Sweden: EUROPA 2024 - "Underwater Flora and Fauna"

This year, the Post of Sweden issued three stamps as a souvenir sheet (very expensive; almost 10 €) for this years EUROPA theme, with only one stamp bearing the EUROPA logo. Thank you Henrik for sending me two of the three stamps on cover. Still looking for the missing third stamp with the logo.

 

Stamp:

EUROPA 2024 - "Underwater Flora and Fauna" (from a set of 3) - Issued: 25-04-2024

 

Stamp:

EUROPA 2024 - "Underwater Flora and Fauna" (from a set of 3) - Issued: 25-04-2024

Sweden: Swedish Football

Stamps:

Swedish Football (from a set of 6) - Issued: 26-03-2004

Many thanks to Henrik!

Sweden: EUROPA 2023 - "Peace - the highest value of humanity"

 To note the "Aid for Ukraine" maschine cancellation on the Cover.

Stamp:

EUROPA 2023 - "Peace - the highest value of humanity" - Issued: 27-04-2023

Many thanks to Henrik!

Sweden: The 100th Anniversary of the Swedish Sports Federation

 

Stamps:

The 100th Anniversary of the Swedish Sports Federation (full set) - Issued: 20-01-2003

Many thanks to Henrik!

Sweden: EUROPA 2022 - "Stories & Myths”

 

Stamp:

EUROPA 2022 - "Stories & Myths” - Issued: 28-04-2022

Many thanks to Henrik!

Sweden: The 350th Anniversary of Lund University

Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is a public research university in Sweden and one of northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden. It traces its roots back to 1425, when a Franciscan studium generale was founded in Lund. After Sweden won Scania from Denmark in the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde, the university was officially founded in 1666 on the location of the old studium generale next to Lund Cathedral.

Lund University has nine faculties, with additional campuses in the cities of Malmö and Helsingborg, with around 44,000 students in 270 different programmes and 1,400 freestanding courses. The university has 640 partner universities in nearly 70 countries and it belongs to the League of European Research Universities as well as the global Universitas 21 network. Lund University is consistently ranked among the world's top 100 universities.

Alumni and faculty of Lund University are associated with, among other things: four Nobel Prizes, a Fields Medal, the creation of the first implantable pacemaker, the development of echocardiography, the spread of modern physiotherapy, the discovery of the role of dopamine as an independent neurotransmitter, the determination of the number of chromosomes of man, the establishment of osseointegration, the development of the Bluetooth technology, and the development of the modern-day medical ventilator.

Stamp:

The 350th Anniversary of Lund University (m/s) - Issued: 10-11-2016

 

Many thanks to Henrik!
 

Sweden: Öland

Öland is Sweden's second largest island, only Gotland is larger and of more importance. It lies in the Baltic Sea just off the coast of Småland, connected to the mainland by a bridge from Kalmar. Öland is popular among domestic tourists, many Swedes have had a summer cottage here for generations. Öland can be crowded by vacationers from Midsummer to mid-August. 

Stamp:

Domestic saltwater fish species (from a set of 5) - Issued: 03-05-2018

Sweden: Greta Thunberg and Nature Conservation

 

Stamps:

Greta Thunberg, Nature Conservation (from a set of 5) - Issued: 14-01-2021

Many thnaks to Henrik!

Sweden: EUROPA 2019 "National Birds"

Stamp:
EUROPA 2019 (m/s) - Issued: 09-05-2019


Many thanks to Henrik!

Sweden: Return-to-Sender from Kiruna

This one was an experiment I made, because I wanted to check if it works. I set up this cover myself and send it "Poste Restante" to Kiruna in northern Sweden. Kiruna is the northernmost town in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland. It had 18,148 inhabitants in 2010 and is the seat of Kiruna Municipality (population: 23,099 in 2008) in Norrbotten County. Due to Kiruna's position north of the Arctic Circle the city experiences both midnight sun and polar night throughout the year as well as a very cold climate by Scandinavian standards. I send the cover from Bielefeld, Germany on March, 23th and it came back on May, 28th 2016.

Stamps:
Comics "Asterix" (from a set of three) - Issued: 01-09-2015


Kiruna: ♁ 67°51′N 0 20°13′ E

Sweden: Luleå

Luleå is a city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. The city is located about 110 km south of the Arctic Circle and has about 47,000 inhabitants. Luleå has the seventh biggest harbor in Sweden for shipping goods. It has a large steel industry and is a center for extensive research. Luleå University of Technology is Sweden’s first technology university and the northernmost university in Sweden.

The Gammelstad Church Town in Luleå is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Stamp:
King Carl XVI and Queen Silvia (from a set of two) - Issued: 15-01-2015 with Priority label


Thanks to Anna for this nice card!