Category: 1. Stamp News

1. CYPRUS STAMPS 31 October 2024 - 3 NEW Stamps Issues IN STOCK Today! And, an apology for the listing mistake...

   Posted on 12:00pm Thursday 31st Oct 2024

   CYPRUS STAMPS - 9 October 2024
   

   NOTE - these are THREE individual stamp issues and will be listed separately.
   "60 Years of Social Insurance". A single stamp.
   "800 Years since the awarding of Commandaria". One miniature sheet.
   “150 years Anniversary of the Universal Postal Union (UPU)". A single stamp.
   
   Each issue will be available in MINT, CTO/USED and on Post Official Official FDC.
   The Social Insurance and UPU stamp issues will also be available in sheets of 8 stamps.

   FIND THEM NOW in the NEW Stamp Issue shop category.

   Details for the 3 separate issues:

   g) "60 Years of Social Insurance". A single stamp.
   
   

   Article 9 of the Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus provides that every citizen has the right to "social security and a decent existence". This provision was set into practice with the pension reform 1964 which rendered the social insurance system universal for all workers in the country.

   Available as a single stamp: MINT, CTO/USED, Post Office Official FDC and in sheets of 8 stamps.

   Design/Artwork: Theodoros Kakoullis, Lefkosia

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   h) "800 Years since the awarding of Commandaria". One miniature sheet.

   Commandaria is a treasure of the Cypriot land, the first and only Cypriot wine with a Protected Designation of Origin, considered to be one of the oldest in the world. A wine with long history and tradition, which this year completes 800 years since its great award event, with the first prize in the International Wine Competition "La Bataille des Vins", held in 1224, under the high patronage of King Philippe of France.

   Available as a single miniature sheet: MINT, CTO/USED and on Post Office Official FDC.

   Design/Artwork: Theodoros Kakoullis, Lefkosia

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   i) “150 years Anniversary of the Universal Postal Union (UPU)". A single stamp. 

   Note and an apology: the MINT version Control Numbers for this issue appears at the top of the NEW Stamp Issue shop category - completely out of order.
   
   Please scroll down the page to find the particular type/format you are looking for - or; you can click through the Control Number stamp which will provide links below the listing to each of the different types/formats (MINT, FDC etc).

   In 2024 the Universal Postal Union (UPU) celebrates 150 years of life. It was founded in 1874 and is based in Bern, Switzerland. It's the second oldest international organisation with 192 member countries.

   Available as a single stamp: MINT, CTO/USED, Post Office Official FDC and in sheets of 8 stamps.

   Design/Artwork: Xenia Chrystodoulou, Lemesos

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2. 24 October 2024 NEW IN STOCK: North Cyprus Stamps 'Fight against Pine Processionary Insects".

   Posted on 4:00pm Thursday 24th Oct 2024

   NEW IN STOCK TODAY!

   g) North Cyprus Stamps SG 2024 "Fight against Pine Processionary Insects".
   Comprising: 4 stamps of different values.

   NOW AVAILABLE (24 October 2024) in the NEW Stamp Issue shop category on the Home page of Cyprus Stamps website.

   Issue Date: 30 September 2024 

   Available on Cyprus Stamps website as: a set of 4 stamps, Sets of 4 Full Sheets, each containing 16 stamps and a single Post Office Official First Day Cover (FDC).

   The pine processionary moth has reached a critical threshold of damage to pine forests. Factors such as climate change, forest fires and habitat loss have led to rapid and significant increases in the harmful population.
   A healthy population of species like the Eurasion hoopoe and great tit, when evenly distributed throughout the forests, serves as a natural balance in controlling the pine processionary moth, especially during the breeding season.
   The Forestry Department has been collaborating with TaÅŸkent Nature Park since 2022 to the reproduction of the parasitic fly Phryxe caudata as well as to attract and promote populations of the Calosoma sychophanta beetle, both species of insects as a natural control of the pine processionary moth and its caterpillar.

   Name of Artist: no information supplied.
   
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3. NEW NORTH CYPRUS STAMP ISSUE: 50th Anniversary of the Cyprus Peace Operation.

   Posted on 2:00pm Monday 12th Aug 2024

   NEW IN STOCK TODAY: 12 August 2024

   NORTH CYPRUS STAMPS SG 2024 - 50th Anniversary of the Cyprus Peace Operation.
   

   Available on Cyprus Stamps website as: a single stamp, Full Sheet of 4 stamps and a Post Office Official First Day Cover.
   
   Issue Date: 19 July 2024
   
   Turkey’s 1974 Cyprus Peace Operation was carried out in response to Greece’s fascist coup attempt for Enosis on 15 July 1974. Based on the rights and authority granted by the 1960 Guarantee Agreement, the Peace Operation aimed to protect Turkish Cypriots who had been forcibly expelled from the founding equal partnership of the Republic of Cyprus since 21 December 1963.

   During the period between 1963 – 1974, they endured inhumane sieges with 103 villages occupied and looted, hundreds killed and forced to live in open-air prisons in 3% of the island under hunger, poverty and deprivation.

   The operation saved the Turkish Cypriot population from absolute genocide, toppled fascist coup agreements in Cyprus and Greece, preventing Enosis and preserving the island’s independence.

   Text Info: Turkish Cyprus Postal Authority.
   No details supplied for Design Artist.
   
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4. North Cyprus Stamps NEW IN STOCK: 2024 Paris Olympics + 2024 Euro Football Championship

   Posted on 2:00pm Sunday 21st Jul 2024

   NORTH CYPRUS STAMPS:
   NEW STOCK.

   North Cyprus Stamps Paris 2024 Olympic Games (Olimpiyat Oyunlari)
   Issue Date: 24 June 2024.

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   North Cyprus Stamps UEFA EURO 2024
   Issue Date: 24 June 2024

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   Both issues were released on 24 June 2024 and comprise of 2 stamps per set.
   

   Paris Olympics: Available on Cyprus Stamps website as a set of 2 stamps of the same value, in MINT and CTO/USED, on a Full Sheet of 6 sets (12 stamps) and a Post Office Official First Day Cover (FDC).

   UEFA Euro 2024: Available on Cyprus Stamps website as a set of 2 stamps of different values, in MINT and CTO/USED, two Full Sheets of 16 sets (32 stamps - subject to availability) and a Post Office Official First Day Cover (FDC).

   Find them in the NEW Stamp Issue shop category from the Home page of Cyprus Stams website / online shop.

   Also on our dedicated eBay UK seller account for North Cyprus Stamps here.

   
   
   For more details and information behind each of the issues, read more below:

5. FINALLY! North Cyprus Stamps 2024 EUROPA issue: Underwater Fauna and Flora are IN STOCK.

   Posted on 3:20pm Friday 28th Jun 2024

   North Cyprus / Turkish Cyprus Stamp Issues 2024.

   ARRIVED! 28 June 2024
   

   
   On 6 May 2024:
   c) EUROPA Underwater Fauna and Flora.
   
   

   Available on Cyprus Stamps website: as a set of 2 stamps (MINT or CTO/USED), Official FDC. Also Full Sheets of 8 stamps of 2 designs (se-tenant and tete-beche) in MINT condition.
   
   With thanks to Tevfik CAMGÖZ who contributed to the preparation of this series with his underwater photographs.
   
   The Lionfish is a genus of poisonous marine fish that lives in coral reefs. They pose a danger to humans.
   They live in areas close to the shore and at depths of 50 meters. It is defined as an invasive species in Mediterranean countries and hunting is encouraged.
   
   The Lahoz/Grida fish is a very predatory, carnivorous fish that lives in rocky, stony or gravel areas at a depth of 20-200 m. It feeds on all kinds of large and small crustaceans, invertebrates and small fish. It breeds between May and June. The meat of the Mediterranean is one of the most delicious and famous fish.
   
   The Octopus is among the most intelligent and behaviorally diverse animals among the invertebrates. Self-protection strategies include; squirting ink, use of camouflage and threatening behavior are very common in water. It is noted for its fast movement and hiding abilities.
   
   Haliclona oculata, also known as mermaid glove, is found at depths from 4 meters to approximately 1,000 meters and is a type of sea sponge.
   
   Name of Artist: Görel KOROL SÖNMEZER

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6. NEW IN STOCK Cyprus Stamps 2024 - Olympic Games Paris + EUROPA 2024 Fauna and Flora.

   Posted on 12:00pm Thursday 23rd May 2024

   NEW IN STOCK TODAY 23 May 2024

   Olympic Games - Paris 2024

   Comprising of 4 stamps.
   Available on Cyprus Stamps website as a set of 4 stamps MINT and/or CTO (USED) stamps, Full Sheets x 4 of 8 stamps (Mint) or Used (subject to availability) and a Post Office Official First Day Cover.

   

    

   "Our role is clear: to unite – and not to deepen divisions. Therefore, we carry an important responsibility – to stand together for the power of sport and to live up to our shared mission to make the world a better place through sport.”

    

   Thomas Bach
   President of the International Olympic Committee

   Our Olympic team is preparing for the Olympic Games. We have worked hard, with dedication towards our goal. We have given all that we can so that the inexhaustible Cyprus talent can be highlighted and for our athletes to be included amongst the best worldwide. We believe that they are ready for the big summer celebration, to fight for what is "beautiful and true" and to make our small country proud.

   For Cyprus, faster, higher, stronger, together with the Olympic team in Paris.

   Design – Artwork: Alexandros Savvides, Lefkosia
   Text: Cyprus Olympic Committee

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   EUROPA 2024 – “Fauna and Flora”

   Comprising of 2 stamps.
   Available on Cyprus Stamps website as a set of 2 stamps MINT and/or CTO (USED) stamps, Full Sheets x 2 of 8 stamps (Mint) or Used (subject to availability), Booklet (different dimension than usual) and a Post Office Official First Day Cover.

   

   The underwater Fauna & Flora was the theme chosen by PostEurop for this year's issue of Europa stamps.

   The seas of Cyprus are rich in fauna and flora.

   The €0.34 stamp depicts algae. Algae are a large, multiphyletic class of unicellular or multicellular organisms of varying shapes and sizes. Microalgae are algae that are tiny and invisible to the naked eye, while some other species are visible to the naked eye and can reach several meters in length are called macroalgae.

   The €0.64 stamp depicts the sea anemone. It belongs taxonomically to the anthozoa. There are several species of sea anemone of various colours, most of which are small (1.5 – 3 cm), although we can also encounter anemones with a much larger diameter. It owes its name to its overall appearance, which resembles a flower rather than a sea animal. Its body is almost cylindrical; its lower part is wider and with it rests upright and lives on all types of marine substrate, sand rocks, empty shells and macroalgae.

   Design – Artwork: Anna Fotiadou, Lefkosia
   Text: Dept of Postal Services

7. NEW IN STOCK at CyprusStamps.com website today! ANNIVERSARIES North Cyprus Stamps 2 April 2024 Issue

   Posted on 4:00pm Tuesday 21st May 2024

   North Cyprus Stamps "Anniversaries" / Yil Dönümleri.
   
   NEW IN STOCK at CyprusStamps.com website today!

    

   North Cyprus Stamps SG 2024

   Anniversaries

   MINT
   

    Issue Date: 2 April 2024

    

   Available on Cyprus Stamps website: as a set of 2 stamps (MINT or CTO/USED), Official FDC. Also 2 x Full Sheets of 15 stamps and 1 pictorial selvedge in MINT condition.

    

   Find them here in the NEW Stamps Issue shop category
   
   
   Inner Wheel, one of the world's largest voluntary women's non-governmental organisations serving in the TRNC, celebrated its 24th year in North Cyprus and its 100th year worldwide in 2024. Its three main objectives are to Promote True Friendship, Promote Personal Service Ideals and Contribute to World Peace by Promoting International Understanding.
   It has over 4000 clubs and more than 120,000 members in over 100 countries.
   The evolving Inner Wheel clubs in Northern Cyprus, having gained the right to become District 222 in 2021, continue their work for the benefit of civil society with 560 members and 12 clubs.
   Variious projects are undertaken in the fields of education, health, sustainable environment and energy resources, women, children and elderly rights.
   Inner Wheel is represented with observer status at the UN's Vienna, Geneva and New York Offices by 5 members.
   Every three years, conventions held in different countries bring together members from around the world to introduce their countries and clubs and to make decisions to expand and enhance their service boundaries under the Inner Wheel umbrella.
   
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   With the start of bi-communal conflicts in December 1963, Turkish Cypriot students studying at the English School in the Greek side, were unable to go to school.
   In order to provide opportunities for such students, a school named "KöÅŸklüçiftlik English School" was established on 27 January 1964 as a branch of English School, with the initiatives of some volunteer parents and teachers Hasan Nevzat, Behzat Gürsel and Mahmut IslamoÄŸlu.
   KöÅŸklüçiftlik English School, which started out as a private school, was transferred to the Department of Education on 1 September 1967 under the name "The English College", provided that it preserved its unique features.
   After the 1974 Peace Operation, the school moved to its current building in Küçük Kaymakli under the name "Turkish Maarif College".
   The college celebrated its 60th anniversary on 27 January 2024. It currently has 1223 students and 137 teachers.
   
   Name of Artist: Görel Korol Sönmezer
   

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8. Cyprus Stamps - the first issues of 2024. Buy Now. Refugee Fund Tax Reprint | Anniversaries and Events.

   Posted on 6:00pm Sunday 3rd Mar 2024

   NEW CYPRUS STAMPS 2024 (FEBRUARY) AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE.

   Cyprus Stamps - the first issue of 2024 is as follows:

   22 February 2024:
   a) “100 Years of the Greek Gymnasium of Famagusta” - a single stamp.
   b) "80 years of SEK 1944 – 2024" - a single stamp.

   Available on Cyprus Stamps website in sets of 2 stamps, MINT, CTO/USED.
   Sets of 2 Full Sheets each containing 8 stamps. Sets of 2 Post Office Official FDCs 

   In addition: The "Refugee stamp reprint 2024”.
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   100 YEARS OF THE GREEK GYMNASIUM OF FAMAGUSTA.
   
   The Greek Gymnasium of Famagusta was recognized by Royal Decree on the 06.03.1924 as equivalent to public Gymnasiums in Greece. After the independence of Cyprus in 1960, other Gymnasiums were founded in the city. Until August 1974 when Famagusta was occupied by the Turkish occupation troops, four Gymnasiums and one Technical School used to operate. In the school year 1973-74, 4496 students attended public secondary schools in Famagusta.
   
   The contribution of the Greek Gymnasium of Famagusta and of the other Gymnasiums is highlighted through the three-volume work of the Association of Alumni and Friends of the Greek Gymnasiums of Famagusta "Mixed Greek Gymnasiums of Famagusta". On the 21st of December 2023, the Academy of Athens awarded the Greek Gymnasium of Famagusta for its contribution to Greek education and society in general.
   
   
   

   

   80 years of SEK 1944 – 2024.
   
   The Cyprus Workers' Confederation (SEK) is the largest Trade Union in Cyprus, which represents workers in all sectors of the labour market, while developing a rich social and cultural activity in parallel.  At the same time, through its 80-year history, it has actively participated in all the national struggles of our country.
   It was founded on the 29th of October 1944, with the aim of promoting and solving all the problems and complex challenges faced by employees and society at large.
   
   Through its documented and responsible trade union and political intervention, it has marked the socio-economic progress and development of our country over time.
   
   SEK pioneered the creation of hundreds of Collective Agreements, the introduction of the institution of the automatic wage indexation, the Industrial Relations Code, the Provident Funds, the Health and Welfare Funds, as well as the creation of the Social Insurance Fund and the GHS.  
   SEK is a founding member of ETUC and ITUC which are the strongest trade unions at European and global level.  
   
   
   

   The Anniversaries and Events issue comprises of: 2 stamps each with a different value.
   Available on Cyprus Stamps website: in sets of 2 stamps (MINT, or USED/CTO), Sets of 2 Official FDCs and as sets of 2 Full Sheet of 8 stamps MINT condition (or CTO/USED subject to availability).
   
   
   Design - Artwork: Nicos Ierodiaconou, Lefkosia.

9. NOW IN STOCK! Cyprus Stamps issue date: 17 November 2023 - "Michalakis Giasemidis" musician and "Christmas stamps"

   Posted on 12:00pm Sunday 10th Dec 2023

   NOW IN STOCK!

   Cyprus Stamps - Two New Issues:

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   On 17 November 2023:
    

   Michalakis Giasemidis musician - ΜιχαλακηςΓιασεμιδης 1923 - 2019

   Βorn in Koilani on 3rd November 1923, the seventh child of Chrysanthos and Anastasia. His father made lutes and violins.
   
   From a very young age he showed his love for music. When he was 5 years old, at his own insistence, his father constructed him a small violin and the boy began to play from morning to night.
   
   He was gifted and born for music. He was self-taught, studied a lot by himself and played with equal ease and skill, all kinds of music, classical, folk, jazz, rebetika, dance music, orchestral music.

   With his talent and dedication to music, he contributed to the establishment and prosperity of jazz music in Cyprus and he lead local musical events to high levels. Whatever musical instrument happened to be in front of him, he took it in his hands and played it.

   He was a unique talent in improvisation, and a master (virtuoso) in execution.

   His contribution to the rescue and preservation of Cypriot folk music is one of the greatest services he offered to the country.

   From 1966 he collaborated with RIK and at the same time played in the most elite centres of the time with singers Sofia Vembo, Toni Marouda, Gounaris, Nana Mouschouri, Souli Sabah, Rena Vlachopoulou, Kalliopi Spyrou, Michalis Violaris, Doros Georgiadis.

   He did orchestrations, composition - performances for theatrical schemes with great ease.

   He was honoured by the State, by Unions, Municipalities, by the late Chief of the National Guard, Evangelos Florakis, by the Fotou Fotiadis Cultural Charitable Foundation which nominated him for the Guinness Award as a self-taught musician who played 30 instruments.

   He possessed the knowledge of a well-educated musician who had acquired his knowledge little by little through his talent and dedication to his work, without any degrees.

    

   The issue comprises of: a single stamp and a Post Office Offical FDC.
   Available on Cyprus Stamps website: single stamp (MINT, or USED/CTO), Official FDC and as a Full Sheet of 8 stamps MINT condition (or CTO/USED subject to availability).

    

   Design - Artwork: Nicos Ierodiaconou.
   Text: Anastasia Stylianou.

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   Cyprus Stamps - Christmas 2023
   

   The two festive stamps depict the festive spirit of Christmas with children singing carols and a decorated Christmas tree.

   The 64 cent stamp depicts the Nativity of Christ.

   In a simplistic manner and in accordance with the Nazarene style, the Nativity of Christ, a signed work by the painter Constantis Sergios dated 1961, is situated in the alcove of the altar of the occupied church of Agios Ioannis of Prodromos in the enclosed city of Famagusta (Varosia).

   The place where the divine Nativity scene is situated is of particular interest since it symbolizes the Nativity cave and the area where offerings are given, namely the preparation of the sacred gifts by the priest.

   The issue comprises of: 3 stamps each with a different value.
   Available on Cyprus Stamps website: in sets of 3 stamps (MINT, or USED/CTO), Sets of 2 Official FDCs and as sets of 2 Full Sheet of 8 stamps MINT condition (or CTO/USED subject to availability).
   
   In addition there is: a Set of 3 Maximum Cards.
   

   Design - Artwork: Christina Olympiou - €0,34c stamp and Panayiota Epifaniou - €0,41c and €0,64c stamp.
   
   Text: Cyprus Postal Service and Dr. Christodoulos Chatzichristodoulou.

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   Also available in our eBay account here: [cyprusstampsonline]

10. NEW North Cyprus / Turkish Cyprus / TRNC stamps ISSUE 25 October 2023

    Posted on 12:00pm Friday 10th Nov 2023

    NEW STAMP ISSUE - North Cyprus / Turkish Cyprus / TRNC Stamps
    
    North Cyprus Stamps SG 2023 "Cyprus Endemic Plants" / KIBRIS ENDEMIKLERI
    Issue Date: 25 October 2023
    

     

    Find them in the NEW Stamp Issue shop category from the Home page of Cyprus Stamps website.

    Comprising of 2 separate stamps of different values, featuring:
    
    Phlomis brevibracteata Turril / Kisa Cicek Yaprakli Ballik
    Short-bracteate Jerusalem-sage.
    Plant: erect, perennial shrub, up to 2m high with tetragonal shoots covered with short, stellate hairs.
    Flowering: May – June.
    Habitat: In garigue on dry limestone (altitude 50-925m).

     

    
    Sedum eriocarpum subsp. Porphyreum (Kotschy)’t Hart / Mor Dam Korogu
    Purple stonecrop.
    Plant: small, annual, succulent herb, 3 – 6cm high, with hairless, reddish-green stems.
    Flowering: March – May.
    Habitat: rock crevices and rock clefts with soil, rocky and stony hillsides on limestone formations (altitude 0-600m).

     

     Available on Cyprus Stamps website in the following format - sets of 2 stamps MINT, CTO/USED, Sets of 2 Full Sheets (8 stamps per sheet) – MINT, CTO/USED and also Post Office Official FDCs.

    
    Name of Artist: Görel Korol Sönmezer

    
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