A Pictorial History of National Stamp Collecting Month

1995 mini sheet introducing NSCM month

In 1995, President Ramos, also a well-known philatelist, signed Proclamation 494, declaring November every year hence as National Stamp Collecting Month. This mini sheet shows the President and the four stamps of the first NSCM set issued in November 1995.

1995 NSCM Local Paintings complete set

I don't really know why there was no NSCM set printed in 1996. However, the Post Office made up for their lack, in 1997.

1997 NSCM Local Paintings complete set.

1997 Philatelic and Philatelic Division Paintings complete set.
This set, I guess, was supposed to be for 1996.

The Stamp and Philatelic Division also had issued a beautiful set of local paintings in 1972, but Post Office was issuing Philatelic Week singles then,

1998 NSCM Vintage Movies complete set

1999 Local Sculptures complete set

2000 NSCM Local Nude Paintings complete set

2000 NSCM Local Nude Paintings complete FDC set

2001 NSCM Local Paintings complete set

2002 NSCM Great Achievers in Arts complete set

2003 NSCM Comics complete set

2003 NSCM Comics complete FDC set

2004 NSCM Comics complete set

2004 NSCM Comics complete FDC set

2005 NSCM Printmaking complete set

2006 NSCM Abstract Paintings complete set

2006 NSCM Abstract Paintings complete FDC set

2007 NSCM Juan Luna Paintings complete set

 

2008 NSCM Carlo Caparas Comics complete set

 

2008 NSCM Carlo Caparas Comics complete FDC set

2009 NSCM Children's Games complete set

2009 NSCM Children's Games complete FDC set

2010 NSCM National Artists complete set

2010 NSCM National Artists complete FDC set

2010 NSCM National Artists FPJ sheetlet & S/S

2010 NSCM National Artists FPJ FDC complete set

2011 NSCM Hernando Ocampo Paintings complete set

2011 NSCM Hernando Ocampo Paintings complete FDC set

2012 Young Artist of the Philippines mini sheet

I don't know if this is really NSCM. No FDC of this was made. This was printed because the Postmaster General, former Bulacan Governor Josie de la Cruz, collects painting, and the artist is reportedly a crony of hers. The postgen, whose bureaucratic mess has still to be cleared up, was appointed by morally corrupt President Noynoy Aquino.

2013 NSCM Dolphy mini sheet

2013 NSCM Dolphy FDC

 

2014 NSCM First Stamps of the Philippines 160th anniversary complete set

2014 NSCM First Stamps of the Philippines 160th anniversary FDC

2015 NSCM Philately sticker stamps mini sheet

2015 NSCM Philately sticker stamps FDC

                                                  2016 NSCM First Republic Stamps set

                                              2016 NSCM First Republic Stamps sheetlet

                                              2016 NSCM First Republic Stamps FDC set

                                           2017 NSCM Evolution of Philippine Jeepney set

                                         2017 NSCM Evolution of Philippine Jeepney FDC

                                                        2018 NSCM Philippine Lakes set

                                                   2018 NSCM Philippine Lakes FDC set

                                                     2019 NSCM Pinoy Music Icons

                                                   2019 NSCM Pinoy Music Icons FDC

In 2020, maybe because of the Covid pandemic, the Post Office did not print any NSCM stamps. Instead it decided to used old FDC envelopes, like the one for the Pope Francis visit in 2015, and just used a slogan cancel to mark the 2017 Postal Service set.

2021 NSCM Living Legends sheetlet

2021 NSCM Living Legends FDC

2022 NSCM President Ramos set

2022 NSCM President Ramos FDC set

2023 NSCM Manila Post Office sheetlet

2023 NSCM Manila Post Office FDC