Cute bunny's Easter wishes This year's Easter stamp portrays a bunny 26.2.2016

Anna-Mari West photographed her own pet for this 1st class stamp that features a bunny wearing a yellow bow. Elli the bunny is pictured amidst Easter eggs and new birch leaves in the adorable photograph. "I find my inner peace in aesthetic and visual things. Being able to create something beautiful simply makes me happy," Ms West says.

Ms West has a degree in economics, but she moved to the creative industry in order to express herself better. This is the first stamp she has designed. Many of her photographs have been printed on postcards, notebooks and calendars.  
Thank you Ella.

Easter 2.3.2015

A perfect choice for an Easter stamp is Spring twitter, in which a great tit sings its heart out on a branch with willow catkins. In the foreground, there is a narcissus protruding over the regular borders of the stamp. The graphic design of the Spring twitter stamp comes from Salli Parikka Wahlberg, known for her storybook, textbook and children's book illustrations as well as the numerous cover pictures, labels and postcards designed by her. 

Thank you Dear Ella.

Easter 3.3.2014

On March 3, Itella Posti Oy released the traditional Finnish Easter stamp, depicting a cheerful girl dressed like a bunny surrounded by Easter eggs and spring flowers. The Easter stamps have been designed by Päivi Unenge, an artist who lives in Sweden.

Thank you Ella.

Easter

Cyprus Post issued A set of 3 stamps for Easter this year on 3.4.2013 with different values entitled:
Christ's Entry Into Jerusalem, 
The Crucifixion & 
The Resurrection.ely FDC.

Thank you Dear Merja for this lovely FDC.

Easter 8.3.2013

The 2013 Easter stamp features a brightly colored rooster that carries a willow catkin in his beak and has an Easter egg at his feet. TheEaster Rooster stamp sheet, designed by Katja Saario and released on 8.3.2013, contains ten 1st class stamps. According to the Finnish Easter tradition, it is the rooster that lays chocolate eggs and hides them for the children to find on Easter Sunday. In church art, the rooster is a symbol of vigilance and endurance, and it stands on the top of the bell tower of many churches. 

Thank you Ella for this lovely FDC.

Happy Easter! 5.3.2012

The stamp was designed for Easter greetings, and in fact it was published on 5th March, has a funny cartoon-like design. It was be published as a booklet of 10 self-adhesive stamps entitled Happy Easter! The stamp designed by Illustrator Janne Harju depicts a chick and a bunny painting on an Easter egg. Happy Easter from Chicken and Rabbit! They are painting a huge egg with catkin and a tail. 1st class self-adhesive stamp. On the FDC envelope you can see an Easter witch. It is a popular character in the Nordic Easter tradition. Today, they are most often represented as scarf-clad women riding a broom, accompanied by a black cat and a copper coffee pot. My friend Ella gave me this FDC and the maxicard show alongside.

Winter Egg by Faberge

Faberge eggs are the most famous decorated Easter eggs. In 1883 the Russian Czar, Alexander, commissioned Faberge to make a special Easter gift for his wife, the Empress Marie.
This special Faberge eggs so delighted the Czarina that the Czar promptly ordered the Faberge firm to design further eggs to be delivered every Easter. In later years Nicholas II, Alexander's son,continued the custom. Fifty-sevenFaberge eggs were made in all.

The Winter Egg brought "big money" in modern times as well. In 1949, it was sold for a mere $4,760; but in 1994, it was acquired anonymously at public auction by an American businessman for the record price of $5.5 million dollars. During Christie's Auction on April 19 2002, Faberge scrambled the senses when its "Winter Egg" sold for $9.58 million, breaking the previous record for aFaberge egg at $3 million. "The intrinsic value of the egg is comparatively quite low," says Von Habsburg. "The Winter Egg consists of two blocks of rock crystal – a couple of thousand dollars – a bit of platinum and some three thousand minute rose cut diamonds – another couple of thousand dollars. So all in all, if you break this egg up, what is it worth? Four or five thousand dollars. What are you paying for? The vision and genius of Faberge !" This really exceptional First Day Cover with the Faberge eggs mini sheet is a treasured (for me) gift from My Dear Friend Merja. It was issued on 28.10.2005. It may be mentioned here that the Total print of this sheet was only 200 000 copies, in addition there were 2,500 numbered deluxe copies with real gold and silver embossing used.