#Sweden stamps
EUROPA 2013 – Mail en route stamps from Sweden
The motif for this year's EUROPA stamps is environmentally friendly postal vehicles - the bicycle and the electrical car. Sweden Post aims to be the environmental choice for its customers, and its environmental work is based on the belief that every liter of fuel and kilowatt hour we save also saves the Earth’s resources. So does FindYourStampsValue.com fully share this notion.
Sweden Post starts annual charity stamp series
Sweden Post has recently started its new annual charity stamp series. Save the Children, which is the first beneficiary, will receive its donation in January 2012. Funds raised from the sale of the stamps will be used to help children in conflict- and catastrophe-stricken countries to read and write. "We think it is wonderful that Sweden Post has decided to issue this kind of stamp. The idea that
Swedish Waterlilies on Stamps
Four waterlily motifs designed by Inga-Karin Eriksson are found on this year's summer stamps for greetings sent from Sweden to other countries. The waterlily is a perennial water plant and Sweden is home to yellow and white waterlilies as well as the rare red waterlily, which is a variation of the white waterlily. A long time ago the waterlily was linked to the evil spirit of the water, Nacken, an
Delicious postage stamps from Sweden
Sweet, salty, sour, hard and soft. The delicious delicacies depicted by Stina Wirsen with her elegant style and confident pen come from different areas of Sweden. The marinated salmon, peppermint sticks, pyramid cake and fermented herring motifs in the booklet were designed by Wirsen and the coil stamps depicting crispbread/Vasterbotten cheese and waffles/cloudberries were designed by Martin Morck
Crime novel stamps by Sweden
A booklet of five stamps with a denomination of SEK 6 celebrates some of Sweden's most successful authors, both in Sweden and internationally, in the modern detective and crime genre. One of the stamps shows pioneers Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo, who wrote the Chief Inspector Martin Beck series. The other stamps show four other authors who are all part of Sweden's fine crime-writing tradition. The sta
Swedish Comic Strips
Stamps with the theme Swedish Comic Strips are being issued for National Stamp Day. Comic strips are a recurring motif and this time characters from the 1980s and their successors are in the spotlight. Day of issue: 25 September 2008
Summer Tables
The official start of the Swedish summer is Midsummer at the end of June, when the days are at their longest. This is also when many people begin their summer vacation. The food on the Midsummer table, or picnic blanket if the weather's good, is also an expression of the light, fresh atmosphere of summer. These stamps were designed by Inga-Karin Eriksson. Norbert Tamas designed the first day cover
Sweden's 'Punctuation' Stamps
Europa stamps are issued once a year with a common theme. This year the theme is Letters. A group of students at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design were given the challenge of designing drafts for the Swedish stamps as a part of their coursework. Pontus Bjorlin won with his punctuation marks, the comma and the semicolon. Issue date: 27 March 2008
Sweden, Germany commemorate Astrid Lindgren with stamp
Sweden and Germany will honor children's book author Astrid Lindgren with commemorative stamps to mark the centennial of her birth. The stamps will show Lindgren, who died in 2002 at age 94, flanked by one of her most well-known characters, the mischievous farmer boy Emil. Lindgren, born in Sweden in 1907, captivated generations of children around the world with colorful characters including the f
Sweden: Mythical Forest Beings
Mythical Forest Beings is the second issue in the Nordic Top of the World collaboration. Eight Nordic postal organizations are all issuing a series of stamps in three parts on the theme of Nordic Mythology. The 2006 Swedish issue focuses on mythical beings in folklore - such as the Siren of the Woods and Necken. From the front, the Siren of the Woods (Skogsraet) is a beautiful woman, but she lures
