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Below is a checklist of Fog, mist, and haze on postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.). Catalog numbers, years of issue, and notes on the items featured are given when available. If readers know of additional information or images, please contact the authors using the e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.
| Launch covers (including anniversary-of-launch covers, and launch-related event covers) (farther below) |
Other postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.) (immediately below) |
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Below is a list of Fog, mist, and haze on postal items (stamps, souvenir sheets, aerogrammes, postal cards, etc.).
| Country | Catalog Number | Type of Item | Year of Issue | Notes on Content |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fog, mist, and haze | ||||
| Aland (Finland) | 385 (Mi?) | 2016 | Sea smoke (fog) | |
| Aland (Finland) | 385 fdc | Stamp and (Aland Post) cachet on FDC | ||
| Burundi | 1030a (Mi2343) | From MS4 (1030 (a-d)) (Mi2343-2346) | 2012 | Boieldieu Bridge (Rouen) at Sunset, in Misty Weather (in French text), painting by Camille Pissarro, 1896 |
| Canada | 1066a fdc1 (Mi972-975 fdc1) | Back of FDC (Canada Post cachet), also front | 1985 | "Many lighthouses ... have had fog detection devices and horns installed" (in French, "un système de cornes de brume et un équipement qui permet de détecter le brouillard") |
| Canada | 1066a fdc2 (Mi972-975 fdc2) | Back of FDC (Fleetwood cachet), also front | "blaring foghorns" | |
| Canada | 2567f (Mi?) | From MS9 (2567 (a-i)) | 2012 | The 1962 Grey Cup final took place in Toronto. It was suspended with about 9 minutes left to play because of dense fog that rolled in from Lake Ontario, and was completed the following day. The game is known to Canadians as "The Fog Bowl". |
| Canada | 2573 (Mi?) | Self-adhesive, from booklet pane of 10 (2573a (10x 2573)) (BL504), with booklet front and back | ||
| Canada | 2573 fdc | Self-adhesive stamp and (Canada Post) cachet on FDC, also back | ||
| Canada | 2573 card | Postal card, also back | ||
| Canada | 2745 fdc (Mi244 fdc) | (Canada Post) back of FDC also front | 2014 | "on a foggy night on the St. Lawrence River, just east of Rimouski, Québec, the coal ship SS Storstad collided with the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Empress of Ireland" |
| Canada | 2746 (Mi245) | Stamp on SS1 | The SS Storstad approaching the Empress of Ireland in the fog just before the collision on 29 May 1914; "thick fog rolled in and the Empress was struck by the SS Storstad" (in text on the FDC back) | |
| Canada | 2746 fdc | Stamp and (Canada Post) cachet on FDC, also back | ||
| Canada | KM-unknown | $20 dollar coin | 2014 | The Empress of Ireland and the SS Storstad approaching each other in the fog |
| Canada | 2838d (Mi3265) | From MS5 (2838 (a-e + label)) (BL215, Mi3262-3266) | 2015 | |
| Canada | 2838 fdc | MS5 on FDC, also back | ||
| Canada | 2838 sheet | Press sheet (containing 6x MS5) | ||
| Canada | 2841 (Mi3269) | Two of self-adhesive booklet of 10 (2843a (2x (2839-2843))) (Mi3267-3271, MH0-553), with outside | ||
| China (Taiwan) | 4406 (Mi4217) | 2018 | ||
| China (People's Republic) | 4126 (Mi?) | Strip of 3 (4126 (a-c)) from MS12 (4126d (4x (a-c))) | 2013 | Fog in valleys and low areas |
| China (People's Republic) | 4127 (BL?) | SS1 | ||
| China (People's Republic) | 3846A_ms label4 (Mi_A4181_ms label4) | Label4 from MS8 (8x 3846A + 4 labels) | 2018 | |
| Cook Islands | KM1374 | $5. (silver coin) reverse, also obverse | 2011 | "Hedgehog in a fog" (in Cyrillic text) |
| Croatia | 1139 (Mi1403) | Joint issue with Korea (South) 2558a; from MS9 (1139a (9x 1139)) | 2019 | fog in mountain valleys |
| Croatia | 1157 (Mi1441) | 2020 | ||
| Croatia | 1160 (Mi1444) | Self-adhesive | ||
| Finland | 1445c (Mi2264) | One of MS5 (1445 (a-e)) (BL79, Mi2262-2266) | 2013 | |
| Finland | 1445 fdc | MS5 on FDC | ||
| Finland | 1511 (Mi?) | One of strip of 2 (1512a (1511-1512)) | 2016 | |
| France | 5457 (Mi?) | 2018 | Church in background partially hidden by fog | |
| French Southern and Antarctic Territories | 224 cover (Mi359 cover) | Back of postal card, also front | 1997 | Fog in the valley below meteorologist René Garcia (eastern Greenland, August 1950) |
| Germany | 2090 card (Mi2127 card) | (Deutsche Post) FDC art card, and back; also detail1 | 2000 | Fog covering the valley (in detail image) below the Zugspitze weather station |
| Gibraltar | Unknown1 (Mi?) | One of MS6 (6x unknown1), or one of MS6 (a-f) | 2018 | |
| Gibraltar | Unknown fdc1 | MS6 on FDC | ||
| Gibraltar | Unknown fdc2 | MS6 on FDC (different) | ||
| Great Britain | 2244e (Mi?) | One of MS6 (2244 (a-f)) | 2004 | |
| Great Britain | 2249 (Mi?) | Self-adhesive | ||
| Great Britain | 2245-2250 fdc | One of six self-adhesive stamps on FDC | ||
| Great Britain | 2245-2250 pack | Presentation pack | ||
| Greenland | 620a label (Mi613 label) | Label from MS8 (620a (8x 620 + label)) | 2012 | Thin fog layer in the distance, in a line at the base of the glacier face and extending to the right |
| Greenland | 621 (Mi614) | Stamps from MS8 (621a (8x 621 + label)) | ||
| Greenland | 620-621 fdc | One of two stamps and (pictorial) cancel and (multi-color printed) cachet on FDC | ||
| Greenland | 623 (Mi616) | Self-adhesive, from booklet pane of 12 (623a (6x (622-623))) with booklet front | ||
| Guinea Republic | Yv2686_ss1 (Sc none, Mi none) | SS1 (Yv2686) | 2021 | L'Avertissement de Brouillard (The Fog Warning), painting by Winslow Homer, 1885; (see also USA 3236j) |
| Hong Kong | 1794 (Mi?) | 2016 | ||
| Hong Kong | 1804a (Mi?) | One of MS12 (1793-1804) | ||
| Hong Kong | 1806 (Mi?) | Self-adhesive | ||
| Hong Kong | 1816a (Mi?) | One of self-adhesive booklet of 12 (1805-1816) | ||
| Hong Kong | 1635 (Mi1881) | 2014 | "fog" | |
| Hong Kong | 1631-1636 fdc | One of six stamps on FDC | ||
| Iceland | 1436 (Mi1527) | From MS10 (1436a (10x 1436)) | 2017 | Sea smoke (fog) |
| Iceland | 1436-1437 fdc | One of two stamps and (pictorial) cancel on FDC | ||
| Ireland | None | Postcard back, also front | 2018 | "Fog gun" (at Waglan Islet lighthouse, Hong Kong) |
| Japan | 759 (Mi794) | 1962 | ||
| Japan | 938 (Mi980) | 1967 | Hazy mountains in the distance | |
| Japan | 986 (Mi1035) | 1969 | ||
| Japan | 986 maxi | Maxicard | ||
| Japan | 1041 (Mi1088) | 1970 | Hazy mountains in the distance | |
| Japan | 1041 maxi | Maxicard | ||
| Japan | 1111 (Mi1145) | 1972 | Fog lifting to stratus in the mountains | |
| Japan | 1111 maxi | Maxicard | ||
| Korea (South) | 2558a (Mi3423) | Joint issue with Croatia 1139; one of strip of 2 (2558 (a-b)) (Mi3423-3424) | 2019 | fog in mountain valleys |
| Korea (South) | 2558a maxi | Maxicard | ||
| Maldive Islands | Unknown c (Mi?) | One of MS4 (a-d) | 2016 | Boston lighthouse "fog signal cannon" |
| Maldive Islands | Unknown (Mi?) | In (lower-right) margin of SS1 | 2017 | Top Kahne Mosque, Constantinople, painting by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1884 |
| Mexico | 2403 (Mi?) | 2005 | "bosques de niebla" (literally, "fog forests", but the usual English term is "cloud forests") | |
| Netherlands | 1212a (Mi2294) | One of self-adhesive MS10 (1212 (a-j)) | 2006 | Cow in the rising evening mist (in Dutch text), painting by Ed van der Elksen, 1975 |
| Norway | 1681 (Mi1788) | From booklet of 10 (5x (1681-1682)) (Mi1788-1789) | 2012 | Kavringen lighthouse in fog |
| Norway | 1682 (Mi1789) | Medfjordbåen lighthouse in fog | ||
| Norway | 1681-1682 fdc | Two stamps on FDC | (As above for stamps) | |
| Norway | 1887 fdc (Mi2017 fdc) | (Posten (Norway Post)) cachet on FDC | 2020 | |
| Poland | None | Postal card | 2012 | |
| Russia (USSR) | 5469 (Mi?) | From MS8 (5469a (8x 5469)) | 1986 | The Return Journey (in Cyrillic text), painting by A.E. Arkhipov, 1896; (depicts a hazy background horizon and sky) |
| Russia (USSR) | 5641 (Mi5802) | From MS25 (5641a (25x 5641)) | 1988 | "Hedgehog in fog" (in Cyrillic text) |
| St. Pierre and Miquelon | 809 (Mi941) | 2005 | "Atmosphère de brume" (misty conditions) | |
| St. Pierre and Miquelon | 842 (Mi985) | 2007 | "La brume de capelan" (a late-spring sea fog, which in the lore of St. Pierre and Miquelon and of Acadian Canada presages the arrival of schools of capelin) | |
| St. Pierre and Miquelon | 961a (Mi1146) | From strip of 2 (961 (a-b)) | 2012 | "Le Béothuk [painting] par Dirk Verdoorn" (with a fog bank in the background) |
| St. Pierre and Miquelon | 961b (Mi1147) | "Esprit du Barachois [painting] par François Bellec" (the village in the background is shrouded in fog) | ||
| United States | 1919 fdc (Mi1488 fdc) | (Fleetwood) cachet on FDC, also back | 1981 | "Unaffected by the haze of Earth's atmosphere, an orbiting telescope [HST in this case] views space with unequaled clarity" |
| United States United States | 1919 fdc 3409a fdc | (Jim Butcher/Fleetwood) cachet on FDC, also back (3409a FDC, not of interest here) | 1981 2000 | "Unaffected by the haze of Earth's atmosphere, an orbiting telescope [HST in this case] views space with unequaled clarity" |
| United States | 3236j (Mi?) 3236j back | One of MS20 (3236 (a-t)) | 1998 | The Fog Warning, painting by Winslow Homer, 1885; (see also Guinea Yv2686_ss1) |
| United States | 3236j fdc1 | Stamp and (PCS golden-replica) cachet on FDC, also back | ||
| United States | 3236j fdc2 | Stamp on FDC (Ranto/1207 stamp poster and extra 1207 stamp), also back | ||
| United States | 3236j fdc3 | Stamp on FDC (ArtCraft cachet) | ||
| United States | 3236j fdc4 | Stamp and (Colorano silk) cachet (design like stamp) on FDC | ||
| United States | 3236d-e+3236i-j fdc | One of four stamps on FDC (Dynamite cachet) | ||
| United States | C138 (Mi?) | From MS20 (C138d (20x C138)) | 2001 | |
| United States | C138b (Mi?) | C138 re-issued (in 2005) | ||
| United States | C138 fdc1 | Stamp and (William) cachet (design like stamp) on FDC | ||
| United States | C138 fdc2 | Stamp on FDC (Artmaster cachet) | ||
| United States | C138 fdc3 | Stamp on FDC (HF cachet) | ||
| United States | C138 fdc4 | Stamp on FDC (ArtCraft cachet) | ||
| United States | C138 fdc5 | Stamp on FDC (Pugh Cachets) cachet | ||
| United States | C138 fdc6 | Stamp on FDC (Collins cachet) | ||
| United States | SP1408 | (USPS) souvenir page (C138) | ||
| United States | 4053 fdc1 (Mi4098 fdc1) | (Fleetwood) back of FDC, also front | 2006 | "Fog particles freeze" to form rime ice "due to the high winds and sub-freezing temperatures" |
| United States | 4053 fdc2 (Mi4098 fdc2) | (Mystic Stamp Company) back of FDC, also front | "The summit shimmers under a coating of rime ice. This feathery type of ice is formed as the supercooled water droplets in fog freeze as they hit the windward side of structures" | |
| United States | C140 (Mi?) | From MS20 (C140b (20x C140)) | 2006 | Haze in the Great Smoky Mountains; "dense vegetation exudes so much water vapor that it cloaks the chain of peaks in a dramatic mist. The fading light of the setting sun heightens the blue color of this perpetual haze" (in souvenir page text) |
| United States | C140 fdc1 | Stamp on FDC (ArtCraft cachet) | ||
| United States | C140 fdc2 | Stamp on FDC (? cachet) | ||
| United States | C140 maxicard | Maxicard | ||
| United States | SP1596 | (USPS) souvenir page (C140) | ||
| United States | C141 (Mi?) | From MS20 (C141a (20x C141)) | 2006 | |
| United States | SP1597 | (USPS) souvenir page (C141) | ||
| United States | C142 (Mi?) | From MS20 (C142a (20x C142)) | 2007 | |
| United States | C142 fdc1 | Stamp on FDC (WII cachet) | ||
| United States | C142 fdc2 | Stamp on FDC (Glen Cachet cachet) | ||
| United States | C142 fdc3 | Stamp on FDC (Graebner Chapter cachet, standard cancel) | ||
| United States | C142 fdc4 | Stamp on FDC (Graebner Chapter cachet, special cancel) | ||
| United States | SP1642 | (USPS) souvenir page (C142) | ||
| United States | C144 (Mi?) | From MS20 (C144a (20x C144)) | 2008 | |
| United States | C144 fdc1 | Stamp and (Bullfrog) cachet on FDC | ||
| United States | C144 fdc2 | Stamp on FDC (Collins cachet) | ||
| United States | C144 fdc3 | Stamp on FDC (3D-LAZ cachet), also back | ||
| United States | SP1681 | (USPS) souvenir page (C144) | ||
| United States | C147 (Mi?) | From MS20 (C147a (20x C147)) | 2009 | |
| United States | C147 fdc1 | Stamp on FDC (Pugh Cachets cachet), also insert | ||
| United States | C147 fdc2 | Stamp on FDC (Collins cachet) | ||
| United States | SP1738 | (USPS) souvenir page (C147) | ||
| United States | C148 (Mi?) | From MS20 (C148a (20x C148)) | 2011 | |
| United States | SP1789 | (USPS) souvenir page (C148) | ||
| United States | 4710d (Mi4886) | One of MS15 (4710 (a-o)), also back; also no die cuts and press sheet | 2012 | "Butte in early morning fog" |
| United States | 4710d fdc1 | Stamp (?) cachet (design like stamp) on FDC | ||
| United States | 4710d fdc2 | Stamp on FDC (Colorano silk cachet) | ||
| United States | 4710d fdc3 | Stamp on FDC (? cachet) | ||
| United States | 4710d fdc4 | Stamp on FDC (Collins cachet) | ||
| United States | 4710d fdc5 | Stamp on FDC (DCP cancel) | ||
| United States | 4710d fdc6 | Stamp on FDC (blank/no cachet) | ||
| United States | 4710c fdc | (Coverscape) cachet (partial reproduction of 4710d) on FDC | ||
| United States | 4710 card1 | Top card for pack of 100 (4710), also detail | ||
| United States | 4710 card2 | Top card for pack of 25 (4710), also detail1 and detail2 | ||
| United States | 4710 card3 | Top card for pack of 10 (4710), also detail1 and detail2 | ||
| United States | 4710 fdc | MS15 on FDC (ArtCraft cachet) | ||
| United States | SP1861 | (USPS) souvenir page (4710), also back | ||
| United States | CP908 page1 | (USPS no.908) commemorative panel (4710), also page2 | ||
| United States | None | (Coverscape) cachet on cover | 2018 | "Fog" (in the warm sector near the US east coast in the weather map) |
| United States | 5298q (Mi5514) | One of MS20 (5298 (a-t)) (Mi5498-5517) | 2018 | Hazy coastline mountains |
Below is a list of Fog, mist, and haze on satellite launch covers.
| Country | Cancel Date | Cancel Location | Type of Item | Notes on Content |
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| United States | 1989-08-08 | Houston TX | (Colorano silk) cachet on STS-28R launch and SDS-2-1 deployment cover | "hazy morning sky" |
| United States | 2019-06-12 | Vandenberg AFB, CA | (Red Eagle) cachet on RCM-1/2/3 launch cover | "heavy fog obscuring the view of the launchpad" |
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