Category: Stamp of the Month

Swiss Inventions – Toilet Duck: When Swiss Ideas Make Waves A duck for the toilet, a digger that can climb, and burrs that inspired fashion – Switzerland is full of ingenious inventions. The Stamp of the Month for September 2025 honors the Toilet Duck, a symbol of inventive spirit and humor. It shows that Swiss Read More …

The stamp of the month for August took me on a journey into the past – to a man whose name is scarcely known today, yet whose invention still shapes our everyday lives: Nicolas-Jacques Conté (1755–1805). An artist and technician, both visionary and practitioner, to whom we owe the pencil in its modern form. An Read More …

Just in time for summer, when beaches are crowded and surfboards dominate the scene, Spain released a special issue. The new 3-euro stamp features Basque surfer Nadia Erostarbe performing a spectacular backside off-the-lip move (in this maneuver, the surfer rides with her back to the wave up to the lip and then sharply directs the Read More …

On 5 June 2025, Deutsche Post issued a special stamp to mark the International Year of Quantum Science. The occasion is the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics – a theory that plays a central role in modern research and technology. The stamp was designed by Frank Philippin, based on an illustration by Johan Jarnestad for Read More …

After the Swiss Post issued Thermoink stamps about a year ago as a tribute to the Swiss abroad, another stamp with a special reference to swiss traditions is now being released – featuring an extraordinary technical production process. Just in time for the triennial Federal Wrestling and Alpine Festival (ESAF) 2025, taking place from August Read More …

With Josephine Baker, Monaco’s philately honors not only a great entertainer but also an extraordinary personality of the 20th century who passed away 50 years ago. The artist, born in the USA, became a star in Paris during the 1920s. Her performance in the legendary banana skirt made her famous – but behind the dazzling Read More …

Perhaps inspired by the 2022 Europa series, which focused on legends and myths from participating European countries, the United Kingdom issued a stamp series on the same theme on March 27, 2025. Eight designs each tell a mythological story from the country. Since presenting each legend in detail would go beyond the scope of this Read More …

The stamp series – which also commemorates the end of World War II 80 years ago – honors an extraordinary chapter in San Marino’s history: the reception of over 100,000 refugees between late 1943 and 1945. This number was more than six times the population of San Marino at the time, which had only around Read More …

The Hungarian Post is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Rubik’s Cube® with a special stamp issue. The Rubik’s Cube®, originally called the “Magic Cube,” was invented by Ernő Rubik in 1975 and patented in 1977. To mark this occasion, a numbered souvenir sheet featuring a scrambled Rubik’s Cube® will be released, along with an Read More …

The European yew (Taxus baccata) is not only found in Europe, but also in certain regions of North Africa, including Algeria. Here it reaches the southern limit of its range and can now be found on a stamp from Algeria (see below for details). At first I had overlooked this stamp as “Stamp of the Read More …