My Stamp Stuff

The Europa 2025 theme was "National Archaeological Discoveries" and the stamp issued by Post NL for the Netherlands features the Fibula of Dorestad. The guilded broach was found inside a well in 1969 in the town of Wijk bij Duurstede. It was likely hidden there during Viking raids of 850AD in what was then the trading post of Dorestad.

From the British Antarctic Survey 's King Edward Point research station on the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic. The stamps, showing a snow petrel and Cook Island, were from a 2021 set of six showing landscapes and fauna from the South Sandwich Islands. It was the first in an annual series of four. The South Sandwich Islands are a chain of 11 volcanic islands 700km ...

The 2025 stamp on the right commemorates the 50th anniversary of Gardaland: the 8th most visited theme park in Europe. It's in Castelnuovo del Garda, not too far from Verona. And the 2025 stamp on the left commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Fiamme Gialle Ski Club. This is the ski club of the Italian Financial Police.

Definitives on this one from Riva San Vitale in Switzerland. The stamp on the right is from a 2023 set of eight stamps showing river landscapes found in Switzerland. On this stamp is the Kleine Emme river near Lucerne. Beside that is a 1982 definitive depicting the Zodiac sign Aquarius and Bern's Old Town. And on the left is a 2022 coin definitive with a 10 centime coin on it.