http://www.stampandcoin.co.uk JANUARY 2016 115For daily stamp updates, and to sign up for our e-newsletter, visit the Stamp & Coin Mart website: http://www.stampandcoin.co.ukpool teaching a child to swim061 Graphic Art. Polo Hofer, one value
Issue date: November 14, 2013; Design: by the
celebrity musician and singer Urs Hofer (stage
name Polo Hofer, born 1945); Printer: Giesecke
& Devrient, Leipzig; Perforations 13.5 x 13.5
100c – Guitar in the form of a swan062 Scenic Switzerland series.
The Mattertal, one value in a miniature sheet
Issue date: November 14, 2013; Design:
Leander Wenger (photograph); Printer:
Enschedé, offset; Perforations: 13.25 x 14
Miniature sheet 200c – Mattertal in winter
(showing a farmstead in snow, and the
Matterforn 4,478m in the background)063 Christmas 2013. Young Animals and
Christmas Lanterns, four values
Issue date: November 14, 2013;
Design: Steffy Merz; Printer: Enschedé, offset;
Perforations: 13.75 x 14.25
85c – Foxy, the smart little fox, looking
at a shiny bauble
100c – Bambi, the fawn, looking at
Christmas lanterns
140c – Emma the owl, looking at
illuminated bauble
190c – Jerry the squirrel standing
in light of a lantern064 150th anniversary of Relations
between Switzerland and Imperial Japan,
two values in a sheetlet
Issue date: February 6, 2014;
Design: Stefanie Haberli-Bachmann; Printer:
Cartor, offset; Perforations: 12.75 x 12.75.
Stamps inscribed in English
Sheetlet:
100c x four copies – View of Mount Fuji framed
by blossoming cherry trees beside
Lake Kawaguchi
100c x four copies – View of floral meadow in
Swiss springtime
Notes: the sheetlet contains a block of four of
each design (4 x 2), and therefore two se-tenant
pairs. It has an illustrated border depicting a
dandelion ‘clock’065 Fungi, two values
Issue date: March 6, 2014; Design: Karin Hänni;
Printer: Enschedé, offset; Perforations: 12 x 12
10c – Chanterelle, Cantherellis cibarius
15c – Sooty milkcap, Lactarius lignyotus
20c – Blue-green hydnellum,
Hydnellum caeruleum
50c – Cone fungus,
Strobilomyces strobilaceus066 International Year of Crystallography,
two values
Issue date: March 6, 2014;
Design: Daniel Dreier; Printer: Cartor, offset and
foil die-stamped; Perforations: 13 x 13
85c – Epidote (crystal formed of calcium
aluminium iron sorosilicate)
150c – Amethyst067 ‘Fred and Fun’, featuring cartoon
character Fred the Dinosaur, two self-
adhesive values
Issue date: March 6, 2014; Design: Beat Sigel
(creator of the Fred cartoon strip); Printer:
Enschedé, offset; Perforations: die-cut circular
(beach), or die-cut perf 12 x 12 (Fred)
(A) self-adhesive coil stamps: circular format
(40mm diameter)
100c – Dinosaur families at the beach.
Circular format (40mm diameter)
100c – Fred the Dinosaur as a philatelic
Sherlock Holmes, chasing stamps
with a magnifying glass.
Rectangular format
(height 28mm x width 43mm)
The two designs alternate on the coil
(surround matrix is removed)(B) self-adhesive booklet (9.00f), stamps affixed
1/4/4 to three inside covers
100c x one copy – Dinosaur families
at the beach
100c x eight copies (two ‘blocks’ of four) – Fred
the Dinosaur as a philatelic Sherlock Holmes
Activities in the beach scene include picnicking,
bathing, sandcastle building, volleyball068 125th anniversary of Swiss Army Post,
one value
Issue date: March 6, 2014; Design: Barbara
Ehrbar; Printer: Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig,
Germany; Perforations: 13.25 x 13.5
100c – Army post letter (mock-up, with
stamp with postmark 6-3.14) with
illustrated cachet of arrow through
heart (after L Hirschhofer c1914)069 Centenary of the Swiss National Park,
Canton Graubunden (Grisons), three values
Issue date: March 6, 2014; Design: Andreas
Panzer, offset; Printer: Gutenberg AG, Schaan,
Liechtenstein, offset; Perforations: 13.5 x 13.75
100c – Stump of aged dwarf pink,
hiker and mountains
100c – Bird of prey in flight before far side
of Piz Nair, 3056m
100c – Pine trees and right flanks of Piz
Nair shrouded in cloud
Notes: the first and only National Park in
Switzerland, created by vote of Swiss Parliamenton March 27, 1914; no human residences
or interferance apart from hiking and trail
maintainance is permitted070 Centenary of the Swiss Air Force,
two values
Issue date: March 6, 2014; Design: Fredy
Trump; Printer: Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig,
Germany, offset; Perforations: 13.25 x 13.5
100c – McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18
Hornets in fight
140c – Northrop F-5 Tiger and aerobatic
squadron over Alps
Notes: a pair of maximum cards were also
released, and a postal stationery postcard for
Day of Aerophilately (on May 8, 2014)071 Europa 2014. National Musical
Instruments, two values se-tenant
Issue date: May 8, 2014; Design: Marc Weller;
Printer: Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig, Germany,
offset; Perforations: 13.5 x 13.5
100c – Dulcimer and its hammers, and
ornamental harmonika
100c – Ornamental harmonika, and
traditional alpenhorn (made from
single naturally curved spruce trunk)
Notes: printed in se-tenant pairs within sheet of
sixteen stamps072 Renewable Energy, one value
Issue date: May 8, 2014; Design: Ricco
Meierhofer; Printer: Giesecke & Devrient,
Leipzig, Germany, offset with varnish layer;
Perforations: 13.3 x 13.3
100c – Wind Turbine park, Sunlight striking
solar panels, Barrage (part of hydro-
electric plant)053054055056064067p109 New Issues - PAGE NOs.indd 115 23/11/2015 14:47