First official Slovene stamps

As mentioned in previous entry the first Slovene stamp was issued in June 26^th 1991. Unfortunately the stamp was not issued in accordance with the rules of Universal Postal Union, UPU. Therefore it was removed from the circulation for a while. The first Slovene stamps issued in accordance with the rules of UPU were available on December 26^th 1991. 

Below you can see pictures of them.

   

The first Slovene stamp

Slovenia declared independency on June 25^th 1991. The next day we already had the first Slovene stamp. It had an interesting theme – vision of the parliament as it was seen in the eyes of great Slovene architect Joze Plecnik.

For a while the stamp had to be removed from the circulation (the stamp was not issued in accordance with the rules of Universal Postal Union, UPU and Slovenia was not yet a part of the Universal Postal Union). In October 1991 the stamp was once again valid and put to circulation.