New Issues 2002

This page collects only issues released during the year 2002.  For issues to come (announced) see the latest information.

As it is not such obvious as it looks to find this information, this list is probably not yet complete. In certain countries, joint issues are often announced on the day of the issue and sometimes it takes months before this information and the corresponding stamps reach us. Data on missing issues or supplementary information, particularly for countries, which are producing joint issues exceptionally, will be highly appreciated.

This page was updated the last time on January 20, 2003.

2002 (8 January)
Australia - Christmas Islands
Year of the horse. Territorial joint issue
Two stamps and a souvenir sheet for Christmas Island - two prestamped envelopes for Australia - FDCs

2002 (5 February)
China - Malaysia
Rare flowers from both countries. Twin issue.
Two identical stamps. Cannonball Tree flower or bunga peluru meriam (Couroupita guianensis), Malaysian flower and B, Golden Camellia (Camelia nitidissima), China.
2 stamps per country (Malaysia issued also a third stamp and a miniature sheet) - FDCs - Mixed FDCs

2002 (6 February)
Antigua and Barbuda (11 February) - Cayman Island ()- Dominica (6 February) - Gambia (6 February) - Georgia (?) - Grenada () - Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique () - Guyana (6 February) - Kiribati (24 January ?) - Lesotho () - Liberia (6 February) - Marshall Islands (11 February) - Micronesia (20 February) - Mongolia (?) - Nevis (26 August) Palau (?) - Saint Vincent () - Sierra Leone (6 February) - Togo () - Tuvalu (?) - Zambia (11 February)
United we stand - September 11 commemoration. Statue of Liberty wrapped in US flag and flag of the country. Multi-colored. Omnibus series.
Different designs: Guinea (11 February)

2002 (6 February)
Ascension - Bahamas - Barbados - Belize - Bermuda - British Antarctic Territories - British Indian Ocean Territories - Cayman Islands - Falkland Island - Gibraltar - Jamaica - Maldives - Nauru - Niuafo'ou - Norfolk - Papua New Guinea - Pitcairn - Saint Lucia - South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands - Saint Helena - Solomon Islands - Swaziland - Tokelau - Tonga - Tristan da Cunha - Virgin Islands
Queen Elisabeth II Golden Jubilee. Omnibus series.
Four diferent stamps also included in a souvenir sheet containing a fifth stamp. This fifth stamp representing a 1995 portrait of Queen Elisabeth II painted by Annigoni is identical for all countries.
Other countries, same date, different design: Great Britain, Isle of Man, Alderney.

2002 (4 April)
Australia - France
Expeditions of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders 200th Anniversary. 2 stamps per country. Different stamps. Joint issue.
Stamps - FDCs - mixed pochette with mint stamps - mixed FDCs

2002 (11 April)
Chile (11 April) - Poland (3 July)
200th birth anniversary of Ignacy Domeyko (1802-1889), Polish patriot and scientist having spent 50 years in Chile. Portrait. Joint issue.
Identical stamps - FDCs.

2002 (18 April)
Kyrgyzstan (18 April) - Pakistan (25 May)
10th anniversary of the diplomatic relationship. Joint issue.
Identical stamps. Flags from both countries, eagle.
Stamps - FDCs

2002 (23 April)
Croatia - Czech Republic (23 April)
Vlaho Bukovac (1855-1922), Croatian painter. Twin issue.
One common stamp showing the painting "Divan" (1905).
One stamp per country - Sheetlet of 4 stamps with two labels - FDCs

2002 (23 April)
Anguilla (11 October or 11 November) - Bolivia (24 April) - Costa-Rica (23 April) - Honduras () - Mexico (2 December) - Peru (1 June)- Saint Vincent () - Salvador ()
100th anniversary of the Panamerican Heath Organization (OPS). Twin issue (?)
One stamp per country, identical. To be completed

2002 (27 April)
Argentina (27 April) - Brazil (5 May) - France (27 April) - Germany (2 May) - Italy (29 November) - Uruguay (21 May)
Soccer World Championship; Participants are all former winners of the Soccer
World Championship (except Great Britain that declined to participate to this joint issue). Twin issue.
One common stamp, round, showing the flags of all 7 countries and a soccer
playground; the second stamp is different for each country and shows a game
situation involving the local soccer players.
2 stamps per country - FDCs - France: 15 pairs in a sheet, but also sheetlets of 5 pairs - mixed document proposed by the German postal administration.

2002 (2 May)
New Zealand - Sweden
Swedish glass and Maori handcraft art. Twin issue.
Identical stamps. Glass vase "rain forest" designed by Marie Simberg-Höglund; basket made of New Zealand flax.
Stamps - FDCs - mixed FDCs

2002 (16 May)
China - HongKong - Macau
Participation of the Chinese team in the 2002 Soccer World Cup - Siamese issue.
Each country issued two different stamp that were taken together in a common souvenir sheet.
Two stamps per country (China stamps are round) - souvenir sheet - FDCs

2002 (19 May)
Canada - Hong Kong
Corals. Twin issue.
Four identical stamps. Corals from Canadian and Hong Kong deep waters. Multi-colored.
4 stamps per country - souvenir sheet - FDCs - mixed FDCs

2002 (6 June)
Czech Republic - Germany
Endangered species - Fresh water pearl oysters. Joint issue.
1 stamp per country, different - FDCs

2002 (14 June)
Ascension - Falkland Islands - Saint Helena
20th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland islands. Joint issue.
Stamps are different. Different scenes of the conflict.
Stamps and FDCs

2002 (27 June)
Malaysia - Singapore
Birds. Twin issue.
4 stamps per country - FDCs - mixed FDC

2002 (1 July)
Grenada - Sierra Leone
The Legacy of Chiune Sugihara. Portraits. Multi-colored. Joint issue.
Souvenir sheet containing 4 identical stamps, different for each country - FDCs.

2002 (12 July)
Belgium - Portugal
Fila Kortijk 2002. Mills. Twin issue
2 stamps per country - FDCs - mixed FDC - Belgian Numisletter

2002 (13 July)
Belgium - Croatia
Fila Kortijk 2002. Lace. Twin issue
2 stamps per country - FDCs - mixed FDC

2002 (18 July)
Laos - Vietnam
Friendship and cooperation treaty 25th anniversary; Diplomatic relations 40th anniversary. Joint issue.
Different stamps. Laos, music instruments and portrait of leaders; Vietnam, buildings in the two countries, bird, flags.
Stamps - FDCs

2002 (5 August)
Ascension - Bahamas - Bermuda - British Antarctic Territories - British Indian Ocean Territories - British Virgin Islands - Caymans - Falkland - Nauru - Pitcairn - Saint Helena - Saint Lucia - Seychelles - Solomon Islands - South Georgia and South Sanwich Islands - Tokelau - Tristan da Cunha
Omnibus series in honour of Her Majesty Queen Mother Elisabeth. Two to four stamps and a souvenir sheet including two stamps (in some cases two of the sheet stamps). Same style, different pictures. Multi-colored.

2002 (6 August)
Australia - Thailand
50 years of diplomatic relations. Twin issue.
Identical stamps and miniature sheets containing the same stamps. Waterlilies; Nymphaea immutabilis, northern Australian waterlily, Nelumbo nucifer, an aquatic perrenial native to northern Australia, Papua New Guinea and South East Asia.
2 stamps - one miniature sheet - FDCs - stamp packs - mixed stamp packs - mixed FDCs

2002 (26 August)
Antigua and Barbuda - Grenada - Liberia
100th anniversary of the Teddy Bear. Souvenir sheet in form of a Teddy Bear containing 4 different stamps, different for each country. Omnibus series. Multi-colored.

2002 (29 August)
Kazakhstan - Russia
Fauna - Rare birds. Twin issue
Great Black-Headed Gull Larus ichthyateus pallas - Demoiselle Crane Anthropoides virgo
2 stamps se-tenant - sheetlets of 4 pairs - FDC

2002 (30 August)
Italy - United Nations (Geneva - New-York - Vienna)
World heritage - Twin issue
Identical stamps - Pisa and the Aeolian islands (Italy and Geneva). These stamps are also reproduced in the booklets at lower denomination issued by the two other offices (New Vork and Vienna)
2 stamps - FDCs - mixed covers - booklets

2002 (6 September)
Kazakhstan - Ukraine
Endangered species - Twin issue
Identical stamps - Black Sea Beluga (Huso huso ponticus) and Caspian Seal (Phoca caspica)
2 se-tenant stamps and booklets of 4 pairs - FDCs

2002 (18 September)
New Caledonia - Norfolk
Whales. Marine connections. Twin issue.
Identical stamps. Pair of two stamps se-tenant separated with a vignette.
2 stamps - FDCs

2002 (23 September)
Denmark (25 September) - Feroe Island (23 September) - Groenland (21 October)
International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES). Joint issue.
Two different stamps per country, however all six stamps are reproduced on a common souvenir sheet but only the specified countries have their name printed and are perforated; Denmark: boat and fishes; fishes and lighthouse of Hirthals; Faeroes: island and fishes; boat "Magnus Heinason" and fishes; Greenland: iceberg and Greenland shark; F, exploration boat "Paamiut" and fishes.
2 stamps and a souvenir sheet containing both stamps per country - FDCs

2002 (5 October)
Sweden - Thailand
Buildings. Twin issue.
Two identical stamps. Dusit Maha Prasat Throne Hall; Royal Castel (Kungliga Slottet) Stockholm
2 stamps - FDCs

2002 (10 October)
United States
The Hannukah stamp issued previously on 22 October 1996 with a denomination of 32¢ and later with increasing values (8 October 1999, 33¢, 19 October 2001, 34¢) is reissued on October 10, 2002 with a value of 37¢.

2002 (12 October)
China - Slovakia
Castels. Castel in China and Castel of Bojnice (Slovakia). Twin issue.
2 stamps - FDCs - mixed FDC

2002 (20 November)
China - South Korea
2002 - The year of people's exchange between the Republic of Korea and the People's Republic of China. Twin issue.
Korea's martial art Taekwondo and China's martial art Wushu. Multi-colored
Two identical stamps - FDCs

2002 (21 November)
New Zealand - Vatican
Christmas. Nativity scene, crib. Twin issue.
Identical stamps - FDCs - mixed FDC.

2002 (5 December)
Hungary - Turkey
Relationship. Twin issue (?)
Identical stamps (?). Two stamps se-tenant in a souvenir sheet. Mosque of the XVIth century at Pecs; Rackoczi house

2002 (15 December)
Brazil - Iran
100th anniversary of the Brazil - Iran Diplomatic Relationship. Twin issue.
Artisanat, pots.
Two identical stamps - FDCs

2002 (21 December)
South Korea - Vietnam
Tenth anniversary of the Korea - Vietnam Diplomatic Relationship. Twin issue
Two identical stamps. Pagodas: One Pillar (Mot Cot) Pagoda in Hanoi (Vietnam); Dabo Pagoda, east to the Daewoongjeon (Main Hall) of the Bulguk Temple in Gyeongju city (South Korea). Multi-colored.
2 stamps per country - FDCs