Many beautiful stamps have been issued for the year 2008 on 'Letter Writing' which is this year's theme for EUROPA stamps. Some of them which I found intresting are shown here. But the stamp I liked most is the stamp issued by Poland on 5th May 2008 with the most exclusive design and innovative idea than the other ones. When I see such striking ideas of the artists my heart is filled with great respect and appreciation for them. These novel ideas of a person makes him special and different from others.The designing artist placed an envelope with the calligraphed address on the table, between knife and fork instead of a plate, and thus it became something that appeases hunger, although not a physiological one. After all the letters, as the photographs, are the material records of fragments of life, a moment to be remembered or an instant emotion, and therefore they are a piece of art, being at the same time a historical document. This particular way of communication may be only imperfectly replaced by the e-mail or internet chat. We used to come back to some letters after many years, they are also stored and recalled. This issue, reminding us about the value of the handwritten letter, is accompanied by an occasional postmark in a form of the addressed envelope. Hope you would also enjoy these issues and these will take you down memory lane when you used to write letters to you dear ones.Why don't you pick up your pen just now and write a letter to your friend. Send it by post and enjoy the pleasure of writing letters. This is all for Today ! Have a nice Day and Happy Collecting.......
Date of Issue- 5 May 2008
The EUROPA Stamps and the tradition of joint issues of the EUROPA stamps is over 50 years old now. In 1956 six postal operators of the original member countries of the European Union (Belgium, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany and Italy) have prepared a joint issue of the stamp with the word EUROPA in a form of a tower built of its letters. The joint issues have been continued recurrently up to 1973 always with common design with the leading themes such as: Europe, unity and peace, only gradually supplemented with some symbols of telecommunications. Since 1974 only Europe as the leading subject remained, and the stamps are designed by each country individually. The range of possible themes has become therefore much broader, including culture, famous personages, or inventions, but also some more general problems, such as nature conservation or the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America in 1992. The EUROPA stamps should on one side contribute on popularity of the community ideas while on the other side they should help in mutual understanding of the various traditions. Moreover, they underline cooperation of the European public postal operators, particularly in the domain of philately.CEPT - European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations was an official sponsor of the EUROPA joint issues in the years 1959-92. After that PostEurop - Association of the European Postal Public Operators. Exists since 1993 and it takes care about the EUROPA joint issues.
Date of Issue - 5 May 2008
Date of Issue: 9th May 2008
This is the stamp from Andorra and you can see first letter of Hindi alphabet and other Indian regional languages. This can be attractive and new for those collecting on calligraphy or Indian theme.
Date of Issue- 1 June 2008
This beautiful stamp set is from Gibraltar issued on 1st June. I have already written about it in my earlier post but it will be unfair if i dont mention it here as it depicts our father of nation Mahatmat Gandhi and other three famous personalities of the world writing letters.
Date of Issue: 26th May 2008
This se-tenant stamp is from Greece with also a good design and giving a look of olden times with old letters and pen. The issues shown below will attract children very much as these have beautiful cartoon designs on witing letters and their importance in our life.
Date of Issue: 13th June 2008
