POSTEUROP has announced that Armenia and Slovenia issued the Most Beautiful Europa Bird stamps in 2019.

The public online vote, which polled a record 25,000-plus votes, selected the Armenia stamp as the most beautiful, followed by Turkey, and Finland. The jury vote however, comprising six philatelic experts, preferred the stamp from Slovenia, with secondly Liechtenstein, and Finland again third.

This year’s Europa stamp theme is ‘Ancient Postal Routes’; in 2021 and 2022 the themes will be ‘Endangered National Wildlife’ and ‘Stories and Myths’ respectively.