Kurt Fearnley’s Racing Wheelchair
- Country: Australia
- Issued on: 2023-02-07
- Size: 26 x 37.5 mm
- Colors: Multicolor
- Designer: Tim Hancock
- Printer: RA Printing
- Format: Commemorative
- Perforation: 14½ x 14
- Printing: Offset lithography
- Gum: Ordinary
- Face value: 1.20 $ – Australian dollar
Konstantin Konik, Physician and politician (1873-1936)
- Country: Estonia
- Issued on: 2023-02-21
- Size: 44.75 x 37 mm
- Colours: Multicolor
- Designer: Vladimir Taiger
- Printers: Banco de la Republica
- Format: Commemorative
- Perforation: 13
- Printing: Offset lithography
- Face value: 0.90 € – Euro
- Description: Issued in panes of 20
Konik is considered one of the three founding fathers of the Republic of Estonia, who proclaimed the independent Republic of Estonia on February 24, 1918. Konik retired from active politics in the early 1920s. From September 1920 to 1931 Konstantin Konik was professor of surgery, dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tartu, and head of the university’s Nervous and Children’s Hospital. On March 8, 1920, he delivered the first Estonian-language auditorium lecture at the university.
Ichthyosis
- Country: North Macedonia
- Date of issue: 2023-02-28
- Colors: Multicolor
- Format: Commemorative coin
- Perforation: 13½ x 13¼
- Printing: offset lithography
- Face value: 36 ден – North Macedonian Denarius
- Print run: 6,000
With this stamp, North Macedonia continues its series highlighting rare diseases – most of them genetic.
Ichthyosis is a rare genetic skin disease characterized by abnormal keratinization of the skin. Affected individuals usually have significantly thickened and scaly skin resembling fish scales. This scaling occurs due to impaired formation and desquamation of skin cells.
