The Black Art of Printing........

Issued on 2 December 2019 to mark the Centenary of the Imprenta Distrital.                             (Colombia)

Issued on 30 December 1994 The 200th Anniversary of the First Armenian Periodic Print Edition "Azdarar"                        (Armenia)

One of the very few stamps showing type composition

Issued on 1 September 2017 to celebrate 500th anniversary of Belarusian Book Printing                       (Belarus)

Five stamps issued on 19 March 2015 to celebrate 150 years of postage stamps in Ecuador                         (Ecuador)

The first stamp shows Emilia Rivadeneira who engraved the stamps, the second her father, the printer and typographer Manuel Antonio Rivadeneira Heredia. The other three each show one of the original stamps along with a printing press.

Issued on 27 June 1968 Correo del Orinoco Newspaper, 150th Anniversary                              (Venezuela)

Issued on 2 August 2023 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first stamp printed in New Zealand

Issued on 2 May 1986         Batik Printer                       (Singapore)

Issued on 21 February 2011                                  (Bosnia & Herzegovina)


400th anniversary of the first printed book in the national language of Bosnia & Herzegovina

Issued on 16 September 2010 for the 550th birth anniversary of Bozidar Vukovic                            (Montenegro)



Bozidar Vukovic (c. 1460 — c. 1539) was one of the first printers of Serbian books in Montenegro. He founded the famous Vukovic printing house in Venice.

Issued on 18 February 2000 in a series 'Millenium 2000'                  (Guinea)

Tbilisi (Georgia) was named World Book Capital for the year 2021. To celebrate Georgia issued three stamps in a series Tbilisi, World Book Capital 2021 (2022)



First Printed Book In Georgia, 1709                   Stamp and mini-sheet



Anthim the Iberian is shown on the stamp. He trained Georgians in the art of printing, and cut the type with which his pupil Mihail Ishtvanovitch and he printed the first Georgian Gospels (Tiflis, 1709). The first page of which is shown on the mini-sheet




First Scientific Book Printed in Georgia, 1721               Stamp and mini-sheet



Vakhtang VI of Kartli is shown on the stamp. Ayat - The Book Of Knowledge Of Opus. The First Scientific Book printed in Tblisi, Georgia in 1721




First Futuristic Publication Printed In Georgia, 1924 Stamp and mini-sheet




H2SO4 was the name of the first Futuristic Publication printed In Georgia, 1924

ssued on 4 November 1976 on the 100th birth anniversary of Ignác Bogár.                                   (Hungary)


At the beginning of the century, he was one of the leaders of the trade union of printers, and later the secretary of the trade union in Hungary.

Issued on 2 May 2011 to celebrate 250 years of The Saarbrücker Zeitung, the daily newspaper for Saarbrücken and the Saarland.

Modern Private Post Offices (Saarriva) Germany

Issued on 4 March 2016 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Allgemeine Zeitung.                                      (Namibia)



The Allgemeine Zeitung is a German language newspaper in Namibia. The stamp shows papers coming off the end of the press.