January 5, 2011

Hong Kong: Airmail and Express labels

I traded with someone over at postcrossing and they sent me labels from Hong Kong and Macau.

Year: 2001, Self-Adhesive.


Year: ?, Self-Adhesive.


The express labels come in sheets of 4 labels.

Taiwan: Airmail, Express and Other

Labels from Taiwan. As far as I understand these are the ones currently used.

Year: ?, Gummed.          Year: ?, Gummed.        Year: ?, Gummed.
                

January 3, 2011

Ireland: Stamp Booklet

These labels were kindly sent to my by Evaldas from the myairmaillabels blog.

The labels are currently also used in Ireland. They come from a stamp booklet of international stamps. 10 in total. As you can see they are much smaller in size then the other current labels I have posted from Ireland.

Year: ?, Self-Adhesive.

Switzerland: Older labels

Some older labels from 'Swissair'.
According to Wikipedia:

"Swissair AG (Swiss Air Transport Company Limited, Schweizerische Luftverkehr) was the former national airline of Switzerland.
It was formed from a merger between Balair and Ad Astra Aero (To the Stars), in 1931. For most of its 71 years, Swissair was one of the major international airlines and known as the "Flying Bank" due to the financial stability of the airline, causing it to be regarded as a Swiss national symbol and icon. It was headquartered at Zurich Airport in Klote."


The airline was founded in 1931 and ceased operations in 2002.

I'm pretty sure the labels are from the 1960's. They all look to be from a pad.

Year: ?, Gummed.            Year: ?, Gummed.                        Year: ?, Gummed.
          

January 1, 2011

Sweden: Older labels

Some older labels from Sweden.

Package label:
Year: ?, Self-adhesive.


Labels from a roll.
Year: ?, Self-adhesive.


And the next labels from a label booklet. I'm pretty sure mine is not complete. It currently holds 20 labels, 10 on each sheet.



Year: 1990, Gummed.


Text from inside the booklet:


"Foreign airmail
Use these labels when you have paid a special air postage.
Put the label on the left of the envelope when using.

NOTE!
Aerograms to the whole world as well as letters and postcards to European countries do not need to be provided with flights label"

December 29, 2010

Cyprus: Airmail and Express labels

These are the labels currently used. They both come in sheets of 36 labels.

Year: ?, Self-Adhesive.                Year: ?, Self-Adhesive.
              

The express labels were really hard to get a nice scan of. The bright red in the labels kinda overtook everything in the scan. As you can see the black text looks very faint. It doesn't look like that in real life.

Lithuania: Older labels

Some older labels from Lithuania. They come on a roll.

Year: 1994, Self-Adhesive.
LIT-A-8