The €1.70 stamp showing the aurora borealis and the €1.20 stamp featuring a type of long-distance ice skating will be issued March 8.

Also in this monthly edition of Linn's are features about postal reform in India and another on the difference between a pane and sheet of stamps.

Great Britain’s Royal Mail is paying tribute to the history of its stamps, 150 years of organized philately and the 50th anniversary of the royal opening of one of the world’s finest philatelic museums with a set of six stamps being issued Jan. 15.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Royal Philatelic Society London, and the society is planning many celebratory events across the globe.

Additional stories this week looked at a cover actor Yul Brynner sent to Iraq and ceremony details for the upcoming U.S. Gregory Hines commemorative stamp.

Registration is now open for the American Philatelic Society’s 2019 Summer Seminar on Philately.

The 1938-1940 French Guinea set of 33 pictorial stamps is a good buy in unused hinged condition and mint never-hinged condition.

An upcoming stamp from Aland will commemorate the 80th anniversary of a man’s two-month journey across the Atlantic to New York City in a small wooden motorboat.

The United Nations Postal Administration has added Hello Kitty stamps and made other changes to its 2019 stamp program.

On Dec. 27, Royal Mail announced plans for a set of 11 British stamps honoring the 75th anniversary D-Day in 2019. Within hours it was determined that the photograph on one stamp in the set is unrelated.

Great Britain’s Royal Mail will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the birth bicentenaries of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on stamps to be issued in 2019.

The melted cheese dish fondue is featured on recent stamps from two countries.

The United Nations Postal Administration will celebrate the Chinese New Year with a Year of the Pig personalized pane to be issued Jan. 11.

The 1997 Honduras Sixth Central American Games set of three souvenir sheets of 10 airmail stamps is in demand and selling for two to three times the 2019 Scott catalog value.

Canada Post will honor World War I flying ace William George Barker on a stamp to be issued in 2019, according to a Dec. 14, 2018, announcement from Canada Post about its 2019 stamp program.

Aland Post added a little sparkle to its Christmas stamps through the use of holographic foil.

Post Luxembourg chose a special finish for its two Christmas stamps issued Dec. 4.

Also in the Dec. 31 issue are articles about stamps used on fundraising reply envelopes and an exploration of a worldwide stamp mixture.

To celebrate its 300th anniversary on Jan. 23, the Principality of Liechtenstein will issue its first embroidered souvenir sheet.

The holiday season is in full swing, and thinking of thoughtful gifts for a stamp collector can sometimes be challenging.