posted 03-25-2011 08:51 AM               

German Postal Service (Deutsche Post):

• Date: 10.4.11
  
• Place: 44797 Bochum;
  
• Reference no.: 05/069
  
• Text: "Aktionstag '50 Jahre bemannter Raumflug Sternwarte Bochum" (Day of Action on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Manned Spaceflight - Bochum Observatory)
  

• Send your covers to:
  Deutsche Post
  NL Brief
  Sonderstempelstelle
  53253 Bonn
  Germany

• Date: 12.4.11
  
• Location: 10117 Berlin
  
• Reference no.: 06/078
  
• Text: "50 Jahre Bemannte Raumfahrt/Juri Gagarin (1934-1968) Erster im Orbit" (50 Years of Manned Spaceflight - First in Space)
  

• Send your covers to:
  Deutsche Post AG
  Niederlassung Brief
  Sonderstempelstelle
  10770 Berlin

  There will be the opening of an exhibition on the topic at the Russian House of Science and Culture at Berlin the same day. (Russischen Haus der Wissenschaft und Kultur, Friedrichstraße 176-179, 10117 Berlin)

• Date: 12.4.11
  
• Location: Garching
  
• Text: "Vor 50 Jahren Juri Gagarin 1. Mensch im Kosmos" (50 years ago - Yuri Gagarin - First Man in Space)

  Cacheted covers with that cancel at €2 from: Ralf Schulz, Postfach 1219, 02962 Hoyerswerda.

Nordkurier private mail company:

• Date: 12.4.11
  
• Location: Neubrandenburg
  
• Text: First Day of issue cancellation "50 Jahre Erster Mensch im Weltall/Juri A. Gagarin" (50 Years First Man in space)

  The same day, Nordkurier will be issuing a 44c stamp on the same occasion (print run 20.000 stamps, 800 official First Day of Issue covers). Public presentation on 12 April at Peenemünde; an exhibition will be inaugurated there. Official FDC at €5 ea. from: Raumfahrt Concret, Postfach 10 12 39, 17019 Neubrandenburg, Germany.

posted 03-25-2011 08:52 AM               

• an A-Post franking label will be used in the town of Znojmo (the label will carry the name Gagarin)

• Official Souvenir sheet of the Czech Post with a pictorial postmarker (800 printed)

• 28.4.11: slogan cancellation to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the visit of Gagarin in Czecheslovakia (the country was the first country Gagarin visited after his flight)

• Personalized stamp with a label carrying a Gagarin portrait (possibly with the above mentioned slogan cancel)

posted 04-02-2011 01:36 PM               

Pictorial postmarker:

• Date: 12 April 2011
  
• Place: 1020 Wien (Vienna)
  
• Text: "50 Jahre bemannte Raumfahrt" (50 Years of Manned Spaceflight)
  

• Send your covers to:
  Österreichische Post AG
  Zentrale Stempelstelle-Philatelie
  Fleischmarkt 19
  1010 Wien
  Austria

posted 04-05-2011 12:35 PM               

• Date: 24 - 30 March 2011
  
• Place: Beijing
  
• Pictorial postmarker: 50th Anniversary 1st Man in Space Yuri A. Gagarin (in Russian)
  
• Image: two circular stamps, launching spacecraft, stamp with an image of planet Saturn, figure "50" above a triangular stamp.

posted 04-05-2011 12:36 PM               

Issues a 75c cent stamp on the occasion on 12 April 2011.

A pictorial First Day of Issue postmarker will be used at Torino:

• Date: 12
• April 2011
  
• Place: Torino Filatelie.
  
• Text: "50 Anniversario del primo vuolo umano nello spazio" (50th Anniversary First Man in Space)
  
  
  
• Send your covers to:

  Poste Italiane
  Spazio Filatelia di Torino
  Via Alfieri, 10
  10121 Torino
  Italy

There is another pictorial postmarker in the city of Palermo:

• Date: 12 April 2011
  
• Place: Palermo 48
  
• Reference no: 406
  
• Text: "Anno della Lingua è Cultura Italiana/Jurij Gagarin 1 Uomo nello Spazio 1961 2011" (Year of Italian Language and Culture/Yuri Gagarin - 1st Man in Space)
  

• Send your covers to:

  Poste Italiane
  Filiale di Palermo 1
  Servizio Commerciale/Filatelia
  Via Roma 320 Palazzo Poste
  90133 Palermo
  Italy

posted 04-11-2011 01:08 AM               

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Originally posted by spaceman:
Any pictorial postmarks for the U.K? That's what I came on here for and got waylaid by the mystery photo. Thanks.

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posted 04-12-2011 09:40 AM               

Russia also issued a series of identical FDI postmarks in different cities. Below is the one for Moscow.

posted 04-13-2011 08:46 AM               

• Bosnia And Herzegovina - very nicely designed stamps on Yuri Gagarin

• Bulgaria miniature sheets and FDCs on Yuri Gagarin

posted 04-16-2011 08:51 AM               

• Postmarks post added - will be regularly updated with all postmarks released to mark the occasion.

• Hungary release added as well.

posted 04-18-2011 11:26 AM               

• Mongolia stamps on Yuri Gagarin added

• Postmarks updated (25 postmarks)

posted 04-19-2011 01:39 PM               

• Date: 12.4.2011
  
• Place: 550450 Şibiu 1;
  
• Text: "50 de ani de la zborul lui I.A. Gagarin/Primul Om i Cosmos/1961-2011" (50th Anniversary Flight of Yu. A. Gagarin/First Man in Space 1961-2011"
  
• Ill.: Gagarin portrait in pilot's suit (inspired by the Romanian stamp issued in 1961).
  

• Date: 12.4.2011
  
• Place: 530 300 Miercurea-Ciuc 1
  
• Text: "12 aprilie Ziua Cosmonauticcii/50 de ani de la primul zbor al unui în cosmos - Vostok 1/Iuri Alexeevici Gagarin (1934-1968)” (Cosmonautics Day/50th Anniversary 1st Man in Space/Vostok 1/Yuri Alexeiewich Gagarin (1934-1968))
  
• Ill.: Portrait Gagarin in cosmonaut's helmet, Vostok spacecraft

posted 04-20-2011 11:34 AM               

• Nagorno-Karabakh stamps and first day covers

• Armenia stamps on Yuri Gagarin

• Tranistria Yuri Gagarin stamps

posted 04-27-2011 11:08 AM               

• Sri Lanka has released a stamp on Yuri Gagarin yesterday. Stamp release pictures are available but the stamp is not clear from the pictures.

• Indonesia released a stamp on 12th April but on the theme "Antariksa [outer space].

• Ukraine released a stamp to honor cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy.

posted 04-28-2011 01:43 PM               

• Date: 7.5.11:
  
• Place: 04100 Borgo Faiti (LT);
  
• Reference No. 644
  
• Text: "50th Anniversario Primo Volo Umano nello Spazio/Dalla Vostok 1 una voce: La Terra è blu, è bellisimo" (50 Years first Manned flight into space/A voice coming from Vostok 1: Earth is blue, and it is beautiful)

• Send your stamped covers to:
  Poste Italiane
  Filiale di Latina
  Servizio Commerciale/Filatelia
  Piazza dei Bonificatori 1
  04100 Latina
  Italy.

posted 08-16-2011 02:48 PM               

The Duchy of Liechtenstein is having an exhibition on the 50th anniversary of the first man in space. Their postal service uses a pictorial postmarker to commemorate the event:

• Date: 14 Sept until 30 Oct 2011
  
• Place: Vaduz
  
• Text: "Ausstellung 50 Jahre bemannte Raumfahrt" (Exhibition 50 Years of Manned Spaceflight)
  
• Ill.: Vostok 1 spacecraft.

Postal Services are selling printed covers for 2,20 sFr. ea.

For a purchase or for sending your own covers (using Liechtenstein stamps!) use this address:

Philatelie Liechtenstein, Postfach 1000, 9490 Vaduz, Fürstentum Liechtenstein.

posted 09-24-2011 02:30 PM               

quote:

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Originally posted by collect indian stamps:
A postmark was released by France during a stamp exhibition in Strasbourg.

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posted 10-03-2011 06:13 AM               

• Reference no.: 1574
  
• Date: 25 September 2011
  
• City: 13044 Crescentino
  
• Text: "Mostra Filatelica - 50° Anniversario Primo Uomo nello Spazio" (Philatelic Exhibition - 50th Anniversary First Man in Space)
  
• Ill.: Earth, Vostok spacecraft.

Send your stamped covers to this address:
Poste Italiane
Filiale di Vercelli
Servizio Commerciale/Filatelie
Via F.lli Ponte, 9
13100 Vercelli, Italy