My checklist of stamps related to H.C. Andersen has been updated, and includes now *authentic* postage stamps from 37 different countries, all together 146 different stamps, a number of souvenir sheets, and other philatelic...

My old web site about Literature on Stamps has been more or less revived, and will slowly be incorporated into the relevant sections of Art History on Stamps. The latest addition is Dante (Gothic Art) http://arthistory.heindorffhus.dk/frame-LiteratureItalyDante.htm And so far these authors are...

In 1998 San Marino coined the term "FantaScienza", related to a sheet of stamps depicting Science Fiction movies. The first of these stamps shows Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea", and gave way to a new page in the Literature section of Art History on...

Collectors of Art Stamps have often discussed which was the first art topical stamp to be issued. Some say that this collecting area began with the French art series in the early 1960's, while others believe that it may be the French stamp from 1849 depicting Ceres, and yet others that it was the...

Can someone out there help me ID this artset from Poland, please http://queries.heindorffhus.dk/poland-artset-large.jpg (warning 298 kb) I have simply no clue, but I sense that it is somewhere in the '60s. Just can't find it. Thanks for any help. Regards Mette ------

For those of you who have no access to newsgroups through your regular provider, and dislike following newsgroup through Google, I found on another group the link to this newsreader http://www.mesnews.net/index-gb.php which is available in 8 languages. I have sent the link separately to...

The Dutch artist Harm Kamerlingh Onnes was not only a talented and prolific painter, he was also a gifted stamp designer who has designed several stamps for The Netherlands and The Netherlands Antilles. With the help of his family I have set up a small page illustrating the lengthy process of...

In September 2005 the Faeroese Post Office issued a very nice souvenir sheet with 9 different landscapes and seascapes by the Faeroese painter Jógvan Waagstein (1879-1949). Waagstein was inspired by the Nordic realist landscape painting and The Golden Era in Denmark, with occasional hints from the...

Although not directly connected with European art history, collectors of Russian art stamps have long asked me to make a general page about the painter Ilya Repin. I have finally been able to collect most of his paintings on stamps -- still need one -- but the page is now online, as far as I can...

A collector has sent me a scan of 6 Soviet stamps which he believes should be included in my page about Soviet stamps related to Lithuania http://shoebox.heindorffhus.dk/frame-LithuaniaSovietStamps.htm Here is the scan (514 kb) http://queries.heindorffhus.dk/Scannen0002.jpg I can agree on the...

This posting is addressed to the hundreds of art stamp collectors world wide, who are also my regular correspondents and lurkers on this group, and who might happen to be in or around London over the next couple of months. In today's London...

In a recent shoebox-lot I found this nice stationery http://queries.heindorffhus.dk/rodin-hungary1981-card-TheKiss-small.jpg depicting the sculpture by Auguste Rodin "The Kiss". On the prepaid stamp it is clearly stated 1981, but I cannot find it in Michel, so I wonder whether it was issued as...

Could someone please tell me where I find these listed in Scott? Thanks. Regards Mette

In a huge lot of stamps from Ex-Jugoslavia, containing art stamps, military post, Hitler Ovpts, various thematic stamps, and much more, I have found this stamp which I am unable to identify. It simply goes beyond my knowledge of Cyrillic characters and general philatelic knowledge ...

Prompted by Rodney's recent thread about this subject, I have set up a small page about this saint, which has become an interesting intertwine of postal administration, conchology and the official colours of the cardinals of the Roman Catholoc...

Denmark's oldest type of stamp, and the second oldest type of stamp in the world still in use, the Wavy Line, celebrates its 100th birthday this year. In 1902 the Danish Secretary for Public Works, Viggo Hørup, invited the Danes to participate in an open competition for the design of a new type...

A collector has advised me that official H.C. Andersen items have been issued from Guyana in 2005, but no further details are given, except for this description: - H.C. Andersen (The Emperors New Suit) - souvenirsheet - H.C. Andersen (The Travelling Companion) - sheetlet I have searched the WNS...

For those who are interested in modern arts and read French, here is an excellent link to coming Belgian art stamps http://www.post.be/site/en/postgroup/subsidiaries/philately/philanews/philanews_5_2005_fr.pdf (scroll down to pages 13-15) This is very contemporary art, and I would be "hanged" by...

A Rembrandt self-portrait stolen from a museum in Stockholm has been recovered in Denmark http://arts.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1048731.php/Rembrandt_self-portrait_recovered_in_Denmark The portrait has appeared on a stamp from Dahomey in...

For collectors of H.C. Andersen's fairy tales on stamps, the checklist has been updated with new issues from Kazakhstan, Micronesia, Montserrat, and Niue. They still keep dripping in ;-) http://hca.heindorffhus.dk/frame-AndersenChecklist.htm -- Best regards Ann Mette Heindorff...