Europa 2019 - 1/2 - Set

Stamps with sounds! This is the first time we have tried this innovation at POST Greenland. Read the ’NEW’ section below to find out more. But, first of all, we would like to present this year’s EUROPA stamps from POST Greenland.As has become a tradition, our two annual EUROPA stamps will each be issued as full sheets, printed on gummed paper and as a self-adhesive booklet, con-taining six of each of the two EUROPAstampsIn Greenland we have no official national bird as such. We do, however, have a number of birds that are both common and familiar. Some of them even appear in var-ious Greenlandic myths: Rock Ptarmigan, Mallard, Snow Bunting and the Common Raven.Few artists are better at depicting animal subjects than Naja Abelsen, which is why we entrusted her with the task of painting the four birds that are featured on these stamps. In her own words, here are Naja’s own thoughts about her two attractive bird stamps, featuring these four speciesBy Naja Abelsen, artist.“On the first stamp, I depicted the Rock Ptarmigan and the Mallard.