During February I did not see much news. Maybe it was because I was too busy and overlooked something or because not much was published. This is everything I found:
- The image of the French stamp about the Little Prince that will be issued in April became available. It is a single stamp and as far as I can see it is the first time that this particular illustration appears on a stamp. But I might be wrong. Just recently I actually discovered that there was a Little Prince stamp in Israel in the 1990s.
- The popular German children's TV show Die Sendung mit der Maus turns 50 this year and is honoured with a stamp. This stamp was actually featured in yesterday's episode. If you speak German this is interesting to see, as it is shown how the stamp is produced. Also this is one of so far five stamps with the new Matrixcode, which enables a rudimentary tracking function and also gives information about the motive.
- I am now on Twitter (@dustin15collect). So far I have not posted much, but you can see the upcoming Little Prince and Star Wars stamps there. Also if you did not know, I am on Instagram as well (@dustin15_collections), where I often show things from my collection.
Only new issue of February were the Mother Hulda stamps from Germany.
To my own collection I added this month Mother Hulda in mint condition and on matching cards as well as the Open-air Bath stamp of last year on a matching Spongebob postcard. As today is already the 1st March, I was able to buy the stamp about the Sendung mit der Maus in mint condition, on a First Day Sheet and in an Erinnerungsblatt. Matching cards I will prepare tomorrow to get the special postmarks. I like this stamp and I guess it will be popular also among non-collectors.
