Family Day
In the 1980s, the U.N. began focusing on problems related to families. In mid 1980s, the Commission for Social Development requested the Secretary General to enhance awareness among decision makers and the public of the problems and needs of the family – especially directed towards governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and public opinion.
In 1993, the United Nations General Assembley declared May 15 of each year the International Day of Families. The point of this day is to promote awareness of issues related to families, and to increase knowledge of social, economic and demographic processes affecting them. Each year the Secretary General sets a theme for the day. For 2006 the theme was Changing Families: Challenges and Opportunities. The two stamps on the bottom row of this album page commemorate this day.
Note
The souvenir sheet on this page is part of a series that include a stamp for each member state depicting each country’s flag and coin. For Euro Zone countries, this is basically the same coin except that there’s generally a different image for each. So they’re slightly different.
I don’t care for this series. They already had the flag series. This is just another flag series, except with coins too. Will they issue next a series with flags and paper currency? It’s pandoring to the member states and trying to get more money from stamp collectors. They already issue too many stamps each year for a public and an organization that sends very little mail. How many envelops and packages do they ship each year? I’d imagine thousands. They print a few hundred thousand to over a million of each stamp. It’s too much.
Contains 13 spots: own 13 – 13 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ |
918 |
Signatory |
39 (sep 2006) |
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✓ |
896 |
25 (feb 2006) |
|||
✓ |
919 |
Signatory |
84 (sep 2006) |
Flags & Coins
✓ |
920a |
39 (oct 2006) |
|||
✓ |
920b |
39 (oct 2006) |
|||
✓ |
920c |
39 (oct 2006) |
|||
✓ |
920d |
39 (oct 2006) |
|||
✓ |
920e |
39 (oct 2006) |
|||
✓ |
920f |
39 (oct 2006) |
|||
✓ |
920g |
39 (oct 2006) |
|||
✓ |
920h |
39 (oct 2006) |
Other
✓ |
913 |
39 (may 2006) |
|||
✓ |
914 |
84 (may 2006) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.
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