Pošta Slovenije d.o.o.

Date of issue: 04.11.2016
Author: Barbara Filipčič, Žiga Okorn
Motive: Front Door
Printed by: Oriental Security Printing Solutions, Bahrain
Printing Process and Layout: 4-colour offset in self-adhesive sheets of 50 stamps and self-adhesive booklets of 12 stamps
Paper: Booklet: 100 g/m2 self-adhesive
Size: 35.00 x 26.00 mm
Perforation: Serpentine die cut

Christmas Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar Various tales and stories circulate about the Three Kings or Wise Men, Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar. The Gospel of Matthew notes that they came to Jerusalem from afar, from the East, to pay homage to the newborn Jesus. Their way was shown to them by the comet over Bethlehem. In Jerusalem they were supposedly received by King Herod, who persuaded them to report back the place of Jesus’s birth. But with a warning from God this did not happen, and the Kings returned to their lands, far from Herod, by another route. It was not until three centuries after Jesus’s birth that the 25th of December was established as his day of birth. Originally 25 December was also the beginning of the year, and it was not until 1691 that 1 January was designated as the beginning of the year, by Pope Innocent XII. Originally the main – and only – holiday marking the Christmas period was Christ’s Manifestation or epiphany. Three events were combined in the holiday: the homage of the Three Kings, Jesus’s baptism in the River Jordan, and the wedding in Cana in Galilee. The Eastern Church retained the holiday of Jesus’s birth on 6 January. In Slovenia the Feast of the Magi (the Three Kings) was marked by visits of carol singers, who originated in medieval worship, and their costumes and presence spread far through the practices of schoolchildren in the 16th and 17th centuries. Prof. Janez Bogataj

Date of issue: 13.11.2020
Author: Marko Prah
Motive: New Year A – Gift and Greeting booklet
Printed by: Oriental Security Printing Solutions, Bahrain
Printing Process and Layout: 4-colour offset in self-adhesive sheets of 50 stamps and self-adhesive booklets of 12 stamps
Paper: self-adhesive, 100 g/m2
Size: 26.00 x 35.00 mm
Perforation: Serpentine die cut
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Date of issue: 04.11.2016
Author: Saša Žagar
Motive: Grandfather Frost
Printed by: Oriental Security Printing Solutions, Bahrain
Printing Process and Layout: 4-colour offset in self-adhesive sheets of 50 stamps and self-adhesive booklets of 12 stamps
Paper: Booklet: 100 g/m2 self-adhesive
Size: 26.00 x 35.00 mm
Perforation: Serpentine die cut
Illustration: Saša Žagar

Date of issue: 06.11.2015
Author: PrviPogled
Motive: Chimney Sweep
Printed by: Cartor Security Printing S.A., France
Printing Process and Layout: 4-colour offset in self-adhesive sheets of 50 stamps and self-adhesive booklets of 12 stamps
Paper: 247 g/m2 self-adhesive
Size: 26.00 x 35.00 mm
Perforation: Serpentine die cut

Date of issue: 09.11.2018
Author: Zadruga traparij
Motive: New Year's Fir
Printed by: Agencija za komercijalnu djelatnost d.o.o., Zagreb, Croatia
Printing Process and Layout: 4-colour offset in self-adhesive sheets of 50 stamps and self-adhesive booklets of 12 stamps
Paper: 100 g/m2 self-adhesive
Size: 26.00 x 35.00 mm
Perforation: Serpentine die cut