The Isle of Man Post Office celebrate the Centenary of Guiding with this set of eight stamps which also includes the Europa theme of Children’s Books. The Girl Guides Association was officially formed in 1910 with Agnes Baden-Powell (Robert’s sister) as President.
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Classic Trademarks “Kleinbahn”
February 12th, 2010 
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1,140 viewsIn 1979 “Gebrüder Klein OHG” was dissolved and split up into two companies. After 1984, two model railway manufacturers were run at the old company site, with Erich Klein managing the “Kleinbahn, mechanische Werkstätte – Spielwarenerzeugung Ing. Erich Klein” and continuing the successful line of inexpensive products, a business that has now been taken over [...]
Prinz Eugen
February 9th, 2010 srmodh 856 viewsIn a way the new commemorative by the Austrian Post Office is a philatelic accompaniment to the major exhibition on “Prinz Eugen, General and Philosopher. The Noble Knight as Cultural Hero” (12 February to 6 June 2010 in the Unteres Belvedere and the Orangerie). The stamp thus commemorates one of the country’s most important personalities [...]
Modern Art in Austria – Helmut Kand
February 8th, 2010 srmodh 1,347 viewsAustria post issues a new commemorative stamp of cheerful and colourful continuation of the popular “Modern Art in Austria” series. The new stamp depicts a painting by Helmut Kand, a poetic Surrealist or, as the “Münchner Abendzeitung” once put it, “a man who makes the impossible plausible”. Prof. Helmut Kand spent his childhood in Styria [...]
2010 Personalised Stamps
February 8th, 2010 srmodh 955 viewsNew Zealand Post issues a set of personal postage stamp complementing the existing range of Personalised Stamps, this stamp issue sees the introduction of the ‘Heitiki’, together with the most popular of the existing stamp images.
Maps
February 7th, 2010 srmodh 1,347 viewsJersey Post will issue five new self-adhesive postage stamps for use on items of mail requiring the minimum postage tariff for the other Channel Islands and United Kingdom destinations. The stamps will feature a variety of maps of Jersey, both antique and modern, dating from 1685 and it is interesting to observe the apparent thoughts [...]
