Canal Zone stamps are especially popular with collectors who worked or lived in the Canal Zone during its existence.

The design of the nondenominated permanent-rate stamp (currently $1.24) shows a smiling Mulroney in a photograph taken by Bill McCarthy.

The United Nations established April 6 as the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace in 2013.

Witchcraft, drawing on various elements of folk religion and pagan worship, has made a big comeback in modern times.

The stamps, presented in two horizontal se-tenant strips of five, each show a different animal common in British gardens.

The design of the stamp features a prayer rug designed by Metis artist Kit Craven and Muslim weaver Noor Iqbal.

Canada Post continues its Spring Flowers series with two stamps showcasing two varieties of peonies developed by Canadian-born horticulturists.

St. Patrick has been Ireland’s patron saint since the seventh century and is best known for bringing Christianity to the Irish people in the fifth century.

Marshal Hubert Lyautey (1854-1934) was a frequent subject of French Moroccan stamps.

The U.N. began commemorating International Women’s Day 50 years ago in 1975 and officially formalized the day in 1977.

Next year’s Boston 2026 World Expo and the celebration of America’s 250th anniversary are being celebrated on the cover of the 2026 Scott catalogs.

The invitation to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists is the highest and most prestigious of honors in philately and is the world’s oldest philatelic honor.

The Art Nouveau-influenced designs are among the most beautiful British Commonwealth stamps ever issued.

The competition is free to enter, and participants can only submit one ballot.

AC/DC was founded in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. The youngest of eight children, the two were born in Glasgow, Scotland, and moved with their family to Sydney, Australia, in 1963.

The souvenir sheet is printed by ANY Security Printing Company by offset lithography in a quantity of 40,000.

On July 28, Tusass, Greenland’s postal service, will celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of Jens Rosing (1925-2008), whom Tusass calls “the foremost illustrator of Greenlandic stamps.”

A good place to start a Netherlands New Guinea collection is with the set of 16 definitive stamps issued from 1954 to 1960.

The catalog provides a comprehensive listing of all varieties and printings for the stamps and stationery of Western Ukraine, the brief Austria-Hungary successor state that later came under Polish administration.

Stamps in a set of eight show examples of 16th-century and 17th-century armor owned by monarchs such as King Henry VIII, King Charles I, King Charles II and King James II.