Barbed Wire

As early as the Christmas season of 1914 some of the soldiers at the front decided on a cease fire. A few even got together for Christmas or a game of ball before returning to their trenches. A monument stands at St. Luke's in Liverpool. Commemorative sheet St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 2014.

The ceasefire of Christmas 1914 commemorated in a souvenir sheet of 2016 by Sao Tomé and Principe.

The second commemorative sheet for the Christmas truce of 1914. Depicted in the second from the left stamp there is even a football match going on. Christmas Truce Memorial: In December 2014, a memorial to the Christmas Truce was unveiled by Prince William and others. Spencer Turner (10 years old) had won the UK-wide design competition.

The Grenadines of St. Vincent, The Island of Bequia, issued another sheet for the Christmas Truce of 1914.

The two Bulgarian stamps of 1946, showing battle scenes refer to the last months of the second world war when the pro-German government of Bulgaria was ousted and the Soviet military and resistance fighters took power.

The Sobibor death camp was on the eastern edge of German-occupied Poland. On October 14, 1943, during the revolt by the Jewish prisoners the Nazis were overpowered and several hundred prisoners escaped. Following the revolt the death camp ceased to function. The stamp (2015) features one of the monuments erected at the site of the camp in 1965.

Thanks Alexey for sending this valuable addition to the collection! K.

Cyprus
11th November 1999
25 Years of Illegal Turkish Military Occupation

Showing the three types of stamp used during the 25 year period to collect taxes for the benefit of Cypriots displaced by the occupation.



Designed - Glafkos Theofylactou

Cyprus
3rd March 2001
50th Anniversary of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)




designed - Stella Symeonidou

Cyprus
20th July 1984
10th Anniv of the Turkish Invasion




designed - A Tassos

Republic of Cyprus
26 June 1995
Commemorative Issues for Health Matters - Smoking




Designer: Liza Petridou - Mala

This is not a "legal" Latvian stamp, because the country was not allowed to issue any of its own between 1940 and 1991. Interesting is the date 1918, the year in which Latvia declared its independence. Maybe there is someone out there who knows more about this stamp, for example where it was printed... (I found this scan on ebay)

Hi Outremer, Nice addition! K.

I think that this label came out somewhere in the US. The text is for some reason in English and there is a postmark

The Maldives issued a commemorative sheet honoring four world leaders in the struggle for human rights and freedom to live lives without violence and disrespect.

And a photograph of current activities at the Texas/Mexico border.

Fair Dinkum alphabet illustrator and designer Gavin Ryan has been working as a guest illustrator with Australia Post for many years. His X includes a farmer's barbed wire fence, the barbs are small X-es. (Scan of a maxicard I found on the web.)

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