February 1, 2022 starts the Year of the Tiger and we can look forward to some stunning stamps. I’ve been waiting all year for this catstravaganza! Yes, my little cat sole is so excited. The Lunar New Year seems to bring out the best designs from around the world and I suspect this year’s tiger theme will not disappoint. 

Keep in mind, this is a work in progress. There is no tight schedule for any of the tiger releases. You’ll have to keep coming back to see any new additions. The last Ox stamp from 2021, didn’t make an appearance until November, so this is a year long project. Not that I’m complaining. I already love what I’m seeing. 

So, enjoy the Year of the Tiger. It’s going to be a good year for cat fans. If you’d like to receive notification when new stamps are posted to this page, sign up for my newsletter. (Use the handy box on the home page). Newsletters go out Sunday evening eastern standard time.   

Cheers,

Catpaw

Year of the Tiger – 2022 stamps from around the world

A – B  Year of the Tiger

Åland

1 stamp on souvenir sheet, maxicard, cancel, zodiac year pack (with FDC)

Artist: Martin Mörck
Calligraphy: Ruizhen Liu

Date of Issue: Oct. 20, 2021

Antigua and Barbuda

6 stamps on souvenir sheet

Release date: April, 2022

Armenia

1 stamp, sheet of 8

Designer: Rem Saakyan

Release date: December 23, 2021

Azerbaijan 

2 stamps on a souvenir sheet

Release date: March 2022

Belarus

Second image shows security mark

1 stamp, sheet of 6, FDC, cancel
offset

Artist: Victor Chaichuk
Designer: Yauheniya Biadonik with the assistance of the Republican Institute of Confucius China Studies of the Belarusian State University

Release date: January 18, 2022

Bulgaria

Happy Chinese New Year 2022 – Winemaking & Year of the Tiger

1 stamp, souvenir sheet of 4
See the souvenir sheet margins for Year of the Tiger motifs

Designer: P. Markova

Release date: December 11, 2021

C    

China

2 stamps, FDC, cancel

Designer: Wang Huming
Huming is the Art Director of the Postage Stamp Printing Bureau of China Post. He designed Jersey’s 2021 Year of the Ox stamps

Release date: October 27, 2021
FDC release date: January 5, 2022

Guoyun Changlong & Huyun Jixiang

2 stamps, FDC, cancel, 2 sheets of 6
offset lithography

This is the 42nd year China has issued a Lunar New Year stamp, with the first issued 1980

… Feng has been drawing tigers since he was young. At that time, due to lack of publications, he often took bus to a zoo for observation and had narrowly escaped from tigers several times. He is a national first-class painter, an expert enjoying the special allowance of the State Council and also the president of the Artists Association in Liaoning Province. 

“Animals also have happiness and sorrow, so the painting of the tiger needs to break the code, break through its animal nature to convey a spiritual emotion,” Feng said. “Paying attention to portraying the spirits of the tiger also coincides with the cultural connotation of the zodiac tiger.” Zodiac stamps for Year of Tiger spark controversy for lacking vigor, strength – Global Times

Designer: Feng Dazhong

Feng’s art name is ‘”Fuhu Caotang Zhuren” (the owner of the crouching tiger humble cottage)’

According to Feng, if the picture you paint is not to convey the life felt by the painter then it is purely a game of ink. What he wants to convey is not the exquisite brushwork but real life and his own feelings. The relationship between man and nature is what Chinese art wants to convey, and the painter sets up the channel for dialogue between one’s mind and nature. Feng’s landscape painting does not pursue the extraordinary form but hides in the environment, and this is the so-called “unity of heaven and man,” the core of Chinese traditional culture.
Chinese artist Feng Dazhong combines elaborate and impressionistic styles, tradition and innovation in his landscape and bird-and-flower paintings – Global Times 

Release date: January 5, 2022

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1 special cover

This is a collaborative cover by calligrapher Rong Tie and well known stamp designer Wang Huming. They used Feng Dazhong artwork to create this special cover. 

壬寅年》特种邮票首日封由著名书画家、篆刻家容铁与著名邮票设计家王虎鸣联袂设计。首日封正面左方图案是一对蓄势待发的幼虎，系冯大中创作的图稿。王虎鸣在设计上是高手，容铁在篆刻上颇有成就。如此强大的阵容来设计一枚首日封，还很少见。首日封整体美观大方、和气致祥，具有浓厚的艺术感。这是三位艺术家通过“国家名片”为全国人民送上的浓浓祝福。
美观大方 和气致祥 – 中国邮政集团有限公司 (chinapost.com.cn)

Release date: March 5, 2022

Christmas Island

cancels for Australia

mini sheet and FDC

FDCs

sheets of 10

numismatic covers and coins

Release date: February 8, 2022

gold minisheets

Numimatic card & coin, medallion set

Lunar Calendar pack

Lion Dance pack

3 stamps, FDCs, cancels, mini sheets, full sheets, numismatic covers, medallions, foil sheets

Better images coming in January

Designer: Chrissy Lau 
Lau designed the 2021 Year of the Ox stamps for Christmas Islands and Guernsey.  

Release date: January 6, 2022

Curaçao

6 stamps

Designer: Marcel van Duijneveldt

Release date: February 2022

E

Estonia

1 stamp, FDC, cancel, sheets of 20
offset

Designer: Triin Heimann
Heimann has designed over 20 stamps for Omniva including the 12 year Lunar New Year cycle, 2010 Winter Olympics, Christmas 2011, and the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics.

Release date: February 16, 2022

F     

Fiji

4 stamps, FDC, cancel

Release date: February 7, 2022

France

2 sheets of 4 stamps

“It has been so long since the memory of men remembers it, the Jade Emperor, in the kingdom of Heaven, decided to organize a race between all the animals.”

This legend has it that the first three to arrive were the rat, by cunning, the buffalo, by its power and, finally, the third was the tiger who crossed the river – the last obstacle – and arrived, exhausted, at the feet of the Emperor. Admiring, the sovereign granted him the third place in the Chinese calendar. Chinese New Year – Year of the Tiger | The ink square (lecarredencre.fr)

“It is important for me to bring the culture to which I am attached to life, to allow it to cross boundaries, and to allow others to be a part of it. I try to tell stories in such a way that they become universal.” Chen Jiang Hong 2013

Designer: Chen Jiang Hong 
Paris based, Chinese artist Chen Jiang Hong designed the 2021 Year of the Ox stamps. He won the Prix Albertine Jeunesse in 2019 or his book The Tiger Prince.

Chen Jiang Hong will be signing stamps on Jan. 24, depending on Covid restrictions.

Release date: January 24, 2022

French Polynesia

Artist: C. Sengues
Designer: Fare Rata 2022

Release date: February 1, 2022

G     

Gambia

2 stamps on sheetlets of 4

Designer: IGPC

Release date: February 1, 2022

Gibraltar

2 stamps, sheet of 10, FDC, cancel, presentation pack 
offset lithography

Designer: Stephen Perera
Perera is the primary designer for Gibraltar Post. He created the Year of the Ox stamps in 2021
Illustrator: © Bajena and Siewhoong at istockphoto.com
The design style will look familiar to Gibraltar collectors. Bajena and Siewhoong were the creative folks behind previous Lunar New Year stamp. 

Release date: February 25, 2022

Great Britain

sheet of 20 generic stamps

Designer: Rebecca Sutherland
Sutherland has designed about a dozen stamps for Royal Mail, including Lunar New Year issues starting with the Dragon.

Release date: December 8, 2021

Grenada

4 stamps on a souvenir sheet

Designer: IGPC

Release date: February 1, 2022

Guernsey 

6 stamps, FDC, cancel, souvenir sheet, presentation pack, numbered uncut sheets (limited to a run of 200),  sheets of 10, gold replica souvenir sheet (limited run of 200 sheets).

Gold replica souvenir sheets are 24 carat gold foil encased in an acrylic display stand. Sheets are numbered & issued with a certificate of authenticity.

• 50p Stretching Tiger
• 70p stamp: Coin Tiger
• 73p stamp: Longevity Tiger
• £1 stamp: Lantern Dreams
• £1.15 stamp: Tiger mum with cub
• £1.20 stamp: Hongbao Tigers

 Designer: Chrissy Lau Chrissy Lau | Artist Illustrator | Portfolio

It was easy to spot Lau’s art. She has created a number of stamps for Guernsey Post, including the last two Lunar New Years –  Year of the Rat and Year of the Ox.  She also created the 2021 Australia/Christmas Island Year of the Ox set. 

Release date: January 5, 2022

Guyana

Souvenir sheet of 6

Release date: April, 2022

H

Hong Kong 

4 stamps, sheet, sheetlet, silk stamp sheetlet, presentation packs, prepaid Lunar New Year greeting cards (Air Mail), 1 cancel, “Heartwarming Stamps” Mini-pane (Local Mail Postage), “Heartwarming Stamps” Mini-pane (Air Mail Postage), Red Packet, FDC, FDC (prestige) with cancel, postage prepaid Lunar New Year Greeting Cards (Air Mail)

Designer: Kan Tai-Keung

Release date: January 18, 2022

Year of the Tiger Prestige Album Joint Issue

Special joint issue prestige album with stamps from Hong Kong, China, Macau, Australia, Isle of Man, Japan, France, Liechtenstein and New Zealand available only to Advance Order Service subscribers.  Also includes a 24K Gold Plated souvenir sheet. 

Release date: April 21, 2022

Lunar New Year Animals – Ox/Tiger

stamp sheetlet, Lunar New Year Animals souvenir cover, serviced Lunar New Year Animals souvenir cover, Presentation Pack, Lunar New Year Animals souvenir cover (Prestige), serviced Lunar New Year Animals souvenir cover (Prestige)

more images coming

Designer: Kan Tai-Keung

Release date: January 18, 2022

Hungary

2 stamps on souvenir sheet, FDC, cancel 
4 colour offset

9th in the current Lunar New Year series

Designer: Berta Ágnes Szajkó

Release date: January 25, 2022

I

Indonesia

3 stamps, 1 stamp on a souvenir sheet, stamp pack, FDCs, cancel

details coming 

 Release date: 2022

Isle of Man

4 stamps, FDC, cancel,  presentation pack, 4 sheets of 20 
FDCs & presentation packs will be limited editions with 2,250 FDCs issued and 1,750 presentation packs

• The sign’s celebrated courage
• The cosmological link to the element of water
• Tiger’s compatibility with the Horse
• The auspicious association with plum blossom

Designer: Ana Jaks Ana Jaks | Animals, Character, Commercial | JSR Agency
Bristol based illustrator & mural artist Jaks is originally from the Isle of Man.

Release date: January 13, 2022

J

Japan

4 stamps, 2 cancels

Kyosen Kawasaki
Yamashina Bishamon-do Majo Papier-mache Tiger Face

From the drawings (toy paintings) of local toys drawn by Kawasaki Kyosen (1877-1942), we are looking at each one in the life of next year’s Eboshi Eshi and the [Lunar New Year – Year of the Tiger]. 

Born in 1877 in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, Kawasaki Kyosen worked as a gatekeeper for ukiyo-e artist Yoshinoki Nakai before turning into a design artist who produced commercial advertisements and newspaper advertisements. After that, he made a () () () living by collecting local toys and collecting shu by distributing works depicting local toys (toy paintings) from the end of the Meiji era to the early Showa period. The sketchbook of the brushstrokes left by Kyosen (“Toy Book” and “Kyosen Toy Book”) was donated to the Nakanoshima Library in Osaka Prefecture and preserved as the “Mermaid Cave Library”.

There are more than 5,000 kinds of toys taken up in the giant spring, and it is valuable as a material for local toys that are gradually disappearing with the times.  
From Japanese pamphlet 郵趣のための押印サービス等 (japanpost.jp)

Artists: Kawasaki Kyosen  
Designer: 吉川 亜有美 Ayami Yoshikawa 

Release date:  November 1, 2021

Jersey

1 stamp, stamp on a souvenir sheet, mini sheet of 10, 2 FDCs, cancel, 2 presentation packs

four colour offset lithography plus gold metallic ink with varnish

Designer: Wang Huming
Huming designed the previous Lunar New Year stamps for Jersey, as well as the UN’s Year of the Ox stamp. He has also designed stamps for China.

Release date: January 4, 2022

K – L 

Korea – South

 Year of the Black Tiger

2 stamps, souvenir sheet of 4, sheet of 16, cancel

 From the myth of Dangun to Hodori, the mascot of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the tiger has historically been a symbol of Korea and the Korean people. Since ancient times, there have been many tigers in Korea, so it has been called ‘the country of tigers’. In folk tales and myths, tigers appear as beings living in close relationships with humans. In <Samguksagi>, a tiger is portrayed as the protector and helper of the hero who nursed Gyeon Hwon, the founder of Later Baekje. You can also find the appearance of a tiger in the field of art. A lagoon (a stone tiger) was placed in the royal tombs of the Joseon Dynasty, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and <Yonghodo> was hung in front of the gates of government offices in the late Joseon Dynasty. <Yonghodo> is a large painting with a large tiger in it, and it is presumed to be a Sehwa (a painting that means blessing the new year). As such, the tiger has been portrayed as a guardian animal since ancient times and has been considered sacred by our people.
연하우표 – 우표 상세보기 – 한국우표 – 한국우표포털서비스 K-stamp (epost.go.kr)

Designer: 김미화 | Mihwa Kim

Release date: December 1, 2021

Kyrgyzstan

1 stamp, mini sheet of 5, FDC, postcard, cancel

Happy New Year is printed on the edges of the mini sheet in Kyrgyz, Russian, English and Chinese

Designer: Diana Roşcovan 

Release date: December 31, 2021

Liechtenstein

1 stamp, souvenir sheet, mini sheet with 4 blocks, FDC, cancel, maxi card

Designer: Stefan Erne, Triesen

Release date: November 15, 2021

M – N Year of the Tiger

Macau 

5 stamps, sheet of 16, sheetlet with one stamp, 2 FDCs, cancel, souvenir sheet, folder with 8 stamps, promissory note, joint FDC with China

Designer: Yu Si | 余思 

Release date: January 5, 2022

Year of the Tiger Postal Label 

1 postal label, FDC, cancel

Designer: Feng Baozhu |  馮寶珠

Release date: February 15, 2022

Mongolia

2 stamps, FDC, cancel
offset

This set picks up the design from last year’s Ox stamps. I’m trying to find scans of the FDC for the tigers, but so far, no luck. 

Release date: January 3, 2022

Marshall Islands

6 stamps on sheet

Release date: February 1, 2022

Nederlands

1 stamp on a souvenir sheet

Release date: December 30, 2021

New Zealand 

4 stamps, 4 sheets of 25, 4 logo blocks, 4 barcode A blocks, 4 plate blocks, 2 FDCs, souvenir sheet, enamel souvenir pin, presentation pack, numbered & framed gold foil souvenir sheet (limited to 66), 2 gold foil sheets in plexi stands

gold foil sheets are 24-carat 99.9 gold

Uses the Chinese nianhua design style. 

Designer:  Ying Chu & YMC Design

Release date: December 1, 2021

P

Philippines

3 stamps, FDC, cancel, sheets of 8 
offset lithography

Philippine’s post had some AWESOME t-shirts and posters at their unveiling. If you managed to get your hands on one, can you post a photo.  Staff were wearing them at the live unveiling and they looked great. 

Release date: January 31, 2022

Poland

1 stamp, sheet of 8, FDC, cancel

Designer: Andrzej Gosik
Gosik designed the 2021 Year of the Ox stamp.

Release date: February 1, 2022

R

Romania 

2 stamps with label, sheet of 8, FDC, cancel, 2 maxi cards

Designer: George Ursachi

Release date: February 2, 2022

S

Singapore

2 stamps, booklet of 10, 2 sheets of 10, FDC, cancel, framed stamp, 2 postcards, presentation pack, SAM label, folder pack, minipane, collector’s sheet
offset Lithography

Designer: Ms Lim An-Ling
An-Ling created the 2021 Year of the Ox set.

Release date: January 7, 2022

Sint Maarten

8 stamps on a souvenir sheet

Release date: January 2022

Slovakia

2 stamps

For the 2022 Winter Olympics at Beijing.

Strictly speaking, this isn’t a Lunar New Year stamp, but a combination of the Year of the Tiger and Beijing Olympics motifs.  The design is brilliant. Pair the two stamps and you get a whole tiger. A well thought out design.

Release date: January 19, 2022

T

Taiwan

2 stamps, stamp on souvenir sheet, 2 FDCs, cancel, 2 sheets of 20

NOTE: This new translation was tweaked by a reader. I appreciate the work he put into getting this correct. He also supplied a correction to the designer’s name. 

一、面值6元郵票：以「虎躍山雄勢，福氣富滿堂」意念，祝福虎年大吉大利，大顯身手。
二、面值13元郵票：以「虎虎生風」意念，祈願新的一年風生水起，萬事圓滿順利，虎（福）氣一整年。
三、面值15元小全張：以老虎之威武虎嘯來呈現「虎虎生威，福氣沖天」，藉以祝福新的一年虎氣沖天，身體健康如虎。

Mediocre translation:

1. 6 NTD (face value) stamp: Concept: “As the tiger leaps mightily in the mountains, blessings and good fortune fill the home.” This stamp represents good fortune in the Year of the Tiger and the opportunity to make a full display of one’s talents.
2. 13 NTD (face value) stamp: Concept: “Two tigers set the tone.” This stamp represents wishes for a flourishing new year, full of success and smooth waters, with the luck and vigor of the tiger lasting the whole year. 
3. 15 NTD (face value) souvenir sheet: using the tiger’s powerful roar, this sheet expresses the idea that “The tiger’s roar sends good fortune to the heavens” to wish everyone the same heavenly good fortune as well as the sturdy health of a tiger.   

Designer: Lin Chun-liang  | 林俊良

Release date: November 29, 2021

Thailand

1 stamp, sheet of 10, FDC, cancel

Artwork: HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn who also drew the 2021 Year of the Ox stamp 
Designer: Udorn Niyomthum

Release date: January 4, 2022

Tuvalu

5 stamps on a souvenir sheet

Designer: IGPC

Release date: February 1, 2022

U Year of the Tiger

United Nations

1 stamp, sheet of 5, cancel

Designer: Tiger Pan | 潘 虎
Mr Pan also designed the 2018 Year of the Dog stamps for the UN. The stamp won the 2017 Executive Design/Xioa Longfei Award and the 2019 Graphis Silver Award.

Release date: January 21, 2021

United States

1 stamp, sheet of 20, FDC, 2 cancels, on in colour

Artist: Camille Chew
Camille designed the 2021 Year of the Ox stamps.
Designer: Antonio Alcalá

Release date: January 20, 2022

Uruguay

1 stamp, souvenir sheet 9, cancel

Designer: Daniel Pereyra
Pereyra also designed Uruguay’s Year of the Ox stamp last year

Release date: January 27, 2022

V – Z Year of the Tiger

Vietnam

Lunar New Year – Year of the Tiger Tết Nhâm Dần

2 stamps, souvenir sheet

The tigers are painted in the Hang Drum / Hàng Trống folk style. 

The background shows the image of the Tiger family is happy together to welcome the new spring under the forest of plum blossoms, peach blossoms, apricot flowers are blooming every Tet, spring. VNPost | Introducing stamps: “Tet Tram Phat”

Designer: Nguyễn Quang Vinh

Release date: December 1, 2021

Vietnam put out a fun a Lunar New Year stamp for Year of the Ox in 2020. Take a look at it here: 

Vietnam’s delightful Year of the Ox stamps

If you enjoy Lunar New Year stamps, you have to check out the 2021 Year of the Ox stamps. Pick the ones you prefer and leave a comment and let me know.

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