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

United Arab Emirates: Airmail labels

These were sent to me from the United Arab Emirates. I never seen these labels on letters before, but I'm assuming they are the current ones as they are self-adhesive. They are from a pad, with strips of 12 labels.

Year: ?, Self-Adhesive.

South Africa: Airmail labels

These labels come on a pad, with 10 labels on a strip. I'm not sure how many are on a pad as mine is not complete, but I think it is 100. The design is current.

Year: ?, Gummed.


Close-up:

Lithuania: priority labels

This is the design currently used in Lithuania. They come on a roll.

Received in 2010.

Year: ?, Self-Adhesive.

December 28, 2010

Cook Islands: Older Airmail label

This is an older airmail label from Cook Islands. The label is from the island Rarotonga, which according to Wikipedia is the most populous island.

Year: 1987?, Self-Adhesive.


Nowadays the Cook Islands doesn't have their own airmail label, instead they use the same ones as New Zealand.

Switzerland: Priority labels

I recently traded with someone over at postcrossing and they sent me some different labels from Switzerland. :)

Year: 2006, Gummed.           Year: 2008, Gummed.
     

They are both from pads and come in strips of 10 labels.
This last label is from a stamp booklet.

Year: 2008?, Self-Adhesive.