Crystallography and philately

In addition to the special stamps issued to mark the International Year of Crystallography 2014, there are some other materials on this site that show some of the many stamps that have been issued in connection with crystallography and crystallographers. See, for example, the booklet by Jagannath Mani, and the interactive timeline, in which many of the stamps below are featured.

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Comment: Marks on envelope show recipient had to pay before postage stamps.

Antarctica

Country of issue: Antarctica
Date of issue: 1996
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Antigua and Barbuda

Country of issue: Antigua and Barbuda
Date of issue: 10 November 1998
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Comment: Issued as part of a minisheet celebrating famous people and events from the 20th century.

Argentina

Country of issue: Argentina
Date of issue: 20 August 2011
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Comment: Set of four "Argentine minerals". Featured: quartz; others: rhodocrosite, sulfur, pyrite.

Australia

Country of issue: Australia
Date of issue: 16 October 1974
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Comment: An issue of two stamps depicting minerals (the other shows an opal).

Country of issue: Australia
Date of issue: 28 August 2012
Designer/artist: Portrait by Sir William Dargie
Comment: Part of an issue of five stamps honouring Australian Nobel Prize Winners.

Austria

Country of issue: Austria
Date of issue: 2014
Designer/artist: Printed in Austria
Comment: This stamp shows a picture of Felix Machatschki, along with a nice feldspar crystal and a section of its crystal structure.

Belgium

Country of issue: Belgium
Date of issue: 9 June 2014
Designer/artist: Clotilde Olyff
Comment: First issue of stamps on a transparent adhesive base; illustration shows details of the stamps mounted on a commemorative first-day souvenir sheet.

Canada

Country of issue: Canada
Date of issue: 3 September 1980
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Comment: Single stamp issue on the theme Uranium Resources.

Central African Republic

Country of issue: Central African Republic
Date of issue: 1 April 1977
Designer/artist: G. L. Vasarhelyi
Comment: One of 2 stamps celebrating Nobel Prize Winners. The other shows Pierre and Marie Curie.

China

Country of issue: China
Date of issue: 20 February 1976
Designer/artist: (of set) Yang Baizi, Xu Yanbo, Chen Xiaozong, Zhang Kerang
Comment: Shows 3-dimensional structure of insulin. One of a set of 16 stamps marking the Victorious Fulfilment of the 4th Five-Year Plan.

Comoros

Country of issue: Comoros
Date of issue: 7 January 2009
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Comment: Single stamp issued as minisheet celebrating "Mineralogists". Accompanies issue of 6 other notable mineralogists.

Cuba

Country of issue: Cuba
Date of issue: 30 March 1993
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Comment: One of 8 stamps celebrating scientists.

Czech Republic

Country of issue: Czech Republic
Date of issue: 11 October 1995
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Comment: Single stamp commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Wilhelm Roentgen

Czechoslovakia

Country of issue: Czechoslovakia
Date of issue: 4 July 1966
Designer/artist: Jaroslav Goldschmied; combination photogravure/gravure printing
Comment: Single stamp commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Discovery of the Czech Chemical Society.

Danzig (Free City)

Country of issue: Danzig (Free City)
Date of issue: 29 April 1939
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Comment: One of a set of 3 commemorating German scientists. The others were G. J. Mendel, Robert Koch.

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Country of issue: Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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Comment: Issued as part of a minisheet celebrating the International Year of Crystallography (UN) and the International Year of Family Farming (FAO).

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Country of issue: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Date of issue: 25 November 2002
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Comment: Series issue 'Nobel Prize Winners'.

East Germany (DDR)

Country of issue: East Germany (DDR)
Date of issue: 20 March 1979
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Comment: Max von Laue (1879-1969). One of a series of six stamps featuring personalities with notable anniversaries. The others were Otto Hahn, Arthur Scheunert, August Kekulé, Georg Forster, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Country of issue: East Germany (DDR)
Date of issue: 24 March 1965
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Comment: Single stamp commemorating the 120th Anniversary of the birth of Wilhelm Roentgen.

Country of issue: East Germany (DDR)
Date of issue: 23 February 1971
Designer/artist: Designer: Gerhard Stauf. Engraver: Oswin Volkamer
Comment: One of an issue of 6 stamps depicting Famous Persons. Celebrates 400th anniversary of birth of Johannes Kepler (1571-1630).

Egypt

Country of issue: Egypt
Date of issue: 12 June 1995
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Comment: Single stamp commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Roentgen

Finland

Country of issue: Finland
Date of issue: 30 June 1995
Designer/artist: Asser Jaaro
Comment: Single stamp commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Roentgen

France

Country of issue: France
Date of issue: 11 April 1970
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Comment: One of a set of 3 stamps featuring "Famous Frenchmen". The others were Alexandre Dumas Père and Edouard Branly.

French Territory of the Afars and Issas (Djibouti)

Country of issue: French Territory of the Afars and Issas (Djibouti)
Date of issue: 12 October 1973
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Comment: One of 3 stamps celebrating Personalities with a link to medicine. Others were Jenner and Koch.

Germany

Country of issue: Germany
Date of issue: 12 January 1968
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Comment: One of 3 stamps marking Technology and Science.

Country of issue: Germany
Date of issue: 9 August 1979
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Comment: One of 3 stamps commemorating German Nobel Prize winners. The others were Otto Hahn and Albert Einstein.

Country of issue: Germany
Date of issue: 9 March 1995
Designer/artist:
Comment: Single stamp commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Roentgen

Country of issue: Germany
Date of issue: 10 December 1951
Designer/artist: Designer: Barth (?Ludwig Barth-Uchatzy). Engraver: Jan Piwczyk.
Comment: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize Award.

Country of issue: Germany
Date of issue: 14 August 1964
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Comment: One of a set of 3 stamps celebrating 1964 anniversaries in science and technology.

Guinea

Country of issue: Guinea
Date of issue: 20 February 2002
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Comment: Single stamp commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Award of the first Nobel Prize in Physics to Wilhelm Roentgen

Country of issue: Guinea
Date of issue: 20 February 2002
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Comment: One of a set of 4 minisheets celebrating 100 years of physices Nobel Prizes. Included in the set with Lorentz, Zeeman, Joseph Thomson, Lippman and Perrin.

Guinea-Bissau

Country of issue: Guinea-Bissau
Date of issue: 15 July 2005
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Comment: One of a set of 3 celebrating Nobel Prize winners in physics. The others are Niels Bohr and William Shockley.

Country of issue: Guinea-Bissau
Date of issue: 29 May 2009
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Comment: One of a set of 6 stamps commemorating Nobel Prizes awarded in 1905.

Country of issue: Guinea-Bissau
Date of issue: 23 November 2009
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Comment: One of a set of 6 stamps commemorating Nobel Prizes awarded between 1916 and 1918.

Country of issue: Guinea-Bissau
Date of issue: 23 November 2009
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Comment: One of a set of 4 stamps celebrating the 1914 Nobel Prize Awards.

Country of issue: Guinea-Bissau
Date of issue: 23 November 2009
Designer/artist:
Comment: One of a set of 4 stamps celebrating the 1915 Nobel Prize Awards.

Country of issue: Guinea-Bissau
Date of issue: 29 May 2009
Designer/artist:
Comment: Part of an issue of six stamps commemorating the first Nobel Prize in 1901.

India

Country of issue: India
Date of issue: 8 November 1995
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Comment: Single stamp commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Wilhelm Roentgen

Country of issue: India
Date of issue: 30 January 2014
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Comment: The stamp was released by M.S. Ramanujan, Chief Post Master General, Karnataka, at a function in Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

Indonesia

Country of issue: Indonesia
Date of issue: 1 March 2011
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Comment: One of 2 stamps marking the International Year of Chemistry.

Isle of Man

Country of issue: Isle of Man
Date of issue: 18 May 1983
Designer/artist: Design: Colleen Corlett. Printed in photogravure by Courvoisier
Comment: One of a set of 4 stamps commemorating the 150th Anniversary of King William's College.

Israel

Country of issue: Israel
Date of issue: 4 January 2011
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Comment: One of 2 stamps marking the International Year of Chemistry.

Country of issue: Israel
Date of issue: 3 Deccember 2013
Designer/artist: David Ben-Hador
Comment: Issued with a souvenir first day cover showing a range of minerals and gemstones to mark Philately Day 2013.

Italy

Country of issue: Italy
Date of issue: 2 May 1994
Designer/artist: L. Mezzana. Rotogravure print from IPZS Rome
Comment: One of a pair illustrating Italin Nobel Prize-winning scientists. The other is C. Golgi (Nobel Prize 1906).

Country of issue: Italy
Date of issue: 2 June 1995
Designer/artist: Anna Maria Maresca
Comment: Single stamp commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Roentgen

Country of issue: Italy
Date of issue: 31 August 2014
Designer/artist:
Comment: Cancellation issued on the opening day of the First European Crystallography School at University of Pavia.

Liechtenstein

Country of issue: Liechtenstein
Date of issue: 6 September 2004
Designer/artist: Bruno Kaufmann
Comment: One of a set of 4 stamps celebrating "Exact Sciences". The others were mathematics, physics, astronomy.

Country of issue: Liechtenstein
Date of issue: 1 September 2014
Designer/artist: Hans Peter Gassner
Comment: Set of 2 stamps celebrating the International Year of Crystallography.

Malawi

Country of issue: Malawi
Date of issue: 2011
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Comment: Produced in a sheet of 2 with Mendeleev, celebrating radioactivity

Malaysia

Country of issue: Malaysia
Date of issue: 29 May 1995
Designer/artist:
Comment: One of a set of 3 stamps commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Roentgen

Maldives

Country of issue: Maldives
Date of issue: 28 December 1995
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Comment: Series celebrating 100th Anniversary of Nobel Prize Trust Fund.

Mexico

Country of issue: Mexico
Date of issue: 8 May 1995
Designer/artist:
Comment: Single stamp commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Roentgen

Country of issue: Mexico
Date of issue: 18 November 2014
Designer/artist:
Comment: Issued to celebrate the International Year of Crystallography. Design features teh crystal structure of ice and a snowflake.

Monaco

Country of issue: Monaco
Date of issue: 24 October 1995
Designer/artist:
Comment: Single stamp commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Roentgen

Netherlands

Country of issue: Netherlands
Date of issue: 28 March 2011
Designer/artist:
Comment: One of a sheet of 10 stamps celebrating the 375th anniversary of Utrecht University.

Netherlands Antilles

Country of issue: Netherlands Antilles
Date of issue: 24 April 1975
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Comment: One of a set of 3 illustrating the Salt Industry.

New Zealand

Country of issue: New Zealand
Date of issue: 2 March 1959
Designer/artist: G. Bull and G. R. Smith
Comment: Issue of 3 stamps celebrating the centennial of the province of Marlborough.

Pakistan

Country of issue: Pakistan
Date of issue: 24 February 2012
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Comment: Set of four: "gems and minerals of Pakistan". features emerald, ruby, sapphire, peridot.

Peru

Country of issue: Peru
Date of issue: 3 July 2002
Designer/artist:
Comment: Part of an issue of three stamps depicting minerals and their crystal families. Featured: chalcopyrite; others: sphalerite, pyragyrite

Poland

Country of issue: Poland
Date of issue: 2014
Designer/artist: Zuzanna Pietralik
Comment: These stamps show a miniature sheet of four designs to celebrate International Year of Crystallography.

Portugal

Country of issue: Portugal
Date of issue: 21 July 2014
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Comment: A set of 5 stamps and a souvenir sheet issued to commemorate the International Year of Crystallography.

Republic of Korea

Country of issue: Republic of Korea
Date of issue: 8 November 1995
Designer/artist:
Comment: Single stamp commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Roentgen

Country of issue: Republic of Korea
Date of issue: 15 March 2006
Designer/artist:
Comment: One of an issue of 8 stamps celebrating the export industry.

Country of issue: Republic of Korea
Date of issue:
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Comment: Stamp shows W. C. Rontgen discover of X-rays

Country of issue: Republic of Korea
Date of issue:
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Comment: One of a set of 3 stamps designed by the Korean Crystallographic Association to commemorate IYCr2014.

Republic of Moldova

Country of issue: Republic of Moldova
Date of issue: 2014
Designer/artist: Gheorghe Plugaru
Comment: A set of four personalized stamps from Moldova Post celebrating IYCr2014.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Country of issue: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Date of issue: 25 November 1991
Designer/artist:
Comment: One of 8 stamps commemorating Nobel Prize Winners.

Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

Country of issue: Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Date of issue: 14 February 2014
Designer/artist: Igor Bencka
Comment: A protective layer shows additional detail under ultraviolet light. Issued on a commemorative first-day cover showing details of a crystal structure and marked with a cancellation stamp dedicated to Max von Laue.

Country of issue: Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Date of issue: 14 February 2014
Designer/artist: Adrian Ferda
Comment: Cancellation honouring Max von Laue issued on the occasion of the First Day Cover celebrating IYCr2014.

South Vietnam

Country of issue: South Vietnam
Date of issue: 1 August 1960
Designer/artist:
Comment: Stamp issue celebrating Anti-Tuberculosis Fund.

Spain

Country of issue: Spain
Date of issue: 13 July 2006
Designer/artist:
Comment: One of a set of 2 stamps illustrating Earth Sciences.

Country of issue: Spain
Date of issue: 3 April 1967
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Comment: Roentgen: Single stamp to mark the 1967 International Congress of Radiology in Barcelona.

Sweden

Country of issue: Sweden
Date of issue: 9 December 1961
Designer/artist: Stig Asberg / Engraver Arne Wallhorn
Comment: Stamp celebrating 1961 Nobel Prizewinners. Also issued in 20 öre (red) and 40 öre (blue) denominations.

Country of issue: Sweden
Date of issue: 10 December 1974
Designer/artist: Designer: Lennart Forsberg, Engraver: Arne Wallhorn
Comment: Issued as part of the continuing series celebrating Nobel Prize Winners.

Country of issue: Sweden
Date of issue: 24 November 1989
Designer/artist: Engraved by Martin Mörck after originals by Göran Österlund
Comment: Part of an issue of 4 stamps celebrating Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine.

Country of issue: Sweden
Date of issue: 10 December 1975
Designer/artist: Designer: Lennart Forsberg, Engraver: Arne Wallhorn
Comment: Issued as part of the continuing series celebrating Nobel Prize Winners.

Switzerland

Country of issue: Switzerland
Date of issue: 3 March 2011
Designer/artist: Danial Dreier/Barbara Pfander
Comment: Single stamp marking the International Year of Chemistry. The stamp has a three-dimensional effect. Owing to the multi-stage embossed printing procedure used, the vitamin C molecule appears to float in the air in front of a blue background.

Country of issue: Switzerland
Date of issue: 3 March 2014
Designer/artist: Design: Daniel Dreier; Photography: Thomas Schüpbach
Comment: An issue of two stamps depicting minerals (the other shows epidote) to mark the International Year of Crystallography.

Transkei

Country of issue: Transkei
Date of issue: 12 October 1984
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Comment: One of 4 stamps celebrating Famous People of Medicine. The others were Nicholas of Cusa, William Morton, Karl Landsteiner.

USSR

Country of issue: USSR
Date of issue: 28 January 1966
Designer/artist: V. Pimenov
Comment: One of a set of 3 marking International Scientific Congresses. The others were the 9th Microbiology and the 13th Poultry-raising congresses.

Country of issue: USSR
Date of issue: 3 September 1968
Designer/artist: N. Shevtsov
Comment: Single stamp issue commemorating 50th anniversary of N. S. Kurnakov Institute of Chemistry.

Ukraine

Country of issue: Ukraine
Date of issue: 2 February 1995
Designer/artist: R. Cessin
Comment: I. P. Puluj (1845-1918). One of a set of 3 "Personalities". Others were I. Y. Franko, Lesya Ukrainka.

United Kingdom

Country of issue: United Kingdom
Date of issue: 1 May 1840
Designer/artist: Charles Heath
Comment: World's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system.

Country of issue: United Kingdom
Date of issue: 2 March 1977
Designer/artist: Jerzy Karo
Comment: Part of an issue of 4 stamps celebrating British Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry, and marking the centenary of the Royal Institute of Chemistry.

Country of issue: United Kingdom
Date of issue: 5 September 1995
Designer/artist:
Comment: Sir Rowland Hill (1795-1879). Set of 4 stamps commemorating Pioneers of Communication; two show Hill, the other two Marconi.

Country of issue: United Kingdom
Date of issue: 6 August 1996
Designer/artist: Stephanie Nash, Michael Nash Associates
Comment: One of a series of 5 stamps honouring "20th Century Women of Achievement - Portraits of Genius"

Country of issue: United Kingdom
Date of issue: 2 October 2001
Designer/artist:
Comment: One of a set of 5 celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize.

Country of issue: United Kingdom
Date of issue: 25 February 2010
Designer/artist: Hat-trick Design; portrait © Science Museum/SSPL
Comment: Issued as one of 10 stamps celebrating 350 years of the Royal Society.

Country of issue: United Kingdom
Date of issue: 25 March 2014
Designer/artist: Stamp Design Royal Mail Group Ltd
Comment: Issued as one of a set of 10 stamps illustrating 'Remarkable Lives' - remarkable individuals from the realms of sport, design, economics, heroism, science and the arts, who were born in 1914.

United States

Country of issue: United States
Date of issue: 12 July 2004
Designer/artist:
Comment: This 2004 stamp honors inventor, architect, engineer, designer, geometrician, cartographer, and philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) on the 50th anniversary of his patent for the geodesic dome, his most famous invention.

Country of issue: United States
Date of issue: 5 October 2006
Designer/artist:
Comment: Set of four snowflake images.

Country of issue: United States
Date of issue:
Designer/artist: corbisimages
Comment: A personalized stamp from the US website www.zazzle.com

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