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Upcoming Issue: | Australia: 13/2009
Tuesday, 14 July 2009 Commemorative Issue
Australian Parks and Gardens
Public parks and gardens are for everybody. They engage and
inspire people. With their trees and open spaces they are
pleasant places where children play, dogs are walked, bicycles
are ridden and runners jog. They are also places where people
come to relax, providing people of all ages with the opportunity
to enjoy nature. In modern Australia, parks are of inestimable
value, providing economic, social and cultural benefi ts for the
whole of society. ... copyright notice: This material has been reproduced with permission of the Australian Postal Corporation. The original work is held in the National Philatelic Collection. |
| Australia: 14/2009
Tuesday, 28 July 2009 Commemorative Issue
Micro Monsters
Micro Monsters is a fascinating issue that reveals a wonderful microscopic world most of us never have a chance to see. Familiar everyday insects, magnified many times, are shown in a new
light. The stamps feature an Ant; a Jumping Spider; a Weevil; a Hatchet Wasp; a Ground Beetle and a Dead Leaf Mimic Mantis (or Praying Mantis). The miniature sheet shows a detail of a
Common Cabbage White Butterfly's wing. When photographed by a scanning electron microscope (SEM), these tiny insects become fantastically monster-like in appearance, creating a quite different and wonderfully unique experience of these relatively common
creatures. ... copyright notice: This material has been reproduced with permission of the Australian Postal Corporation. The original work is held in the National Philatelic Collection. |
| Australia: 14/2009
Tuesday, 28 July 2009 Miniature Sheet
Micro Monsters - Minisheet
Micro Monsters is a fascinating issue that reveals a wonderful microscopic world most of us never have a chance to see. Familiar everyday insects, magnified many times, are shown in a new
light. The stamps feature an Ant; a Jumping Spider; a Weevil; a Hatchet Wasp; a Ground Beetle and a Dead Leaf Mimic Mantis (or Praying Mantis). The miniature sheet shows a detail of a
Common Cabbage White Butterfly's wing. When photographed by a scanning electron microscope (SEM), these tiny insects become fantastically monster-like in appearance, creating a quite different and wonderfully unique experience of these relatively common
creatures. ... copyright notice: This material has been reproduced with permission of the Australian Postal Corporation. The original work is held in the National Philatelic Collection. |
| Australia: 15/2009
Tuesday, 04 August 2009 Miniature Sheet
Species at Risk - Joint Territories Issue - Minisheet
Australia issues stamps for four of seven of its external territories:
the Australian Antarctic Territory, and the Indian Ocean territories,
Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island. Australia Post took
over the responsibilities for postal and philatelic services on Cocos
(Keeling) Islands from 1 January 1994, on Christmas Island from
4 March 1993 and in the AAT from 27 March 1957.
Norfolk Island, although also an external territory of Australia, has
its own postal administration and has issued its own stamps since 1947. Norfolk Island stamps are valid for postage on Norfolk Island only. This stamp issue is a joint issue between the Australian and Norfolk Island postal administrations, and includes stamps from Australia, Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the Australian Antarctic Territory. ... copyright notice: This material has been reproduced with permission of the Australian Postal Corporation. The original work is held in the National Philatelic Collection. |
| Australia: 15/2009
Tuesday, 04 August 2009 Joint Issue
Species at Risk - Joint Territories Issue
Australia issues stamps for four of seven of its external territories:
the Australian Antarctic Territory, and the Indian Ocean territories,
Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island. Australia Post took
over the responsibilities for postal and philatelic services on Cocos
(Keeling) Islands from 1 January 1994, on Christmas Island from
4 March 1993 and in the AAT from 27 March 1957.
Norfolk Island, although also an external territory of Australia, has
its own postal administration and has issued its own stamps since 1947. Norfolk Island stamps are valid for postage on Norfolk Island only. This stamp issue is a joint issue between the Australian and Norfolk Island postal administrations, and includes stamps from Australia, Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the Australian Antarctic Territory. ... copyright notice: This material has been reproduced with permission of the Australian Postal Corporation. The original work is held in the National Philatelic Collection. |
| Australia: 16/2009
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 Commemorative Issue
Corrugated Landscapes
Flexible, lightweight, cheap and reusable, corrugated iron is a familiar material in the Australian landscape. It features in the sheds, fences and water tanks that populate our country and suburban environments. We have come to identify it as our own, to the extent that it was a star character in the "Tin Symphony" at the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games.
Corrugated iron - which despite its name is now always made of steel - is metal crimped so as to greatly increase its strength. A product of industrial and imperial Britain, where it was invented and patented in 1829, it was exported to Australia from 1850 on.
As a result of the demands of the gold rush, by 1880 Australia had become Britain's biggest customer.
... copyright notice: This material has been reproduced with permission of the Australian Postal Corporation. The original work is held in the National Philatelic Collection. |
| Australia: 17/2009
Tuesday, 25 August 2009 Miniature Sheet
Stargazing: The Southern Skies - Minisheet
This stamp issue is being released during the International Year of Astronomy. It highlights the beauty of astronomical objects revealed through the art of astrophotography, and it celebrates a science that has had an enormous impact on culture and society worldwide.
The miniature sheet conceptually anchors the three stamps.
It shows the dome of the Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding
Spring, NSW, backed by star trails around the south celestial pole.
The two galaxy images in the stamp designs were taken from this telescope, while the nebula image was taken from a backyard observatory in Yass. copyright notice: This material has been reproduced with permission of the Australian Postal Corporation. The original work is held in the National Philatelic Collection. |
| Australia: 17/2009
Tuesday, 25 August 2009 Commemorative Issue
Stargazing: The Southern Skies
This stamp issue is being released during the International Year of Astronomy. It highlights the beauty of astronomical objects revealed through the art of astrophotography, and it celebrates a science that has had an enormous impact on culture and society worldwide. copyright notice: This material has been reproduced with permission of the Australian Postal Corporation. The original work is held in the National Philatelic Collection. |
 | Cyprus: 8/2009
Thursday, 10 September 2009 Commemorative Issue
Domestic Fowl of Cyprus
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| Cyprus: 9/2009
Thursday, 10 September 2009 Commemorative Issue
Cyprus through the Ages 2009
This will be the third issue in this series that will culminate in 2010 with Cyprus' 50th Anniversary of Independence. |
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