Luxembourg 2021 stamps & cancels are uncluttered & visually appealing. The program didn’t kick off until March, so it’s a relative late starter in the stamp world.

According to Luxembourg’s emissions calendar, the year was to start with a stamp celebrating the Stade du Luxembourg, but it doesn’t seem to have made the March 9th cut. Nor did the second stamp on the list 125 years of the Lycee technique des Arts et Metiers. They may pop up later in the year, who knows. As of the date of this article’s publication, Japan will go on with this year’s Olympics so the Olympiad stamps will be issued after all. There was a great deal of speculation that many of the Olympic stamps would be postponed if the event was pushed back a year. This news should please a few sports collectors I know. 

Slogan Cancels 2021 

Luxembourg’s post office website is well organised and easy to wander around. One of the surprises, for me, is how well presented the cancels are. Luxembourg offers a number of slogan cancels as well as the usual First Day Cover post marks. Instead of hiding them, or barely making note of their existence, Luxembourg has an entire category devoted to promoting them. As someone who loves the work put into post marks, this is deeply appreciated. 

I’m trying something a bit different on this page with the slogan cancels. Since they aren’t issued with a stamp, they kind of stand out there alone. I’ve set them up as separate items below and listed them as I do the stamps. First Day Cover cancels are nested in with the specific FDCs, but the slogans are setup individually, along with the dates they are available. Looks like the slogans have a short shelf-life of approx. one month. If you see one you want, don’t waste anytime sending off for it.

If you are interested, you need to look at the Philatelic Service via Luxembourg Post:

PHILATELIC CANCELLATION SERVICE
Since the opening of the automatic sorting and cancellation center, postmarks with promotional slogans can be applied only to address mail that is forwarded through the regular postal channel. Items should be sent to: POST Courrier – Centre de Tri, Z.A. Krakelshaff L-3290 Bettembourg.

For full details on how to acquire a cancel see this page:  Lëtzebuerger Landesuerbstbauveräin – Post Philately

Cancel Hound alert

If you are a cancel collector, it would be well worth the time looking through Luxembourg’s site. They maintain a lengthy archive of past marks, with good scans online. You can create your own database of cancels you want to hunt down. There are themes to suit every collection – birds, animals, vehicles, food, military and much more. Last year, they issued what I consider one of the best cancels of 2019. The detailed work on the feathers and beak are beautiful and the eye has a liquid lifelike feel to it. 

Oiseaux rares 2020

SEPAC & EUROPA

Luxemburg is a member of both SEPAC and Europa so will have stamps for both this year’s competitions. The SEPAC theme for 2021 is historical maps and Europa’s theme is Endangered National Wildlife. Europa is set for May and SEPAC will be issued in September. It’ll be fun to compare them to other member countries.  

Jan Special Cancel

A heart for children with cancer

Slogan Cancel

Available: Jan. 2, 2021 to Feb. 15, 2021

Luxembourg 2021 stamps March 

125 years Landesuerbstbauveräin

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Today, the promotion of fruit growing in Luxembourg is one of the main objectives of the association. In Luxembourg, the level of self-sufficiency in fruit is currently 1%. Therefore, in the first instance, the farms are supported and motivated to expand the areas under cultivation.
FDC 125 years Landesuerbstbauveräin – Post Philately

Photographer:  Anne Lommel Photography (LU)
Designer: Fargo sàrl (LU)

Release date: March 9, 2021

100 years Soroptimist International

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Fargo sàrl (LU)

Release date: March 9, 2021

75 years Luxembourg Handball Federation

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Fargo sàrl (LU)

Release date: March 9, 2021

40 years marriage grand-ducal couple

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Fargo sàrl (LU)
Photo: © Cour grand-ducale / Emanuele Scorcelletti

Release date: March 9, 221

April Special Cancel

RED CROSS

Slogan cancel

Available: April 13 to May 17, 2021

Luxembourg 2021 stamps May 2021

125 years Lycée des Arts et Métiers

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Charel Heng Lepage 

Release date: May, 2021

Prince Charles

9 stamp, cancel maxi card, sheetlet with 8 stamps

Release date: May 10, 2021

25 years of Foundation Autisme Luxembourg 

1 stamp, cancel, FDC

Designer: Patrick Simon, Fondation Autisme Luxembourg

Release date: May 11, 2021

25 years of the Lëtzebuerg City Museum

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Irina Moons

Release date: May 11, 2021

EUROPA – Endangered National Wildlife

2 stamps, FDC, cancel

• Greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis)
• Western polecat (Mustela putorius)

Artist: Johan de Crem 
Designer: Ierace + Dechmann + Partners

Release date: May 11, 2021

Summer Olympics in Tokyo

1 stamp, FDC, cancel
Original release date for 2020 postponed because of Covid 

Designer: Kumiyonoe

Release date: May 11, 2021

Congrès National FSPL

Special cancel

Release date: May 15, 2021

Luxembourg Red Cross
Slogan Postmark

Release date: May 4, 2021 to April 17, 2021

700 years of death of Peter of Aspelt
Special Postmark

Release date: May 5, 2021

meng.post.lu
Slogan Postmark

Special post mark promoting Luxembourg post’s personalised postcards and stamps service

Release date: May 18, 2021 to June 14, 2021

I’m getting vaccinated!
Slogan postmark

Release date: May 15, 2021 to June 23, 2021

June releases for 2021 

Asteroid Day 2021

1 stamp, cancel, maxi card

3D effect on stamps & maxi

Each purchase through POST Luxembourg comes with 3D glasses

Release date: June 30, 2021

July Releases

27th Year  BD Contern Festival  
Slogan cancel

1 stamp, cancel

Release date: July 9 – 17, 2021

Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Tokyo
Slogan cancel

Release date: July 23, 2021

Day of Maximaphilie
Slogan cancel

Release date: July 24, 2021

Luxembourg 2021 stamps August releases for 2021

Stade de Luxembourg

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Rendertaxi (DE)

Release date: August 19, 2021

Collecting stamps is fun
Slogan cancel

Release date: August 24, 2021 to Sept 27, 2021

Luxembourg 2021 stamps Sept

Release date: September 1, 2021

World Expo in Dubai

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Rendering: Metaform Architects
Layout: Lex Weyer (LU)

Release date: Sept. 14, 2021

SEPAC – historical map

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

16th century Map of Luxembourg – Jakob van Deventer (1500 – 1575).

van Deventer was a cartographer commissioned by Spanish kings Charles V and Philip II. 
Jakob van Deventer mapped all the cities in the Netherlands for Philip II. His work was largely unknown until the 19th century. He mapped between 250 and 260 cities from all over the Netherlands, north Germany and France and Luxembourg. 

To properly illustrate the city he measured up various points in the city and joined them together. He thereby made use of triangulation. He went and stood somewhere in the city and chose two points that he could see. He measured the distance between the two points and his stand point and measured the angle between the two lines. This way he could calculate what the distance was between both endpoints of the lines. This was a new method.  Maps by Jacob van Deventer – Het Utrechts Archief (google.com)

Designer: IDP+Partners (L)

Release date: Sept. 14, 2021

Stamp Day 2021

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Designer: Eugène Kalmus (LU)

Release date: Sept. 14, 2021

Rural tourism

2 stamps, FDC, cancel

Designer: Eugène Kalmus (LU)

Release date: Sept. 14, 2021

ATM Label – Vieux Luxembourg

1 ATM stamp, FDC, cancel

[The} Brindille pattern introduced by Pierre-Joseph Boch in 1770. The blue rococo motif of delicate twigs and lines was one of the first patterns of Luxembourg ceramics manufacturer Boch founded in 1767, and today it is one of the best-known Villeroy & Boch motifs. ATM Stamp 2021 – Post Philately

Villeroy & Boch (villeroyboch-tr.com) (in English)

Designer: Vidale-Gloesener (L)

Release date: September 14, 2021

Opening of the CNIS

1 stamp, FDC, cancel

Opening of CNIS, the new headquarters of the Luxembourg Fire and Rescue Corps

Designer: Fargo sàrl (LU)

Release date: Sept. 19, 2021

75th Anniversary CFL – Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois – National Railway

3 stamps on a souvenir sheet, 3 maxi cards, cancel

Release date: September 25-26, 2021

October

50 years of “Médecins Sans Frontières”

1 stamp

Layout: Binsfeld (LU)

Release date: October 

November

Coco Chanel 2021

1 stamp, FDC, cancel, maxi card

Release date: November 4, 2021

Collector’s Passion

details coming

December

Use our Christmas stamps
Slogan cancel

Release date: December 14, 2021 to December 17, 202

4 stamps

2 stamps

Artist: Jens W. Beyrich (FL) 
Designer: Ben Hemmen, POST Luxembourg (LU)