Recent Post (15 September 2011)

Austria, Belgium (a), Cambodia, Ceska Rep, Finland, France (a,b,c), Great Britain, Hong Kong (b), India (b), Korea (South), Marocco, Russia, Spain (a), Taiwan (a),



Expecting (On the way):

Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Italy, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal , New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Roumania, Spain, SriLanka, Timor-Leste, Tunisia.....and alot more!



Needed badly:

If your country is not shown in this collection, please contact me, and I will be very glad to add your entry, and in return I can send you any philatelic material from Singapore & the region, and I can create a nice covers or post-cards on your theme! Act now! and email me at: johnlowis@singnet.com.sg

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Andorra

One of the French colony still using the old label.

Argentina *

Australia


Australia Antarctic




Austria



Bangladesh গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ

Belarus Беларусь

Latest design with larger format.

Belgium

Mair Catalogue: BEL-A-15 Light Blue (approx.1965)

Issued: August 1996 (Pale Blue)

Bosnia & Herzegovina (Република Српска)

Bulgaria България (2)

Mair catalogue: BUL-A-9e (circa 1970) - various blue.

Label depicting Bulgaria'89 Int'l Stamp Exhibition logo.
Mair catalogue: BUL-C-1a (1989) - perforated

Canada

Mair Cataloque: CAN-A-35b Dark Blue (1974)

Chile




China 中国

Mair Catalogue: CPR-A-10a (1962)




Similar to the above design but with condensed typeface.

Croatia

Cyprus Κυπριακή

The above label is identical to the British design.

The Czech Republic 2

Ecuador



Estonia 1


Fiji


Finland

This label is printed with "First Klass" message.

France 5








Globe with five wings and four sides perforated.
Mair catalogue: FRA-A-17 (1960)


Globe with four wings.


Mair catalogue: FRA-A-18a (1961)


Globe with five wings with the modified globe.
Mair catalogue: FRA-A-20 (1962)

Printed on cellophane sticker.

Similar to the above design but in different typefaces.
This size of label, probably meant for the larger items such as parcel.





This label is printed on a cellophane type sticker.



Currently used label.

Germany



Great Britain

Old standard design had been used by all
British Commonwealth colonies












Identical to the above design, but with rounded corners san-seriff typface.










Hong Kong 香港 (2)

This old label using the standard British design with additional
Chinese characters on both side of the wing.

Mair catalogue: HKG-A-8 (1970)

This label is currently in use, printed on matte finished surface.
Mair catalogue: HKG-A-10b (2001)

Iceland (2)

Old label with aeroplane pictogram.

Mair catalogue: ICL-A-6 (1976)

Currently used label.

India भारत गणराज्य






Mair catalogue: IND-A-9a (1952) printed in various blue.




Has India gone back to the old design? Recently I received this postcard
attached with Airmail label with gloss surface finished, and the design is
similar to the India's first Airmail label used in 1930s.


Indonesia *

Mair catalogue: IDO-A-5a (1978)

Iran جمهوری اسلامی ایران

Mair catalogue: IRN-A-5a (1937)

Ireland

Label printed in Prussian Blue.


Similar to the above design but printed in navy blue.


Israel מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל



Mair catalogue: ISR-A-4 (1988) pale blue.


Similar to the above design, but with serial code at bottom.




New design (estm.2009) with the abstract running deer.

Japan 日本

Mair catalogue: JPN-A-9b (1980) printed in variety of blue.

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