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Postage Due Stamps – Guernsey 1982.
Postage due is a term used for mail sent with insufficient postage. Postage Due stamp is a stamp added to an underpaid piece of mail to indicate the extra postage due.
Guernsey issued a set of 12 Postage Due stamps on 13 Jul 1982. It features Local Motifs.
5 P – Woman. 16 P- Agriculture, Woman, Cattle.
18 P- Towers 20 P – Castles
India-Republic of Korea Joint Issue -Queen Heo Hwang-ok -2019
India issued a miniature sheet with two stamps on the theme India -Republic of Korea Joint Issue. It features Queen Hur Hwang -ok. It was issued on 30 Jul 2019. Two stamps of rupees Five and Rs 25 were issued. 500,000 stamps of each denomination and 110,000 miniature sheets have been printed.
Stamps on Youth Comics – Spain 2004.
Under the School Letter Writing Programme stamps on Youth Comics were issued by Spain on 10 Feb 2004. Stamps and Vignettes were based on illustrations from the Youth Comic “Trazo a Tiza” by Miguelanxo Prado.
0.27 euro – Woman on edge of Sea. 0.27 euro – Woman and Lighthouse
Vignettes on Months of October and December
Woman & Flowers Paintings on Stamps – Spain 2003
Works by Painter Alfredo Roldan from the series “Woman & Flowers ” was the theme of No ValueIndicator stamps of Spain issued on 28 Jul 2003.
Woman in Dark dress Putting Flower in Hair- Painting by Alfredo Roldan.
Woman with arms crossed -Painting by Alfredo Roldan
Woman and Flowers – Painting by Alfredo Roldan
12th Aero India International Show – Miniature Sheet India 2019
India issued a Miniature Sheet on 23 Feb 2019 to mark the 12th Aero India International Show which was held in Bengaluru from 20 to 24 Feb 2019. It marked celebrating women in Aviation.
Paintings by Rogier van der Weyden or Roger De La Pasture – Belgium 1964
Belgium issued a miniature sheet featuring paintings by Rogier van der Weyden or Roger de La Pasture (1399-1464). The miniature sheet was issued on 19 Sep 1964 to mark his 500th Death Anniversary. He was born in Tournai in Present-day Belgium and settled in Brussels. His works consisted of religious triptychs (work of art divided into three panels)He held the title of Painter to the town of Brussels from 1436 onwards.
The paintings featured on the stamps are
1F – Portrait of Phillip The Good, Duke of Burgundy wearing the Order of Star
2F – Portrait of A Lady (1460).
3F – Portrait of Antoine de Bourgogne (1449)
Europa Stamps on Circus – Estonia 2002
The theme for EUROPA 2002 was Circus. 58 participating countries issued stamps on this common theme. Estonia issued a stamp on the theme of Circus. The stamp was issued on 09 May 2002 and featured Circus artists. The stamp was designed by Riho Lusse with a print run of 256,000 in sheets of 8.
