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This set closed a chapter in the history of Cyprus stamps that did not portray the island's soul, traditions and alues. It was a period where the ideal was everything British and more over that of the King or Queen. In the stamps of this period there…

Low Cost Housing

Scout Emblem

The loss of any one of our senses can have serious repercussions in the quality of life of a person afflic ted by the loss, but blindness, the lack of the sense of sight, deprives one of the miraculous beauties of God ’s creation and plunges one…

Association with European Economic Community

Archangel Michael. The 15m. stamp is an icon representing the Great Deesis in the uppermost zone of the iconostasis. The icons is dated to the year 1544 and attributed to the hand of Joseph Houris. They remind one of the Palaeologue style and…

10th Anniversary of U.N. World Food
Programme

Handicrafts

Archangel Gabriel. The icon illustrated in this issue derives from the iconostasis of the Katholikon from the monastery of St.Neophytos, near Paphos. The 15m. stamp represents the Great Deesis in the uppermost zone of the iconostasis.The icon is …

The story of Cyprus Airways, the National Airline, is one of birth, devastation, resurgence and success reliable airlines operating the most technically advanced aircraft. Its emblem is the stylized Moufflon of Cyprus. It began operations in 1948…