#Christmas stamps
Swiss Post Christmas 2008 Stamps
This year, Swiss Post is once again bringing out a range of seasonal stamps for Christmas mailings. It is launching a new stamp series complete with Christmas motifs in time for Advent, giving your letters and parcels a festive feel. The motifs for this year's stamps are a bauble, a star and a bell. For special effect, each stamp has been printed with a small, silver star which sparkles in the lig
Gibraltar Christmas stamps
This year's Gibraltar Christmas stamps celebrate the wonderful carols sung by our children before and during Christmas both at school and at home. Issue date: 11.11.08
New Christmas stamp from Aland
This year's Christmas stamp motif is that of an angel, to many people the symbol of Christmas. The artist, Eva-Jo Hancock first created an angel from textile, paper and other materials before photographing the merry angel which now appears on the stamp. The angel holds a heart in her hand, and the snowflakes as well as the Earth beneath are issued with glittering holograms. The denomination of the
Ireland: Christmas stamps 2007
On 8 November An Post issued three stamps to celebrate Christmas 2007. This year's stamps were illustrated in acrylics with typography and layout by Steve Simpson. The three stamps feature traditional images associated with Christmas and depict the Adoration of the Shepherds (55c self-adhesive), the Presentation in the Temple (55c gummed) and the Visit of the Magi (78c gummed).
Gibraltar: Christmas stamps
The Christmas 2007 stamps have been designed using specially created photographs of beautiful porcelain figurines of the Nativity. The stamps have been immaculately and carefully printed using the latest technologies and include a double coat of varnish over all the surfaces to recall the look and feel of porcelain. The reverse side of the stamps (gum side) includes biblical quotes relating to eac
Austria: Christmas 2007 Stamp
The 65 cent stamp shows the birth of Christ depicted on an icon from the Church of St. Barbara in Vienna's 1st District. Once the chapel of a Jesuit college, the church was transferred to the Greek-Catholic community in 1775 and is today a part of the complex of buildings that includes the Austrian Post Office headquarters. Release Date: 9 November 2007
Austria: Christmas 2006
The subject of the first 2006 Christmas stamp – the Holy Family at Rest – is a frequent subject by the artist Franz Weiss, born in Sodingberg near Voitsberg in 1921. His mother communicated to him a Christian world view that has accompanied and characterised his whole life. Religiosity is not just a private matter for him – as a mural painter, as he calls himself, he has created more then 490 work
Hungary: Christmas 2006
It is now traditional for Magyar Posta to greet the Christmas holiday with the issue of a stamp. Date of issue: 27 October 2006Nominal value: HUF 52Perforation size: 40 x 30 mmPrinting press: Penzjegynyomda Photo artist: Janos Huschit Graphic designer: Gyorgy Kara
South Africa: Jungle Bells!
The Post Office's Christmas stamps for 2006 may finally put an end to accusations that Christmas is treated as Eurocentric. Labelled 'Jungle Bells' and designed by Dr Jack, the stamps feature a springbok, warthog, zebra and hippopotamus drawing Father Christmas' 'sleigh'. Father Christmas is none other than King Lion.
New issue from New Zealand
Christmas has always been an especially magical experience for children
