galantry).
All: 
Country:  Saint Pierre et Miquelón (Saint Pierre Island)

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Visit   THIS SITE for more info about Galantry

 

 

General Info - Cancels from Spain

 

New Touristic postmarks with open date coming from Spain.  Luarca or Atalaya Point (D-1646) and Fisterra or Cape Finisterre (D-1742).  So, if you are lucky and can visit this places, you can build a nice philatelic souvenir with this cancellations.

 

Thanks Jaap for the alert.

20150611 - GERMANY

UPDATE
NEW IMAGES and INFO

Original Post: April 28, 2015 

 

 

 

Code:  GER-2015-01

Release Date:  June 11, 2015

 

Coming from:  Deutsche Post

Title:  Lighthouses 2015 - Moritzburg & Lindau

Format:  Set of 2 stamps

Sheets of: 10 stamps (same design) 5 x 2

Design:  Prof. Johannes Graf, Dortmund
Photo: Reinhard Scheiblich, Norderstedt

Printing Method:  Offset Multicolor

Paper: Coated, white and fluorescent /  DP II

Gum:

Security:

Printed by: Bagel Security-Print GmbH & Co. KG, Mönchengladbach

Quantity: 

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Stamp 1 of 2 
Currency:  Euro - EUR

Facial:  45  (0.45 EUR)

Service:  Local Postcard

Dimensions (mm):  35 x 35
Perf:
Lighthouse:  Moritzburg
All: 
Country:  GERMANY (Moritzburg - Saxony State) 

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Stamp 2 of 2 
Currency:  Euro - EUR

Facial:  62  (0.62 EUR)

Service:  Local Standard Letter up to 20g

Dimensions (mm):  35 x 35
Perf:
Lighthouse:  Lindau
All: 
Country:  GERMANY (Linday - Bavaria State)

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 RELATED MATERIAL
 

First Day Cancellations

Local Cancellations

 

Thanks to:

Klaus	http://www.leuchtturm-welt.net/
Jaap

 

 

General Info: Cancel from Italy

Postmark for the Centenary of entry of Italy in the WWI.    Date May 24 in Trieste.   And the beautiful  Vittoria Lighthouse in it.

Thanks Jaap for the alert.

20150527 – ITALY

UPDATE
New Images and Info

Original Post: February 20, 2015



 

 

 

Code:  ITA-2015-01

Release Date: May 27, 2015

 

Coming from:  Poste Italiane

Title:  Italian Artistic and Cultural Heritage 

Format:  Set of 7 stamps - Definitives

Sheets of: 28 stamps (same design)

Artist: Rita Fantini

Printing Method:  Intaglio

Paper: 90g/m2, white, neutral, non-fluorescent.

Gum: Self Adhesives

Security:

Printed by: IPZS SpA (Rome)

Quantity:  800.000 series

 

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Stamp 1 of 7
Currency:  Euro (EUR)

Facial:  0.80

Service:  Prioritaire Local Small Letter up to 20g

Dimensions (mm):  48 x 40
Perf: 11
Lighthouse:  Castello della Colombaia (ancient)
All: 
Country:  ITALY  (Trapani - Sicily)

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 RELATED MATERIAL
 

First Day Cancellation (Thanks Jaap)

 

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Thanks to:

Vaccari

http://www.vaccarinews.it/

 

 

20150507 - IRELAND

UPDATE

New Images

Original Post: April 26, 2015 



 

 

 

Code:  IRE-2015-01

Release Date:  May 07, 2015

 

Coming from:  An Post - IRELAND

Title:  Centenary of the Sinking of the RMS Lusitania

Format:  Serie of 2 stamps.  Singles and in Minisheets of 1 serie

Sheets of: 16 stamps

Design:  Steve Simpson

Research & Illustration: Vincent Killowry

Printing Method:  Lithography Multicolour

Paper: TR 102 gsm

Gum: PVA Gum

Security: Phosphor Tagging

Printed by: Cartor Security Printing

Quantity: 

 

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Stamp 2 of 2 
Currency:  EUR - Euro

Facial:  € 1

Service:  Standard Letter Worlwide up to 100g

Dimensions (mm):  40.6 x 29.8

Minisheet Dimensions (mm): 150 x 90
Perf: 14,3 x 14,1
Lighthouse:  Old Head of Kinsale
All:  A-5710
Country:  Ireland

 

 

Thanks to:

Jaap