2 stamps Norwegian art II - Kjell Nupen and Irma Salo Jæger.
Roe deer are the smallest of Norway’s deer. You will find them in any county south of Troms. In the 19th century roe deer were still rare in Scandinavia.
The average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere has risen considerably since 1975, and the prevailing opinion among climate scientists is that this is attributable to human activity. Ever increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, such as CO², prevent radiated heat from escaping from the atmosphere
A proud moment? Absolutely! It’s like a special occasion when you post a letter with a stamp you have created yourself. The letter is to Grandma and the stamp is bound to bring her pleasure – it’s a photo of her new grandchild. Children are one of the most popular subjects for personalised stamps.
It is now 150 years since the birth of “Ja, vi elsker dette landet”. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson wrote the words and Rikard Nordraak composed the music for what was to become Norway’s national anthem. Arild Yttri has engraved a fine stamp to commemorate this anniversary.
Natural phenomena and engineering skills are part of the wide range of this year’s tourist stamps, and the most spectacular of the natural phenomena is surely the Northern Lights (Aurora borealis).
In 2009, it is 400 years since Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) pointed a telescope at the sky and saw that the Earth was only one of many planets and not the centre of the universe.
The farewell party on 29 December 1809 for the Danish Prince Christian August (chosen as successor to the Swedish throne) was attended by many prestigious people and about two hundred were invited to help found a Norwegian society for local development.
It is a hundred years this year since the launching of Norway’s first submarine at Germaniawerft in Kiel.
‘Cultural heritage’ tends to make us think of stave churches,
Viking ships and historical
objects.
Knut Hamsun was born in Vågå in Gudbrandsdalen in 1859. In 1962 his family moved to Hamarøy in Nordland, where his father worked the small Hamsund farm.
August 21th marks the start of a new series of stamps. The theme is Norwegian popular music and the first stamps in the series celebrate the four artists who played a central role when rock and roll came to Norway at the end of the 1950s.
Norway's first shipowners' association was founded in Bergen in 1899, and Stavanger, Kristiania,
Arendal and Kristiansand
followed suit. In 1909, representatives of the local associations met in Kristiania. After securing the support of half of
the country's tonnage, they convened on 15 September 1909 to found the Norwegian Shipowners' Association (Norges Rederforbund),
with former Prime Minister Christian Michelsen as president.
On October 8th we commemorated the centenary of the Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted with a stamp designed by Enzo Finger. The value of the stamp is printed in Braille.
Enzo Finger are responsible for designing four new stamps in our Norwegian Art series, which go on sale on 16 November. The works shown on the stamps are by sculptors Gustav Vigeland, Nils Aas, Arnold Haukeland and Kristian Blystad.
The subjects of this year’s Christmas stamps designed by Madeleine Mortensen symbolise Christmas decorations, and in the background we can read the words from two different Christmas carols.