EURO 2008

Goodbye Euro!!!

Portugal 2 : Germany 3

What a shame for Portugal... yes... I'm Portuguese but I'm also a philatelist and because of that I appreciate the great stamps some countries issued to commemorate EURO 2008! Yes... I know... not everything can be bad!!!


Above you can see one FDC from Poland... very nice isn't it?

See you soon in front of a TV watching a football game somewhere!!! :)

Micronesia Pioneers

The Federated States of Micronesia, AKA Micronesia, is an island country located in the Micronesia region in the Pacific Ocean.

Above you can see a cover with 2 stamps issued in 1995 in sheets of 8 stamps celebrating FLIGHT PIONEERS.

From top to bottom and left to right you can see:

Robert Goddard
Leroy Grumman
Hugo Junkers
James Lovell
Louis-Charles Breguet
Juan de la Cierva
Donald Douglas
Reginald Mitchell

Portugal NEW Issue

Internacional Polar Year

Issue date
2008/06/23

Stamps
€ 0,30 – 280 000
€ 0,52 - 230 000
€ 0,61 – 230 000
€ 1,00 – 230 000

Souvenir sheet with 1 stamp
€ 2,95 – 60 000

“Polar birds that visit the Portuguese coast”

"Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea), which migrates annually from the Arctic to the Antarctic, passing over Portuguese waters.

Sanderling (Calidris alba), which nests in the High Arctic in such remote locations as Greenland, Siberia and Ellesmere island.

Wilson’s Storm Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus), which nests on the islands of the Antarctic, is another quintessential representative of this icy continent.

Razorbill (Alca torda), which nests on Arctic cliffs and spends its winters off the Portuguese coast. A species that dives for food, it is frequently entangled in fishing nets, causing large numbers to be washed up lifeless on Portuguese beaches."

For more details please click here.

Italian Red Cross

Hope you've enjoyed my last post... Today I bring you... ITALY on a cover!

The stamp was issued in 2007 (single value) about CASTLES & FORTIFICATIONS. The cancellation commemorates the 100 birthday of the volunteer nurses body - Italian Red Cross.

Palau - Religion and WWF

Hello fellow collectors and blog readers...

I'm so sorry for such an absence from the blog but I really was with no time at all to write.

Now I hope to be back for a longer period of time and showing you interesting stamps and covers.

Today I have for you a cover from PALAU (an island nation from Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean).


The stamp on the left was issued in 2007 as a s/s to commemorate the 80th birthday of Pope Benedict XVI.

The one on the right was issued in a 4v set in 2006 for WWF - showing the CHAMBERED NAUTILUS.

India - miniature sheet on Madhubala - film actress.

hi !

This is the miniature sheet released on Madhubala the film actress of yesteryears.

Raghavendra