Category: Specials
March 2024 – Eclipse
Even today, there are still special stamps, as Canada Post proved in March 2024. It took the total solar eclipse occurring on 8 April as its theme. On this day, it will be visible for the first and only time this century in parts of the three largest countries in North America – Mexico, the Read More …
January 2024 – Puzzle (en translation)
For the Year of the Dragon (starting in February 2024), Liechtensteinische Post has issued a collection sheet with four stamps at CHF 2.30 each. This sheet is the subject of the puzzle below. You can find more information about the stamp below the puzzle. The stamp was designed by Leng Bingchuan, who depicts a vital, Read More …
Januar 2024 – Confetti (en translation)
Just in time for the start of carnival on November 11, Swiss Post surprised everyone on November 9, 2023 with a fascinating innovation: stamps in a unique “confetti” format. Instead of the usual individual stamps, this special stamp requires five separate stickers to achieve the value of a conventional stamp. The idea came from Phillip Read More …
A triptych is made to shine
The unusual design of today’s stamp block from Liechtenstein (BL25) is based on a historical triptych. It was created in 1490 by an unknown artist from the Alpine region. In the course of the transition from the Middle Ages to modern times, he dispensed with the traditional background in gold on the side wings and Read More …
December 2023 – Puzzle
Dear puzzle friends, after a long time a puzzle again. Just in time for Christmas. And so that you can enjoy it for a long time, this time something 144 pieces. The four Christmas stamps from Liechtenstein are to be put together.
July 2023 – a garden strawberry
Today I probably bought the last strawberries from the farmer in our village. So the time of my favorite fruit has passed in the meantime. But I will still have a stamp that reminds me of that time. This stamp comes from France and was issued in 2011 on the occasion of the “Stamp Day”. Read More …
May 2023 – Puzzle
Dear puzzle friends, here you can find the first puzzle after the website crashed. Unfortunately, the puzzles of the last two months are lost. But still, here you can play again. Assembled is a stamp from Japan with a camphor tree – the tree of the city of Hiroshima.
Februar 2023 – Bacteria and Dogs diagnoze diseases
The future of medical diagnostics is really exciting at the moment. In research, however, we keep coming back to old familiar knowledge, such as using the sense of smell for diagnostics – as the ancient Greeks already did. Even if nowadays doctors don’t sniff us themselves, we can probably rely on the sense of smell Read More …
Februar 2023 – Water – a precious commodity
The best husband ever, was traveling in northern Italy last week. One sentence from what he told me stuck with me: “The rivers have almost no water, it’s all very, very dry.” Freshwater scarcity – an issue that will probably become more and more pressing in the future. But it’s also an issue that has Read More …