XANTHE'S
STAMP MAGAZINE

Today Hungary released a new set of stamps celebrating dachshunds. This set has been designed by Imre Benedek with photography by Andrea Jülingné Tóth, Ádám Szalai and Zsófia Koppány. Dachshunds are very popular dogs in Hungary. They are not native dogs but they have become a huge part of Hungarian culture. The famous Hungarian filmmaker Homoki-Nagy István often showed dachshunds in his films and every year in Budapest dachshund owners from across Hungary gather for a huge si

Here is a reasonably new issue from Liechtenstein, showing Bergwelt Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein's Mountain World). I meant to review it a couple of weeks ago but there's been a lot happening at school. There are four stamps in the set and they show some of Liechtenstein's mountains. Liechtenstein is quite a small country but is is a very mountainous one! The stamps show very simple coloured silhouettes of the mountains but the miniature sheet shows a more realistic map and

A few months ago the Netherlands issued a new set of stamps about the butterflies of Saba. I reviewed them here. They are part of a four-part series looking at Saba wildlife. The Caribbean Netherlands have now also issued a set of ten stamps showing Saba's butterflies. However they are very different. There are also ten stamps, like the Netherlands issue, but they show different butterflies and the background is a coloured design based around circles instead of natural habit