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	Christmas stamp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This stamp's Christmas connection is in the "XMAS 1898" at the bottom of the map.
		Although some tropical islands produce large-format Christmas stamps primarily intended for sale to stamp collectors, for the rest of the world, Christmas stamps are "working stamps" that will be used in large numbers to send greeting cards and postcards.
		During the 1990s, stamps for Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Eid, and Chinese New Year have become a regular part of the holiday program, although the designs tend be used for several years, distinguishable only by a different denomination or year date.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christmas_stamp (867 words)

	How The First Christmas Stamp Came To Be
		Brazil issued four semi-charity stamps in 1939 depicting the three Kings and the star, an angel and child, a southern cross and child, and mother and child.
		The Christmas stamp has a rather unusual beginning, but it is a story worth relating because it was the start to one of what has become a very popular topical interest today.
		There is a Christmas Philatelic Club, a Christmas Stamps of the World handbook published by the American Topical Association, and countless other efforts to promote the sale and collection of stamps that relate to the biggest celebration of the year.
	www.psestamp.com /articles/article1087.chtml (870 words)

	Christmas customs and legends on stamps
		Canada's 2¢ Christmas stamp of 1898 picturing a map of the British Empire, Scott 85, is shown in Figure 1.
		Familiar Christmas traditions are shown on the 50¢+25¢ Floating Snowman semipostal stamp, left, from the Netherlands, Scott B597; the 3.20-krone Carolers stamp, Norway Scott 1000, center; and 26-penny Child Dreaming of Christmas Delights stamp, Great Britain Scott 1198.
		Christmas Island, located in the Indian Ocean and also in the southern hemisphere, issued a set of five stamps in 1986, Scott 189-93, that show Santa relaxing in the local environment.
	www.linns.com /howto/refresher/christmas_20011203/refreshercourse.asp?uID= (1150 words)

	Christmas in Iceland
		Christmas traditions have been intermingled with ancient Yule tradition of the winter solstice.
		Anyone who did not do their part in helping the village to finish the work that needed to be done on the autumn wool before Christmas time would miss out on the reward of a new article of clothing, and they might end up as a meal for the monstrous cat.
		By Christmas Day, they've all arrived and, according to legend, have made life miserable for the inhabitants.
	christmas-world.freeservers.com /iceland.html (838 words)

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		Christmas 1/11/99 Well-known Australian painter and tapestry designer, John Coburn, has designed this year's Christmas stamps, which feature the Madonna and Child and an abstract Tree of Life.
		The 40c stamp is available in booklets of twenty self-adhesive stamps for postage on Christmas cards.
		A 45c Christmas stamp was released on 1 September as part of the Personal Greetings stamp issue.
	members.tripod.com /~OzStampWorld/17.html (184 words)

	Saskatoon Stamp Centre - The 1994 Christmas Varieties
		The design for the Christmas stamps for 1994 would have been finalized early in 1994, plates would have been prepared by the end of the summer, and the stamps, scheduled for release November 3, 1994, would likely have been printed by the end of August of 1994.
		Stamps are always shipped to post offices at least a week before the issue date.
		It is apparent that the issued stamps were rushed into production in the fall of 1994 and thus the issued stamps were printed on the Peterborough paper in use at that time.
	www.saskatoonstamp.com /prs_xmas.htm (1184 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Hindus are demanding that Royal Mail withdraws one of this year's Christmas stamps, claiming the mother and child image it represents is insulting to their religion.
		The 68p Christmas stamp, which would be used to send mail to India, features a man and woman with Hindu markings worshipping the infant Christ.
		The Hindu stamp was taken from a picture that hangs in Bombay, India, and was painted in the 17th century.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/01/nstamp01.xml (589 words)

	Whaleshark Diving - Sports Fishing Charter - Bird Watching Tour - Christmas Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Christmas Island is a dot in the Indian Ocean, located 2600km north-west of Perth, Western Australia.
		Christmas Island has a unique population with a blend of Chinese, Malay and Caucasians from the Australian mainland.
		In the case of cancellation by the ticket holder the Christmas Island Tourism Association Inc reserves the right to apply cancellation fees at their discretion, in addition to any that may be applied by the supplier of the service.
	www.christmas.net.au /introduction.html (529 words)

	Christmas Philatelic Beauties
		In spring 2000, Swiss Post asked the successful stamp designer Bernadette Baltis if she would like to tackle a series of Christmas stamps and card that should be issued over a longer period of time.
		She gladly accepted this exceptional offer and she has produces in her atelier a succession of stamps and card that marked the Swiss philately of the last 5 years.
		The 90c Christmas stamp was for the first rate letters (delivery on the second working day).
	www.artonstamps.org /Art-Gallery/Christmas/christmas-ch.htm (353 words)

	HWCN: Christmas Philatelic Club
		According to a Yule Log (bimonthly journal of the Christmas Philatelic Club) of the past and an article by Dominic Sama, I am inclined to agree that a Christmas stamp is a stamp issued expressly for the holiday and pictures a holiday-related motif.
		In the book "75 Years of Christmas Stamps" by Waller Sager and Kathleen Berry, a reference is made to a William Wylie article in Scott's Monthly Journal of Dec. 1971.
		The curiosity of this issue was that this was the first stamp on the world which depicted expressly Christmas scene." This has led me to the conclusion that Hungary's 1943 set is the world's first Christmas stamp.
	www.hwcn.org /link/cpc/1rstxmas.html (601 words)

	Religious Christmas stamp is a repeat of 2002 issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Christmas stamp again will feature Jan Gossaert's "Madonna and Child" which was first issued last year (2002).
		Although the design of the 2003 stamp is the same as the 2002 issue, the new release has a different format — a double-sided booklet of 20 stamps in 20-stamp panes.
		Officials of the USPS report that the religious Christmas stamps and the delightful holiday issues have a devoted following and are in great demand, especially by collectors.
	www.reddingemployment.com /newsarchive/20031002cu062.shtml (502 words)

	Christmas Congratulation Cards from PAs
		It displays the current Christmas stamp and the traditional cancel from the postal office 4011 Christkindl (the child of Christ).
		The "Grittibänz" stamps on the covers shown above were cancelled at the 3027 Bern 27 Bethlehem post office, a free service offered each end of the year by the Swiss Post.
		Stamps Christmas Tree, with greetings from 38 stamps collectors, in 16 different languages
	www.artonstamps.org /Magazine/christmas05/xmas-post-adm.htm (359 words)

	Christmas, Michigan
		Christmas, Michigan, population about 400, was given its name by a Munising man who started a roadside factory to make holiday gift items in 1938.
		The factory is long gone, but the the community of Christmas continued to grow, becoming a popular resort area and a joy for snowmobilers.
		On July 8, 1966 Christmas acquired its first Post Office and Christmas, Michigan was chosen as the issuing site for the First Day Cover of the 1966 Christmas Stamp.
	www.exploringthenorth.com /christmas/chr.html (570 words)

	eBay Guides - Christmas Seals
		Christmas Seals are fundraising seals issued all over the world, to raise money to fight tuberculosis and more recently lung diseases such as emphysema.
		Christmas Seals are catalogued in many postage stamp catalogues, as a back of the book item, or Cinderella stamp; looking like a postage stamp but having no postal validity; they are a step sister to stamp collecting.
		Early US Christmas seals were issued by the American Red Cross, but beginning in 1919 The National Tuberculosis Association took over and adopted the symbol of the International Union against TB, the double barred cross.
	reviews.ebay.com /Christmas-Seals_W0QQugidZ10000000000116876 (604 words)

	Christmas Stamps 1997
		New Zealand was one of the first countries to issue its 1997 Christmas stamps, with this pair on September 3.
		The second stamp in the annual US Holiday Celebrations series was Kwanzaa, the African American festival of family, community and culture.
		Both designs are found in a unique sheet of 16 stamps, each featuring four stamp-size labels showing "progressive proofs" of one of the two stamps.
	www.virtualstampclub.com /xmas3.html (170 words)

	Stamp2.com - Articles : Cinderella
		One subject to do with Christmas is the Christmas Seals that have been issued by many countries and organisations within them.
		Each seal was sold for one penny and the proceeds went to the 'Christmas Stamp Fund' for the erection and maintenance of Children's Tuberculosis Sanatoria.
		Unusually, the stamp was bilingual, and therefore is only collected as a single, and this time it did not include the name of the country.
	www.stamp2.com /articles/cinderella/cinderella20.asp (480 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Stamping Grounds
		To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors.
		The EID stamp was reissued by the USPS in
		The USPS already issues stamps commemorating the Christian holiday of Christmas (with both religious and festive themes) and the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah as well as Kwanzaa.
	www.snopes.com /politics/religion/eidstamp.asp (628 words)

	Stamp Christmas with a Personal Touch
		The stamps feature a colourful Christmas image with a blank tab attached to the right-hand side where a favourite photo of a loved one, friend or even yourself, can be placed.
		Since Personalised Stamps were introduced by Australia Post in 1999, they have made the festive season even more special for thousands of people all over the world.
		Christmas Personalised Stamps, which come in sheets of 20 stamps, are in denominations of 45c (card only rate), 50c for postage within Australia and 90c (international card only rate) to send overseas.
	www.auspost.com.au /BCP/0,1080,CH3457~MO19,00.html (413 words)

	Christmas Island Post Office
		In the last few years Chinese New Year and Christmas have always been represented with the third issue being released in the middle of the year with various themes relating to Christmas Island life.
		The Christmas Island Post Office stocks the full range of Australian stamps for general usage and for local collectors but the main focus has always been on providing unique Christmas Island stamps for postage from this beautiful island.
		Shells found in the waters of Christmas Island are the subject of the seventh series of definitive stamps issued by the Christmas Island Philatelic Bureau (as it was then).
	www.christmas.net.au /cipost/stamps.html (831 words)

	STAMP NEWS international
		The stamps are issued on 18 November and feature various scenes and characters taken from this latest instalment in the saga.
		The first postage stamps ever issued in New Zealand 150 years ago are among nearly 1200 lots to go under the hammer at Mowbray's major international $1.3 million stamp auction in Wellington on Saturday.
		The two stamps feature the Estonian hound and the Kazakh tazi, both of which are used to hunt rabbits, foxes and less frequently wolves.
	www.stampnews.com /stamp_200510.html (1592 words)

	USPS - Sept 18, 2002 - Renaissance Art Will Be Featured On This Year's Christmas Stamp
		"The new Christmas stamp celebrates this important Christian holiday with good tidings for families, friends and customers, who look forward to the delivery of their holiday cards and letters," said Danny Jackson, Vice President of the Great Lakes Area for the Postal Service, who will dedicate the stamp.
		The Christmas stamps have attracted a devoted following since the first Christmas stamp was issued in 1961.
		The 2002 stamp highlights a detail of Jan Gossaert's oil-on-panel painting, "Madonna and Child," circa 1520, from the Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago.
	www.usps.com /news/2002/philatelic/sr02_066.htm (884 words)

	Heathers Stamping Haven - Christmas Class information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Christmas is a special time of the year at Heather's Stamping Haven.
		Remember that Christmas classes are very popular and spaces fill up quickly so contact Heather's as soon as you see something you wish to attend.
		Our newest Christmas Stamp, combined with Pearl Ex and Glitter with a polyshrink Ornament that you can hang on the tree or make a pin to wear.
	www.heathersstamping.com /ChristmasClasses.htm (693 words)

	MADONNA AND CHILD ART FEATURED ON 2004 U.S. POSTAL SERVICE CHRISTMAS POSTAGE STAMP
		The new 37-cent stamp was issued today by the U.S. Postal Service at a first-day-of-issue ceremony at the Postage Stamp Mega Show in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City.
		"The new Christmas stamp helps to celebrate this important Christian holiday with good tidings for families, friends and customers, who look forward to the delivery of their holiday mail," said Robert Rider, member of the presidentially appointed U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors, who dedicated the stamp.
		The 2004 Christmas design is a tempera-on-panel "Madonna and Child." The panel dates from 1413 and is part of the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
	www.usps.com /communications/news/stamps/2004/sr04_068.htm (623 words)

	Christmas Stamps
		These Wreaths stamps were originally scheduled for this year by the US Postal Service, but weren't needed, and the stamps weren't issued.
		The US Postal Service says customers this year have the widest variety of stamps ever: Last year's Skaters ATM (bank machine) stamps are again available, and last year's Hanukkah stamps were reprinted for 1997. That's in addition to the Kwanzaa, Madonna & Child and Holly stamps issued this year.
		Germany's two Christmas stamps are semi-postals, or surcharged: They cost more than the rate of postage.
	www.virtualstampclub.com /xmas.html (162 words)

	Britain honors Wesleys with Christmas stamp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The stamp is part of a series of four released by the Royal Mail in November entitled "The Christian's Tale," celebrating the last 1,000 years of Christian experience in Britain.
		The stamp design incorporates a mixture of written texts and image, an approach for which Neuenschwander is particularly well known.
		One of the chapel's stained-glass angels served as inspiration for the stamp.
	gbgm-umc.org /umhistory/wstamp.stm (538 words)

	Canada Releases World's First Christmas Stamp - 1898 Christmas Stamp - 1898
		Canada's first stamp was the 3 penny Beaver, designed by Sir Sanford Fleming and issued in 1851.
		20,000,000 stamps were issued; half with blue oceans and the other half with a green ocean look.
		The only clue that this is a Christmas stamp is the word XMAS1898 near the bottom centre of the stamp.
	www.walkervilletimes.com /stamp.htm (341 words)

	A few of my favorite Christmas stamp things
		The Queen's Stamps traces the history of the collection owned by the British royal family to its origins in 1856 when Queen Victoria's second son Prince Alfred was taken to De La Rue & Sons, printers of postage stamps.
		When a news report mentions Sudan, stamp collectors know where it is and instantly envision a stamp showing a mail carrier astride a camel dashing across the desert.
		The album pages are designed in such a way that when the binders are opened and the pages are turned, the stamps or their fl-and-white illustrations are on the right side and the facing page and the left has stories and background information about the stamps.
	www.linns.com /howto/refresher/favorites_20041220/refreshercourse.asp (1545 words)

	Rubber Stamp Artist of the Month 5 year anniversary contest 2004 - A Monthly Rubber Stamps Club
		Stamp the boy-in-sleep image using fl ink on white cardstock and color part of the image with watercolor pencils.
		Stamp the words using watermark stamp pad on a white tag.
		Stamp 'JOY' vertically on the gold paper beneath the upper scallop and emboss with fl powder.
	www.rubberstampsclub.com /monthlycontest/july2004/christmas-winners.html (1569 words)

	Ceylon, Chemistry, Children, Chile, China, Christmas, Cook Islands, Costa Rica & Cyprus Stamps, Philately & ...
		Bureau of Posts Philippine Stamp News announcing the December 1, 1976 issue of Christmas stamps, folded to fit in #10 envelope.
		Panamanian stamps are not often seen in block of 4; for an explanation, please click here.
		These stamps were issued as prepayment of a fee to ensure personal delivery for an addressee; all the stamps so issued are present.
	www.judnick.com /LotsOfStamps/Ceylon-CyprusBoth.htm (1872 words)

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