Miniature Sheets
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Miniature Sheets
Description
A miniature sheet or souvenir sheet is a small group of postage stamps still attached to the sheet on which they were printed. They may be either regular issues that happen to be printed in small groups, or special issues often commemorating some event.
Collection Items
Miniature Sheet - Antigua and Barbuda - 2000
This miniature sheet was issued to commemorate the turn of the millennium in general and achievements and events of the second half of the 13th century in particular. The sheet features seventeen stamps and seventeen events with a short description…
Miniature Sheet - Grenada Grenadines - 2000
This miniature sheet was issued to commemorate the turn of the millennium in general and achievements and events of the first half of the 14th century in particular. The sheet features seventeen stamps and seventeen events with a short description of…
Miniature Sheet - Guinea - 2002
This miniature sheet features nine paintings by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) and is part of a much larger series of seventy-two stamps celebrating European painters. The stamps on this sheet reproduce the following…
Miniature Sheet - Italy - 2009
The Italy miniature sheet features five stamps with adjacent labels. In the left margin are logos for the 2009 Festival Internazionale della Filatelia (International Festival of Philately) and Poste Italiane; in the right margin is a barcode and the…
Miniature Sheet - Guinea - 2013
This miniature sheet commemorates the 150th anniversary of the death of the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863). The 2013 Guinean postage stamp featuring the artist's painting The Barque of Dante is surrounded by a reinterpretation of…
Miniature Sheet - Monaco - 2015
This miniature sheet celebrates the 750th anniversary of Dante's birth. The sheet contains six of the 2015 Monaco Dante stamps designed by Laure Fissore. The margin text is as follows: "2015"; "Principatu de Mùnegu" (Principality of Monaco); and…
Miniature Sheet - Sovereign Military Order of Malta - 2014
This miniature sheet was issued by Poste Magistrali, the postal arm of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), a sovereign, Roman Catholic order of chivalry. The set is SMOM issue number 472, "Capolavori della letteratura" (masterpieces of…
Miniature Sheet - Guinea - 1990
This miniature sheet, designed by Jean-Louis Puvilland, was issued by Guinea as part of a series celebrating the 1990 FIFA World Cup held in Italy. The sheet shows the Italsat satellite, St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, and the Arch of Peace in…
Miniature Sheet - Kyrgyzstan - 2015
This miniature sheet shows Henry Holiday's 1884 painting Dante and Beatrice. Along the top is "750 лет со дня рождения Данте Алигьери / 750th Birth Anniversary of Dante Alighieri"; vertically, along the right side, is "Генри Холидей. Данте и Беатриче…
Miniature Sheet - Umm al-Quwain - 1972
Miniature sheets were issued for the entire set of 35 Umm al-Quwain Divina commedia stamps but they are difficult to find.
Miniature Sheet - Central African Republic - 2016
This miniature sheet commemorates the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863). The sheet featues four of the artist's paintings:La Liberté guidant le peuple (1830)
Chevaux arabes combattant dans une écurie (1860)
Dernières paroles de…
Miniature Sheet - São Tomé and Príncipe - 1983
Raphael's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament is printed across the bottom of this miniature sheet. Dante is depicted in the fresco near the right side just behind the standing figure in yellow robes.
Miniature Sheet - Solomon Islands - 2017
This miniature sheet is one of an extensive series depicting "Masters of Renaissance" and their works. While there is no Dante stamp in the series, he is depicted in sculpture, with Francesco Petrarca, on the miniature sheet for the Raphael stamp.…
Miniature Sheet - Central African Republic - 2011
This miniature sheet shows Michelangelo's fresco The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. Dante is barely visible in the upper right quarter (circled here in green). The sheet was printed by Stamperija, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Miniature Sheet - Central African Republic - 2011
This miniature sheet shows Michelangelo's fresco The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. Dante is barely visible in the upper right quarter (circled here in green). The stamp on the sheet is a detail from the same fresco showing Christ and Mary. The…
Miniature Sheet - Vatican City - 2009
Vatican City issued this miniature sheet to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Raphael's fresco Disputation of the Holy Sacrament. Dante is depicted in the fresco in the lower right quarter (circled here in green). The miniature sheet has text as…
Miniature Sheet - Liechtenstein - 2021
Designed by Thomas Giger. Printed by Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé, Haarlem, Netherlands.
Miniature Sheet - Uruguay - 2021
This miniature sheet shows Sandro Botticelli's fifteenth-century portrait now in the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny, Switzerland. Printed by Sanfer S.R.L. (Montevideo, Uruguay).