May 8th, 2013 
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The theme of this year’s common Europa 2013 issue coming out in each Post Europe member country is “Postal Means of Transportation”. The Czech stamp depicts a symbol of Czechoslovak Post’s history – horse-drawn parcel mail coach. Model IV of this coach was based on a one-horse cargo coach used by Austrian Post. Like its [...]
September 8th, 2012 srmodh 3,834 views
Czech post issued a set of stamps Flower Growing – Beauty of Orchids. The stamps feature exotic orchids originating from foreign locations. This is the first time in the history of Czechoslovak and Czech design that this motif has been chosen for a stamp. The orchid family is a diverse and widespread family of flowering [...]
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Tags: Czech Republic, flora, flower stamps, nature 
No Comments » June 21st, 2012 srmodh 1,397 views
Javelin throw, included in the ancient Greek Olympic Games since the year 776 BC as one of five events of the pentathlon competition. The dominant bronze sculpture (front) of a classical javelin thrower from the 5th century BC and his contemporary counterpart (background) represent the long tradition of the Olympics and the position of athletics [...]
Posted in Czech Republic Tags: Czech Republic, london2012, Olympic stamps, sports stamps No Comments » May 8th, 2012 srmodh 1,465 views
This year´s common theme for the annual EUROPA issue, announced by the Association of European Public Postal Operators PostEurop, is Invitation to the Issuing Country. The motifs chosen by the author for the invitation stamp are the Old Town Bridge Tower and the Dancing House, or the past and present intertwined. The Old Town Bridge [...]
September 23rd, 2011 srmodh 1,101 viewsThe organ at the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady in the Cistercian Monastery in Plasy is a unique early Baroque instrument. Built in 1688 by leading Czech organ builder Abraham Stark from Loket, it had 29 registers and is still counted among the largest organs in the Czech Republic. The first large restoration [...]
September 3rd, 2011 srmodh 1,762 viewsThe importance of the Šumava National Park and Protected Landscape Area grew in 1990 with the declaration of a biosphere reserve (part of the UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme) covering almost the entire Šumava region and the neighbouring Bavarian Forest National Park in Germany. The Šumava Biosphere Reserve is to preserve the typical [...]
July 6th, 2011 srmodh 2,306 viewsLike the Olympic games, the top prestigious EUROPA CUP competition in floral design takes place once every four years in one of the member countries of FLORINT, the European Federation of Professional Florist Associations. The federation was formed in Strasbourg in 1956 under the name Fédération Européenne des Unions Professioneless des Fleuristes (FEUPF) and changed [...]
May 20th, 2011 srmodh 5,208 viewsAn alluvial forest is a hardwood forest found on low levees, ridges and terraces with a high level of underground water within the floodplains of streams and rivers. This type of forest grows in areas that are slightly elevated above floodplain swamp and are usually flooded for a portion of the growing season. Formerly a [...]
February 16th, 2011 srmodh 2,211 viewsSlovak Post issued a stamp designed by the four member countries of the Visegrad Group (also known as the Visegrad Four, or V4) on the Slovak Ambassador to V4′s initiative, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of establishment of this alliance of four Central European countries, i.e. Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The idea of [...]
Posted in Czech Republic Tags: anniversary, Czech Republic, group, history, joint issue No Comments » October 20th, 2010 srmodh 1,328 viewsCzech post will issue a set of stamp in the craft series featuring Historical stoves of Art Nouveau and Art Deco.
Australia is hosting an International Stamp Exhibition, AUSTRALIA 2013 in Melbourne, from 10 - 15 May 2013 at the Exhibition Buildings, Carlton, Melbourne.
Thailand will host THAILAND 2013 - World Stamp Exhibition from 2 to14 August, on the 130th anniversary of the Thailand’s postal service.
