*** ESPERANTO POSTER STAMPS AND LABELS ***

Esperanto spread around the world from its inception in 1887, until by 1905 there were enough speakers of the language to justify a world congress. Since then, except during World Wars I and II, there have been such international meetings every year.

Poster stamps have been issued for most of these events.

2014 will be the 99th World Esperanto Congress, in Buenos Aires, from July 26 through August 2.

The first Esperanto poster stamp I know of is dated 1905, the year of the first World Congress. (see below)

Below is a table (thanks, Wikipedia) listing the Esperanto World Congresses, with examples of poster stamps for each year, where known. Click on any image for an enlarged version in a separate window/tab.

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Congress number	Year	City	Country	Stamps
1	1905	Boulogne-sur- Mer	France	No apparent connection with the congress, but this is the only Esperanto stamp I have seen from 1905 - indeed, it is the earliest Esperanto stamp I have seen.
2	1906	Geneva	Switzerland	There may be other colors of this
3	1907	Cambridge	United Kingdom
4	1908	Dresden	Germany
5	1909	Barcelona	Spain	The flying angel stamp occurs also in red and blue.
6	1910	Washington, D.C.	U.S.
7	1911	Antwerp	Belgium
8	1912	Kraków	Poland
9	1913	Bern	Switzerland
10	1914	Paris	France	CANCELLED
11	1915	San Francisco	U.S.
====================== NOT HELD 1916 thru 1919 ======================
12	1920	The Hague	Netherlands
13	1921	Prague	Czechoslovakia
14	1922	Helsinki	Finland
15	1923	Nuremberg	Germany
16	1924	Vienna	Austria
17	1925	Geneva	Switzerland
18	1926	Edinburgh	United Kingdom
19	1927	Danzig	Free City of Danzig
20	1928	Antwerp	Belgium
21	1929	Budapest	Hungary
22	1930	Oxford	United Kingdom
23	1931	Kraków	Poland
24	1932	Paris	France	There are six different stamps in this sheetlet - they differ in the number and types of stars. Can you find them all?
25	1933	Cologne	Germany
26	1934	Stockholm	Sweden
27	1935	Rome	Italy
28	1936	Vienna	Austria
29	1937	Warsaw	Poland
30	1938	London	United Kingdom
31	1939	Bern	Switzerland
32	1940	Marseilles	France	CANCELLED
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32	1947	Bern	Switzerland
33	1948	Malmö	Sweden
34	1949	Bournemouth	United Kingdom
35	1950	Paris	France
36	1951	Munich	Germany
37	1952	Oslo	Norway
38	1953	Zagreb	Yugoslavia
39	1954	Haarlem	Netherlands
40	1955	Bologna	Italy
41	1956	Copenhagen	Denmark
42	1957	Marseille	France	It appears the dates of the congress had to be changed after the poster stamps were printed, so the wrong starting date was obliterated.
43	1958	Mainz	Germany
44	1959	Warsaw	Poland
45	1960	Brussels	Belgium
46	1961	Harrogate	United Kingdom
47	1962	Copenhagen	Denmark
48	1963	Sofia	Bulgaria
49	1964	The Hague	Netherlands
50	1965	Tokyo	Japan
51	1966	Budapest	Hungary
52	1967	Wikipedia says Rotterdam, but the stamp says Tel Aviv	Israel	THIS PAGE says the Congress was planned for Tel Aviv, but "moved to Rotterdam because of the Yom Kipper war(sic)." The Yom Kippur War was in 1973, so the author must mean the Six-Day War of 1967.
53	1968	Madrid	Spain
54	1969	Helsinki	Finland
55	1970	Vienna	Austria
56	1971	London	United Kingdom
57	1972	Portland	U.S.
58	1973	Belgrade	Yugoslavia
59	1974	Hamburg	Germany
60	1975	Copenhagen	Denmark
61	1976	Athens	Greece
62	1977	Reykjavík	Iceland
63	1978	Varna	Bulgaria
64	1979	Lucerne	Switzerland
65	1980	Stockholm	Sweden
66	1981	Brasília	Brazil	Postage stamp
67	1982	Antwerp	Belgium
68	1983	Budapest	Hungary
69	1984	Vancouver	Canada
70	1985	Augsburg	Germany
71	1986	Beijing	China
72	1987	Warsaw	Poland
73	1988	Rotterdam	Netherlands
74	1989	Brighton	United Kingdom
75	1990	Havana	Cuba
76	1991	Bergen	Norway
77	1992	Vienna	Austria
78	1993	Valencia	Spain
79	1994	Seoul	Republic of Korea
80	1995	Tampere	Finland
81	1996	Prague	Czech Republic
82	1997	Adelaide	Australia
83	1998	Montpellier	France
84	1999	Berlin	Germany
85	2000	Tel Aviv	Israel
86	2001	Zagreb	Croatia
87	2002	Fortaleza	Brazil
88	2003	Gothenburg	Sweden
89	2004	Beijing	China
90	2005	Vilnius	Lithuania
91	2006	Florence	Italy
92	2007	Yokohama	Japan
93	2008	Rotterdam	Netherlands
94	2009	Bialystok	Poland	Bialystok was the birthplace of L.L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto
95	2010	Havana	Cuba
96	2011	Copenhagen	Denmark
97	2012	Hanoi	Vietnam
98	2013	Reykjavík	Iceland
99	2014	Buenos Aires	Argentina
100	2015	Lille	France