The Swiss postal service, La Poste, bissued the Basel Carnival commemorative stamp 5 January 2009. You can order them online, in English. Great for collectors, or even as easy gifts for non-philatelists: these are particularly charming stamps. Background story on GenevaLunch
Posted by Marie Joséphine Guillet on 4 January 2010 at 20:50, last updated on 25 January 2012 at 17:41 | permalink
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News story, GenevaLunch, 4 January 2010.
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