A stamp issue from the South Arabian postal administration of Aden in 1968 was dedicated to the old and, what might have been considered by its designers in 1968, new wonders of the world. The stamp sheet has two...
The country name on Albanian stamps has changed many times over the years - in 1937 it was written SHQIPNI and in 1939 it was called SHQIPTARE. The Albanian language, called 'shqip' or 'shqipe' by Albanians, is of interest to linguists because, as...
On January 13, 1983, the Deutsche Bundespost issued a series of four values for Berlin under the title 'Historic Berlin Street Pumps'. It was only after the stamps' release that the Berlin Water Works company noticed that something was...
Take a close look at these USSR stamps, issued in December 1984 for the New Year celebrations, which depict Moscow's Spasskaya Tower. The tower's clock reads '5 before 12', but the stamp's designer made a mistake by showing six...
As the second highest value of a stamp series in honour of famous musicians/composers, this stamp from Paraguay appeared on July 1, 1980 with an edition of 35,000 copies. The stamp shows a reproduction of the painting 'Dancers,...
The Soviet Union amazed the world on Nov. 3, 1957, with the launch of the small satellite Sputnik 2. On board was a small dog, Laika, the first animal to actually orbit Earth. Unfortunately Laika was doomed to die...
On May 13, 1970, two special stamps were issued in the German Democratic Republic (DDR) for the 25th anniversary of broadcasting in the GDR. The two stamps were printed as a pair. The 10 Pfg. has shortwave antennae in...
For Christmas 1983 and also to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Italian artist and architect Raphael (1483-1520), the postal administration of the British Crown Colony of Gibraltar issued a series in November 1983, consisting of...
The normally careful and precise Swiss postal administration made a mistake with one of the stamps from the series "Constellations and Landscapes" which ran from 1982-86.
The stamp, issued in 1983, shows what is meant to be a naked...
Dancer with a Bouquet of Flowers is the title of a painting by Edgar Degas shown on a stamp in a series featuring famous composers with artwork by Degas, issued by Paraguay in 1980.
But some things were not quite...
