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JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2015 Issue # 425 The Birth of the EUROPA 2015 Council of Europe New Issues with Old Toys Page 7 Scott Catalog #s Page 2 Page 14 AUCTION #130 Insert We need your dues So we can bring you the News! Please send your dues to Tonny ‘Cause we really need your money. JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2015 425-2 v = value(s) New Issues ms= mini-sheet ss = souvenir sheet Europa 2015 Old Toys BELGIUM 2v in a ss DENMARK 2v self ICELAND 2v self adhesive Issue date 13 April 2015 adhesive Issue date 30 April 2015 Issue date 2 January 2015 ALAND 1v Issue date 8 May 2015 FAROE ISLANDS 2v Issue date 24 April FINLAND 2v self adhesive, issued se-tenant 2015 in a mini-sheet of 10 Issue date 4 May 2015 RUSSIA 1v Issue date 16 January 2015 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2015 425-3 v = value(s) ms= mini-sheet New Issues ss = souvenir sheet Europa 2013—The Postal Van sepac 2015 CULTURE GEORGIA ss + 2v Issue date 22 December 2014 This is not a typo. Georgia’s entry for 2013 is being issued just as other nations are rolling out their designs for 2015! The stamps in the souvenir sheet were also issued singly in sheets of 10 stamps each. ICELAND 1v Issue date 19 February 2015 ALAND 1v NORDIA 2014 Issue date 10 April 2015 “Midwinter Only” NORWAY ss Issue date 21 November 2014 NORDIA 2014, the Nordic stamp exhibition, was held at Norway Trade Fairs in Lillestrøm on 21–23 November. The Nordia stamp exhibition rotates among the Nordic countries, and Norway last hosted the exhibition in Sta- vanger in 2008. Norway Post issued a miniature sheet for the exhibition, with three stamps commemorating Stavanger as a European Capital of Culture for that year. The motifs on the miniature sheet also commemorate the Norwegian Constitution Bicentenary. — from Norway Post FAROE ISLANDS 1v from a set of two publicizing the new terminal at Vargar airport. The 8,50 DKK value pictures an Airbus A319. Issue date 23 February 2015 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2015 425-4 New Issues Green Capital SERBIA 2v showing ECY logo SERBIA 1v Issue date 22 May 2014 Issue date 2 September 2014 European Nature Conservation Joy of Europe ESTONIA 1v From the website of the European Commission: Issue date 2 October 2014 Euro coins Today more than two thirds of Euro- peans live in towns and cities. Urban areas concentrate most of the envi- ronmental challenges facing our society but also bring together com- mitment and innovation to resolve The Institute for Nature Conservation them. The European Green Capital of Serbia nominated natural re- Award has been conceived to pro- On 1 January 2011 the euro was sources Nature Park “Stara Planina” mote and reward these efforts. taken into use in Estonia and the and landscape Zaovine for the postage stamp issued to mark the The European Green Capital Award World Network of Biosphere Re- event was in the euro denomination is the result of an initiative taken by serves under the UNESCO program of €1. 15 European cities (Tallinn, Helsinki, “Man and Biosphere” (MAB), due to Riga, Vilnius, Berlin, Warsaw, Madrid, This postage stamp has the same their natural resources. Ljubljana, Prague, Vienna, Kiel, design but is in a different color. —- from the Serbia Post website Kotka, Dartford, Tartu & Glasgow) Starting from 1 September 2014 the Note: the logo on the stamps is from and the Association of Estonian cit- rate of the regular letter up to 50 the Centre Naturopa of the Council ies on 15 May 2006 in Tallinn, Esto- grams in the 1st zone is €1.20. of Europe and was used for European nia. —- from the EESTI POST website Conservation Year (ECY) in 1970. Their green vision was translated into a joint Memorandum of Under- BELARUS ss Issue date 15 November 2014 standing establishing an award to 20th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between the recognize cities that are leading the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Serbia way with environmentally friendly urban living. The initiative was launched by the European Commis- sion in 2008, and given to the fol- lowing cities: 2010: Stockholm, Sweden 2011: Hamburg, Germany 2012: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain 2013: Nantes, France 2014: Copenhagen, Denmark 2015: Bristol, England No philatelic recognition as yet. ■ JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2015 425-5 Europa Briefs FWIW (For What It’s Worth) I7.09.1961 found that CTO versions could There are Still Bargains Out There: Dept. nowOffenbach be had (Frankfurt for about-Main)50 $20 total. (pf) Pictured below is an eBay lot which The Euro2012 football (aka soccer) NowGreen you’re on Yellow talking! All I had to do your editor snarfed up for $43.50 tournament was hosted by Poland (!)Inscribed was open “Europa an account-Union” soin thatlarge I plus 99c shipping. Not bad for an and Ukraine.. The latter issued many couldletters order. at bottom, “Versuchs Rakete” item that most dealers are asking in small letters above that, and on upwards of $110 for. stamps to publicize the event, in- Fortunately, there was just enough the left side inscription (which are in cluding two very limited issue sou- English on the site for me to figure unusually tiny letters and need a venir sheets—30,000 each. As could it out. The upshot is that, even after magnifier to be read) “Erste Ver- be expected, they were expensive shipping and handling and registra- suchs Rakete Postflug” which trans- and I am told that Michel now lists tion, the two items came in at under lates loosely to “First Trial of Rocket them at just under $200 apiece. $30 and were shipped to me with- Mail Flight”. And “Offenbach (Main) Scott merely mentions them. out incident. I’m a happy camper, – Frankfurt (Main)” on the right side. and am once again amazed at what canThe bestamp done exists electronically both perf andin thisim- dayperf and and age. also ■ in horizontal tete- beche pairs, also both perf and im- The item is a deluxe color proof of Whatperf. Is It? Dept.: the Belgium 1964 Europa stamps. Belgium issues a limited number of such proofs each year, and they are The green color varies in different listed in the 2001 Domfil catalog at shades from light to dark and the $126 for the early issues. Good printing is quite crude when com- deals await for those who are pa- pared to later issue standards. tient. A special circular “postmark” was also prepared, repeating the in- New Michel catalog scriptions on the stamp “Europa- Michel updates their CEPT-Europa Union” at the bottom, “Offenbach- catalog every year. The 2015 edition Frankfurt” at the top and pictured below is available direct “Raketenflug /Versuchsrakete“ in from Michel at a list price of 54,00 € the middle along with a central date of 17.9.61. I started watching prices on eBay and delcampe, only to find prices in the $50 range for each. Not bad The above came in an email with compared to Michel’s valuation but the inscription still pricey. In a previous column Prettige Feestdagen en een ge- (EN# 417-13) I mentioned that lukkig maar vooral gezond 2015 Ukraine Post had dropped their Google Translate to the rescue! The online price to under $50 for the message was pair. Nice, but still up there. Merry Christmas and a happy and In early November, along comes an especially healthy 2015 Their website is at www.briefmarken.de/michelshop/ item in the Wall Street Journal that It was signed Lucie en Hai Webers. mentions how the exchange rate for de/kataloge/europa/cept-katalog- Ukrainian currency is falling in re- To all our members, we wish the 2015. sponse to the recent unrest. On a same for 2015. Be sure to see Hai’s There are also plenty of sellers on whim, I went looking at the Ukraine article beginning on the next page! eBay and delcampe, but none I saw Post website again. are offering discounts. ■ JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2015 425-6 2015 European Year for Development The European Parliament has voted to establish 2015 as the European Year for Development (EYD2015) with the motto "our world, our dig- nity, our future". This provides a nice segue from the EuropAfrique discussion of previous EN issues. There will hopefully be some phila- telic recognition of this ground- breaking initiative. The following is excerpted from the EU’s website: This decision marks the first time that a European Year has been ded- icated to external EU policy, and comes as the millennium develop- The European Parliament votes in favor of 2015 as the ment goals draw to an end and de- Year of Development Cooperation cisions on a post-2015 international The agreement we have reached “Our renewed commitment is both framework must be taken. with the council and the commis- timely and significant in light of the ALDE Party Deputy Charles Goerens, sion,” he continued, “means that for recent EU-Africa summit., and un- Parliament's rapporteur on the year, the first time a European year is derscores the EU's determination to explained, "There can be no ques- designated to an external policy, to eradicate poverty.” tion of ignoring the more than 100 a concern of global scope.” European Commission webpage: million poor people in EU countries EU foreign affairs chief Catherine http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/european- or of pitting them against the poor Ashton and European parliament year-development-2015_en and destitute elsewhere. What we president Martin Schulz issued a would like the core message of this Latvia’s webpage.