Started in 1999. 30th Edition, Dec. 2006 - Jan. 2007  

    In October 2006,  the Paintings and Arts on Stamps Internet Site, the largest and the oldest art on stamps site on the Internet, commemorated its 10th anniversary. Congratulation to all PASIC members and many thanks to all our visitors! Here two recent comments, one coming from Australia and the other one from India:

    - Spending some time today looking through your site I can only say well done, brilliant and thank you for the effort.
    - As always it is an inspiration which has led me to the fascinating twin worlds of stamps and art.

    The number of Paintings and Arts on Stamps Internet Club members, coming from 83 countries, has grown to 804 participants.

   New pages, that were added recently, cover such interesting subjects as: Joint issue France-Romania, The first art stamp, Joint flower painting issue China - Liechtenstein, The French Raphael folder, Sculptures from tree forms (FL), Joint issue of Vatican and Switzerland, dedicated to the Swiss Papal Guard 500th anniversary.

    The site was moved in November 2005 to a more appropriate domain name: ArtOnStamps.org and to a new server, that is faster and that is located nearer to the most of our visitors.

    We have extended the usage of our principal asset, the free Art on Stamps database. Thanks to our member Jose Nascimento from Portugal, you can download for free the Feb. 2005 version) of the Art on Stamps database system (Resources tab, Download Free Databases). A newer version will be uploaded soon.

     Jose Nascimento also updated in Feb. - Mar. 2006 the Paintings and Arts on Stamps Database (in Excel format), by using data about Rembrandt paintings that he got from Pieter Broekema from The Netherlands and own research on former USSR countries (275 new records, 229 updated records).

. We thanks them both for the wonderful work! At time we list in the database 26899 stamps and 3004 miniature sheets. We are searching for Editors who are interested to extend this database in their domain of expertise.

    Thanks to Pieter Broekema we offer for free downloading a PDF file that lists and displays all Rembrandt related stamps that appeared between 1930 and 2005. Thanks you, Pieter!

    The on-line database (Resources tab, Query Online) is again functional.

    Don't hesitate to take two interesting polls on art on stamps and compare your preferences to those of other visitors. For more information please click the links listed under the Resources tab in the menu Take a Poll on...).

   An interesting article about this site, signed by Bill Sharpe, appeared on a half of a page in the December 2004 edition of the prestigious philatelic magazine Linn's. Click here to read it.

   The Paintings and Arts on Stamps Discussion Forum was momentarily closed, due to the transfer to a new domain name and to a new server.

   I would like to thank all PASIC members and to all visitors of the Paintings and Arts on Stamps Internet Site for their interest, fidelity and encouragements (some of them have been published under the Misc tab, Feedback Received).

Victor Manta
Philatelic Web Publisher, AIJP

At Belle Orpondia, in December 2006

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