#Austria stamps
Austria Post released EUROPA 2021 stamp featuring wolf!
Austria Post released a special EUROPA 2021 stamp on the theme “Endangered National Wildlife”. This special item is devoted to a wolf that has appeared on the territory of Austria only recently. This animal has been considered extinct in the country since 1882. However, in 2009 the first wolves started to re-migrate. Nowadays, around thirty wolves live in the country again. The majori
Austria Post honors Adriana Czernin with an artistic stamp!
Austria Post released an artistic stamp depicting one of the brightest works of a famous Austrian artist Adriana Czernin. She was born in 1969 in Sofia and now she lives and works in Vienna and Rettenegg. The focus of the artist’s masterpieces is original ornaments. The stamp is being issued as a part of the Postal Service’s “Young art in Austria” series. Adriana Czernin i
Austria Post devotes its Christmas 2020 stamp to Christmas star!
Austria Post has joined other Postal Services and released a special Christmas 2020 stamp that is devoted to Christmas star. The design of this special item will get you in the Christmas spirit: a Christmas star shining above an idyllic mountain village. Hoping to create a traditional Christmas atmosphere, Roland Vorlaufer designed this great issue. For his work he used classic ink and gouache on
Austria Post honors Emperor Maximilian I with a special stamp!
Emperor Maximilian I, also known to many as the “last knight”, was one of the most important monarchs of Austria. He paved the way for the dynasty to become a world power. To commemorate the 500th anniversary of his death, Austrian Post issued a commemorative stamp decorated with gold embossing. The item shows a portrait of Maximilian with a lance and his coat of arms held by a crowned
Wild boar – a special stamp introduced by Austria Post
Austria Post has introduced to collectors’ attention a special stamp within “Wild animals and hunting” series that feature a wild boar. The wild boar (Sus scrofa) belongs to the true pig family. It is also the ancestor of our domestic pig, but, unlike the latter, has a dark bristly coat. This animal is native to Europe, Asia and North America, but nowadays it also abides in other
Austria Post honors Michelangelo Merisi with a stamp
Austria Post has presented to collectors’ attention a special engraved stamp from the “Old masters” series that shows a painting by the early Baroque Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi, also known as Caravaggio. The painting selected for this philatelic item is “David with the Head of Goliath” that depicts a famous scene from the bible story of David and Goliath. The
Austria Post celebrates the opening of House of Austrian History with a stamp
On 10th November 2018, on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the democratic republic of Austria, the House of Austrian History opened in the Hofburg in Vienna’s Heldenplatz. Austrian Post is congratulating it with a commemorative stamp. The item was designed by Marion Füllerer, who used the photo of the cloud taken by Thomas Albdorf. Let’s take a closer look at this original
Swarovski crystals appeared on a new festive stamp. Glittering Christmas issue introduced by Austria Post
FindYourStampsValue.com is glad to let our readers know that Austria Post has released an original Christmas stamp depicting traditional decorations that are adorned with Swarowski crystals. Bright stars and snowflakes, with their delicate shapes, are among the most popular symbols of winter and the feast of Christmas, and the ones on this Christmas stamp are particularly fine, decorated with a ge
The carnival in Villach as one of the most famous festivals of Austria. One special stamp marks the 150th anniversary of a great event
The carnival in Villach is one of the most famous and most remarkable festivals of the town. On Saturday before Shrove Tuesday the whole city is packed with people when Prince Fidelius moves with the Villach Carnival Guild in a triumphal procession of cheerfulness through Villach. Everywhere you hear the Villach carnival greeting “Lei, Lei!”. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of this great eve
A classic Christmas bauble with meaning. One new festive stamp released by Austrian Post
FindYourStampsValue.com is glad to inform our readers that Austrian Post has introduced to collectors' attention a special Christmas stamp. It is a graphically reduced, pictogram style presentation, which uses a clear language of imagery to fill the shape of a classic Christmas bauble with meaning: the memories, wishes and traditions that we associate with Christmas. A particularly eye-catching f
