Thursday, October 12

Best sepac stamp 2017

Europe

As the Sepac is announcing the start for the vote of the most beautiful 2018 SEPAC stamp, we can assume when looking at last year's contest webpage, that the Isle of Man won the most beautiful 2017 SEPAC stamp contest !

The Isle of Man wins for the first time this contest.

According to the contest page on the offical Sepac website :

Isle of Man wins with 1156 votes
Iceland is second with 564 votes
Liechtenstein is third with 293 votes




Guernsey won in 2016, Åland won once in 2014, Greenland won once in 2013 and the Faroe Islands won the first two contests, in 2007-09 and in 2011. and in 2015.

Sunday, October 8

Georgia 2017

Georgia

Date of Issue: 5th of October 2017

two stamps (2x 2.50 GEL) and one souvenir-sheet of 2 stamps (2x 2.50 GEL)


Friday, September 29

Best Europa stamp 2017 - Public prize

Turkey

Turkey is the winner of the 2017 Best Europa stamp contest organised by PostEurop. Poland finished second and Moldova is third.
  1. TURKEY
  2. POLAND
  3. MOLDOVA



this 3.70 TRY stamp is part of a two stamp set.

It's the fourth time Turkey wins the on line voting and since 2011 they always finished in the top 2 ! They won in 2011, 2013 and 2015 and finished 2nd in 2012 and 2014 !

The Best Europa stamp design competition is a yearly event. The first competition took place in 2002. All official Europa stamp issues can enter the competition.

The result of this competition was announced during this PostEurop's Plenary Assembly held this month in Bucharest, Romania.

The stamp has been selected via the internet ! All people could vote through PostEurop's website !

A jury of 7 members (stamp designers, philatelic design directors, stamp collectors) awarded earlier this year, the Best Europa stamp - Jury prize to Finland !


Here you can find the full list of winning stamps since the first contest in 2002 when Malta won.


Monday, September 18

Best Europa stamp 2017 - Jury prize

Finland

The 2017 Best Europa stamp - Jury prize was awarded this week-end in Brussels’ town hall.

This was the sixth edition of this neutral and artistic prize.

Eight experts of the philatelic world were invited to join the jury and judge the Europa stamps based on their expert opinion.

This year's winner is Finland with the following stamp :




2nd (tied) – Åland & Italy (1.- € value)

3rd - Liechtenstein (1.50 CHF Vaduz castle)

This year's Jury was composed of this year as follow (from the left to the right) :


• Antonio Manuel Amaral, PostEurop's coordinator (not part of the jury)
• Eric Contesse, Philatelist expert, timbredujura.blogspot.com, France
• Arie Piet, Enschedé Printing, the Netherlands
• Botond Szebeny, PostEurop's Secretary General, Hungary
• Guy Coutant, Pro Post, Belgium
• Olaf Neumann, Designer, Germany
• Stefan Klein, Designer, Germany
• Andrée Trommer, General secretary of the Fédération internationale de philatélie (FIP), Luxembourg

Thursday, September 14

Sepac folder 2017

Europe - Sepac

"Local handcrafts of Europe 8", this special folder contains the 12 Sepac stamps issued in 2017.


This folder will be on sale by any of the Sepac countries philatelic offices !

Monday, September 4

Kazakhstan 2017

Kazakhstan

Date of Issue: 31st August 2017

one stamp (750.- KZT)


This stamp is issued in a mini-sheet of 6 stamps

Friday, August 25

Isle of Man - Sepac 2017

Isle of Man - Sepac

Date of Issue: 13th September 2017

one stamp (0.80 GBP) out of a set of 6 stamps (only this stamp bears the Sepac logo)


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