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  2013, Canada, Adopt a Pet series illustrator: Monika Melnychuk photography: Raef Miles The background of these stamps shows a...

2013, Canada The Kitchen Sink 1919 photographer: Margaret Watkins An unusual still life of domestic chores - a sink filled with cro...

2017, Canada, 100th Anniversary Vimy Ridge designer: Susan Scott This joint issue international rate stamp (France and Canada) shows...

1989, Finland, Christmas designer: Paavo Huovinen The Old Church at Sodankyla is one of the oldest timber churches in Lapland. It was ...

1954, Canada engraver: Silas Robert Allen based on a photograph by Dorothy Wilding This issue of six stamps featuring Queen Eli...

Canada The American (foreground) with Bridal Veil (the single fall just beyond the American) are completely on the US side of the borde...

2015, Canada, Weather Wonders - fog at Cape Spear Cape Spear is on the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland (near St John's) and is the ea...

The flowerpots in Tobermory on Georgian Bay were formed after years of rain, wind, waves and ice wore away at the cliff at the water...

2011, France, transportation In 2006 a tram network was opened in Mulhouse, a city in Alsace. By 2010 it also included this hybrid tram...

unsent, Easter featuring lily of the valley and a newly hatched chick, early signs of rebirth and spring for Postcards for the Weeke...

1951, Vietnam, Landscapes of Vietnam designer: Do Hoang Ke This olive green stamp shows Pongour Waterfall, the biggest of the falls in...

  received 2016, Czech Republic Krtek, (the Mole) is an animated cartoon created by Zdenek Miler. for whimsical po...

2009, Netherlands, Children's Stamp  surcharge artist: Christian Borstlap This stamp is one of a series of six for the theme ...

received 2017,  from Lithuania artist Luka Va Luka Va is from Lithuania, but now lives in Melbourne Australia. You can read an inter...

1981, Canada,  Aircraft based on a painting by Robert Bradford Between 1937 and 1942, 1500 Tiger Moths were built by de Havilland. T...

1973, Czechoslovakia graphic designer Karel Svolinsky engraver Ladislav Jirka for flowers

1980s (?) Norway There are about 1190 fjords in Norway. Some are as short as 2 or 3 kilometres. Sognefjorden is the largest and most w...

1953, Bermuda Bermuda lies in the North Atlantic about 1034 miles northeast of Miami, Florida and 768 miles south Sable Island, Nova Sc...

1980s (?) Netherlands The 19 windmills at Kinderdijk, near Rotterdam, have been a UNESCO site since 1997. The windmills themselves have...

1982, Canada, Heritage Artifacts Series designer: Jean Morin A weathercock is a 'wind vane' in the shape of a rooster often us...

At 2,190 square miles, it is Canada's smallest province. It was named for the father of Queen Victoria. Postcards for the weekend

 2014, Italy, commemorative Nutella was first sold in 1964, though it began, in a slightly different form, in 1946. Since chocolate ...

1973, China, Giant Panda Pandas are native to south central China, primarily in Sichuan province. It is thought that there are fewer th...

1984, St Lucia Green Iguana The Common Green Iguana, or iguana iguana (not sure why this stamp has it as Iguana iguana iguana) is nat...

1968, Rwanda African National Costumes Rwanda is a land locked country in the Great Lakes region of Central Eastern Africa and is in...

1992 Canada in Space The Anik E2 telecommunications satellite was launched in 1991 and retired in 2005.  The first Anik was launched in ...

January 9th, 2017, Canada prepaid postcard of domestic rate stamp The Chinese Year of the Fire Rooster begins on January 28th, 2017. ...

Jan 25, 1996 Great Britain for Bicentenary of Rabbie Burns calligraphy by Peter Horridge illustration by Graham Evernden A Red, Red Ro...

c 1950s postcard folder Sunset on Diamond Head Diamond Head is on the island of Oahu, near Waikiki for sunrise/sunset at Postcards fo...

2014, Russia, Olympics - curling Curling is played by sliding heavy granite stones (rocks) across an iced surface (sheet). It was inven...

2012, Germany, Christmas welfare stamp The chapel in this stamp is in Elmau/Oberbayern, Bavaria on the grounds of the Schloss Elmau . ...

1998 Czech Republic This black grouse is turning its back on the year that was. Unfortunately, these have been in decline for the las...

2007, Ireland Merry Christmas!

hang up the stocking turn out the light make way for Santa this is his night

2011, Finland, Christmas "Light in the Window" 1st class overseas designers: Aino-Maija Metsola and Georgi Eremenko Aino-Ma...

1965 Switzerland designer: Edi Hauri Edi Hauri (1911-88) was from Basel and a prolific graphic designer whose works included travel po...

2001, Botswana joint issue with South Africa The two stamps on this souvenir sheet are of a leopard and a bat eared fox . Though leo...

1998, US,  Celebrate the Century series illustrated by Richard Waldrep Binney & Smith developed its wax crayons in 1903 which we...

2013 Canada Children's Literature illustrator and author: Marie-Louise Gay This stamp features the cover illustration from the b...

1994, Saint Lucia,  Commemorating the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the women's branch of the British Army during the Second World...

2016, USA, National Parks Service Centenary photo by Art Wolfe Photographer Art Wolfe described this shot as "perfectly backlit b...

2016, USA Halloween carved by Paul Montanari photographed by Sally Andersen-Bruce designed by Derry Noyes The Forever Jack-O-Lantern...

2016, Australia Fair Dinkum Aussie Alphabet Series S for South Australia artist: Gavin Ryan The idea is for Australians to "grab...

1984 NABA ZURI National stamp show Jun 22 - July 1  se-tenant stamp showing a panorama view of Zurich Zurich is the largest city i...

2005, Russia, gastronomy designer: V Larichkin For 2005, the Europa theme was gastronomy and Russia chose to showcase a typical feast ...

1990, Canada for Canada Post Corporation This is how the Canada Post delivery vans looked in the late 1980s and 1990s. The Post Office ...