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After independence, Iceland pursued a relatively restrained stamp-issuing policy, bringing out about 20 new stamps each year. There were annual Christmas and Europa issues, and sets depicting local scenery, flora, and fauna, as well as heritage and the works of local artists. Iceland Post announced in 2020 that it would cease issuing stamps. [4]
Two years later, regular postal sailings began between Iceland and Denmark, once a year. The first Icelandic postage stamps were published in 1873, and at the same time, the Icelandic postal system was being organised under a special board and the first post offices being established. [ 1 ]
1959 Jón Þorkelsson Bicentenary of his death (2 stamps issued 5 May 1959) [4] 1961 Benedikt Sveinsson and Björn M. Ólsen, to celebrate the University of Iceland (3 stamps issued 6th Oct) 1961 Jón Sigurðsson 150th anniversary of his birth. [2] 1963 Sigurður Guðmundsson to celebrate the National Museum (2 stamps issued 20th Feb. 1963)
The first Mauritius edition was printed with 500 red and 500 blue stamps, each worth one penny. ... block of Inverted Jennys of "Brewster's Millions" fame. For a few years during the 1860s, stamps ...
Only one copy is known to exist, discovered by a 12-year-old Scottish boy in 1873. It sold for a mind-boggling $9.5 million in 2014. In hopes of deterring counterfeits, the stamp carries the ...
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In 1929 the issue of postage stamps celebrating the millennium of Iceland's parliament, the Althing, was compromised by the insertion of "1" on the print order, before the authorized value of stamps to be produced (see Postage stamps and postal history of Iceland).
The Scandinavia Philatelic Society was founded in the United Kingdom in 1952 as the Scandinavian Collectors Club, to promote the collection of Stamps, Postcards and Postal History of greater Scandinavia. That is Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Danish West Indies, Åland and Spitsbergen.