Slovenia 2021 stamps offer up familiar themes of wildlife, aviation and, of course, the lunar new year. This year is a bonanza year for aviation collectors, with post offices around the world marking a number of 100-year anniversaries. Slovenia will be offering a tribute to inventor & engineer Valentin Matija Živic in late fall.

A stamp that should create interest in Canada is the next issue in the Slovenes around the World series. This year, Canada is celebrated. Approx. 40,470 Canadians proudly claim Slovenian heritage. There are quite a few easily recognized names in the list of Slovenians who make Canada home, including world class figure skater Elvis Stojko and 12 NHL hockey players.  Slovenian Canadians | The Canadian Encyclopedia

If you are a looking for a new area to explore, I’d recommend popping over to the Slovenia Post’s website. They have a lot of useful information and an easy-to-use format. The English version of the Slovenian post office is excellent.  Plenty to keep a new collector happy. After wading through over 180 post office websites, Slovenia Post was a breath of fresh air.  They include a lot of details, including cancels (post marks), FDC information and designers.

This listing includes links to stamp designers when I was able to find them. Happily, for me, Slovenia seems to love its arts and isn’t shy about promoting the designers.

Click on the thumbnails to see larger versions of each stamp.

UPDATE: March 15, 2021

I’ve begun to include postcards issued by Slovenia. They produce some fun, interesting ones and are worth looking at. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do. 

Slovenia 2021 stamps for January

Blasius Kozenn – 200th Anniversary of the Birth 
Blaž Kocen, geographer and cartographer,
200th anniversary of his birth &150th anniversary of his death

1 stamp, 1 FDC

POSTMARK PLACE: Ponikva

Designer:  Borut Bončina
Previous stamps include last year’s 90th Anniversary of the Execution of the Heroes of Bazovica and 2019’s Franjo Malgaj the first Slovene to arrive in Carinthia in 1918.

Release date: Jan 28, 2021

Love

1 stamp – heart shaped, 1 FDC

POSTMARK PLACE:  Maribor  

 In some parts of the world and some social environments, conditions are still far from being ideal and we are still witnessing cases of rejection, intolerance and other phenomena that attempt to push homosexual love and the whole LGBT movement to the margins of society, or even out of it altogether. For this reason, the stamp design in the characteristic colours of the LGBT flag aims to draw attention to our tolerant encounters with human relationships of different kinds. From Slovenia Post

Designer: Edi Berk

Berk’s previous stamp designed include 10 years -1988 Liberation of Slovenia, Bozidar Jakac Slovenian artist, 2002 Valentine’s stamp and 2020’s Contemporary Arts and Crafts Metal Work and Gastronomy – Šelinka from the Karst Region.

Release date: Jan 28, 2021

Lunar New Year – Year of the Ox

1 stamp, 1 FDC

POSTMARK PLACE: Maribor

Designer: Maja Tomažič
Some of Marat Design’s previous issues include 2020 Prominent Personalities – Hugo Wolf, 2019 Year of the Pig, 2018 Slovenia Ballet, and Superstition and Magic in Slovenia in 2018.

Release date: Jan 28, 2021

ARCHITECTURE IN SLOVENIA Meksika Building in Ljubljana
1926‒27 (Vladimir Šubic)
Continuing series celebrating Slovenia architecture

1 stamp, miniature sheet and FDC

POSTMARK PLACE: Meksika

Designer: Robert Žvokelj, DAK
Previous stamps in the series by Žvokelj includes the 2018 and 2020 Architecture in Slovenia issue

Release date: Jan 28, 2021

CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND CRAFTS IN SLOVENIA
Contemporary lacemaking

1 stamp, FDC

POSTMARK PLACE: Prvidan

… Tina Koder Grajzar, a native of Idrija, the centre of Slovene lacemaking, … dedicates herself above all to the creation of contemporary lace jewellery. Her focus is not so much on the technique itself, which allows her to maintain the identity of her products with the predominant use of the narrow-tape style (also known as the Idrija style), as on the creation of modern patterns, in other words design. An example of this is the necklace featured on the present stamp. Slovenia Post Office

Designer: Pavla Bonča
Previous stamp designs include 2020’s International Year of Plant Health

Release date: Jan 28, 2021

200th anniversary of the Congress of Laibach

Post Mark 200th anniversary

1 stamp, FDC

Designer: villa creativa
Previous designs include 2020’s FIS Ski Flying World Championships

Release date: Jan 28, 2021

Slovenia 2021 stamps March 2021  

TOURISM – Dolenjska
wellness tourism

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Matjaž Učakar

Release date: March 12, 2021

FIRST SLOVENE INVENTORS WITH PATENTS
Ivan Bajde (1855–1920) – clavi harp/ piano harp

1 stamp, Miniature sheet, FDC, cancel

Designer: villa creativa

Release date: March 12, 2021

FLORA – SPONTANEOUS SHRUBS

• Wayfarer (Viburnum lantana),
• false lauren (Viburnum tinus),
• snowball bush (Viburnum opulus ‘Roseum’),

3 stamps + miniature sheet of 1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Zlatko Drčar

Release date: March 12, 2021

100 years of rock climbing in Slovenia

1 POSTCARD

Designer:  villa creativa

Release date: March 12, 2021

60th Anniversary – Reading Badges

1 POSTCARD

Designer:  villa creativa

Release date: March 12, 2021

Slovenia 2021 stamps May 2021  

E U R O PA 2021 – Endangered wild animals 

2 stamps + sheetlets, FDC, cancel

wild cat & kivji petelin

Designer: Maja Tomažič

Release date: May 28, 2021

European Congress of Mathematics

1 stamp, cover, cancel

Designer: Marko Prah

Release date: May 28, 2021

SLOVENIA – EUROPEAN REGION OF GASTRONOMY 2021

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Edi Berk
Photographer: Tomo Jeseničnik

Fortunat Bergant and his works, 300th anniversary of his birth

5 stamps, FDC, cancel

He was born on 6 July 1721 in Mekinja, but the family soon moved to nearby Kamnik. We still know relatively little about his early years and creation today. His works are scattered throughout Slovenia and beyond our borders – in Carinthia, in Places like in Croatia (Sinac, Otočac), Hungary and Italy. Among the painter’s greatest achievements of this period can surely be the stay in Rome and the schooling of the “Scuoli del Nudo” there, which was managed by the renowned “Accademia di San Luca”, at which in 1756 and 1758 he received the first prize for drawing male acts. Land of brands – Fortunat Bergant and his works – Volbenk Danijel baron Erberg (dezelaznamk.si)

• Volbenk Danijel Baron Erberg
• Mary Ana Baroness Erberg
• Abbot Leopold Buset
• Birdman
• Prestar (Didn’t translate well)

Designer: Robert Žvokelj
Photographer: Janko Dermastja, National Gallery

Release date: May 28, 2021

July 

Summer Olympics, Tokyo –  climbing & sailing

2 stamps, FDC, cancel

Designer: Robert Žvokelj

Release date: July 12, 2021

Gold Earrings from the Školarice Site (Late 3rd/Early 4th Century AD)

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

On the hillside above today’s Ankara road hub, one of the more affluent families from the Trieste or Aquileian agra built a Roman villa in the mid-first century. The management of the villa lasted until the middle of the fifth century, when it was destroyed by fire… 
The site called Školarice was discovered and researched in 2002, before the construction of a motorway junction. It is the most extensive complex of roman villa with its own burial site in the Slovenian part of Istria. Land of brands – EUROMED POSTAL – Handmade Jewellery of the Mediterranean (dezelaznamk.si)

 DDC_020_100_JWDQWSVVKBNIVKIHYZYMHNGHHTYDYD.pdf (eheritage.si) 

Designer: villa creativa

Release date: November 30, 2021

Slovenia 2021 stamps Sept. 2021  

Well at Maribor Castle 
Series: WELLS IN SLOVENIA

1 stamp on a miniature sheet, FDC, cancel

Maribor Castle – Visit Maribor

Designer: Marko Prah

Release date: Sept. 24. 2021

200th anniversary of the National Museum of Slovenia

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

National Museum of Slovenia is the oldest museum institution in Slovenia

Designer: Marko Prah

Release date: Sept. 24. 2021

Nika Križnar

1 stamp on a miniature sheet, FDC, cancel

Ski Jumping: Nika Križnar Wins Overall World Cup (total-slovenia-news.com) 

Designer: Borut Bončina

Release date: Sept. 24. 2021

FAUNA – WORKING DOGS

3 stamps, 1 stamp on a souvenir sheet, FDC, cancel

• Great Poodle – assistance dogs
• Japanese Spitz – therapy dogs
• German Shepherd – service dogs
•  

Designer: villa creativa

Release date: Sept. 24, 2021

 October

Slovenian Olympic gold medals 

3 stamps, FDC, cancel

• Benjamin Savšek
• Primož Roglič
• Janja Garnbret

Designer: villa creativa

Release date: October 15, 2021

Nov 2021 

Sport – Tim Gajser

1 stamp on souvenir sheet, FDC, cance

Designer: Matjaž Učakar

Release date: November 12, 2021

Kavčnik Homestead, Zavodnje nad Šoštanjem
Series: Farmhouses of Slovenia 

1 stamp, miniature sheet

Designer: Marko Prah

Release date: Release date: November 12, 2021

Dr. Melita Pivec-Stele, librarian and historian 1894-1973
Series: Slovene female scientists

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Edi Berk

Release date: Nov. 12. 2021

The beginnings of systematic experimentation with model aircraft – Valentin Matija Živic 
Series: Pioneer and milestones of Slovene aviation

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Robert Žvokelj 

Release date: Nov. 12, 2021

 Slovenes in Canada
Series: Slovenes around the world

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Zadruga.traparij

Release date: Nov. 12, 2021

Christmas 2021

2 stamps, 2 folders of 12 stamps

• B – Birth of Christ
• C – three kings

Designers: Zadruga Traparij & Villa Creativa

Release date: Nov. 12, 2021

New Year 

2 stamps, 1 FDC, cancel, folder of 12 stamps

Designer: Pavla Bonča (greeting card) & Zala Perčič (fireworks)

Release date: Nov. 12, 2021

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