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New Issue: Mountain World (Liechtenstein)
Here is a reasonably new issue from Liechtenstein, showing Bergwelt Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein's Mountain World). I meant to review it a couple of weeks ago but there's been a lot happening at school. There are four stamps in the set and they show some of Liechtenstein's mountains. Liechtenstein is quite a small country but is is a very mountainous one! The stamps show very simple coloured silhouettes of the mountains but the miniature sheet shows a more realistic map and

Xanthe Page
6 days ago


New Issue: Saba Butterflies (Caribbean Netherlands)
A few months ago the Netherlands issued a new set of stamps about the butterflies of Saba. I reviewed them here. They are part of a four-part series looking at Saba wildlife. The Caribbean Netherlands have now also issued a set of ten stamps showing Saba's butterflies. However they are very different. There are also ten stamps, like the Netherlands issue, but they show different butterflies and the background is a coloured design based around circles instead of natural habit

Heidi Page
Jun 4


New Issue: Iconic Landscapes (Greenland)
I have already reviewed Guernsey's SEPAC architecture issue, which shows the Victoria Tower. SEPAC includes the Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guernsey, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, the Vatican and Ă…land. Every year they issue stamps on a theme and this year the theme is iconic landscapes. Well, here is a very different stamp from Greenland. Guernsey decided to celebrate a historic building within the landscape but Greenland

Xanthe Page
May 29
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