cursus
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What I collect: Catalan Cinderellas. Used Switzerland, UK, Scandinavia, Germany & Austria. Postal History of Barcelona & Estonia. Catalonia pictorial postmarks.
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Post by cursus on Jul 8, 2020 9:48:51 GMT
Pompeu fabra i Poch (Gràcia, 1868 - Prada de Conflent, 1948) is considered "the father of Modern Catalan language". On November 1932 he published the first eddition of his "Diccionari General de la Llengua Catalana" (Catalan Language General Dictionary), which set the vocabulary of modern Catalan. a language spoken today by 10 milion of Europeans.
Andorra issued this stamp to commemorate the 150 years of his birth. Many streets, avenues, schools and a University bear Pompeu Fabra's name, now in Catalonia.
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 12, 2020 9:18:09 GMT
Also among the 1976 Dutch issues, this stamp promoting alphabetization:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 6, 2021 11:29:58 GMT
Issue from the RDC in 1971 promoting literacy:
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Apr 29, 2021 20:21:43 GMT
Another fun new issue from Spain, featuring their Bibliobus service. The stamp itself is shaped like a bus, and part of a little booklet which itself is shaped like a bus. The cover of the booklet mirrors the design of the stamp.
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salentin
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Post by salentin on May 2, 2021 17:00:46 GMT
German National Library,Frankfurt/Main and Leipzig centenary. issued Sept.13th,2012
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 13, 2021 20:26:34 GMT
Sheetlet from Sao Tomé e Principe issued for the 60 th anniversary of the death of Albert Camus:
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Aug 15, 2021 7:04:51 GMT
Issue from New Caledonia promoting cultural exchanges within the Francophony:
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Post by eggdog on Aug 20, 2021 2:59:36 GMT
The centenary, in 1980, of the National Library and Archives of the Republic of Honduras. When I returned to stamp collecting a dozen years or so ago, I bought a few starter batches (abandoned albums, dormant collections) - including several from Central America because they were available cheap. I put together a Steiner album of Honduras, didn't quite finish, and left it to rot on the shelf. When I came back to it years later, I discovered I actually enjoyed the overprints and the mysterious bearded characters who were on the stamps for various reasons, like being president for a few months. Most of those guys didn't have a Wikipedia page - not even in Spanish - and I could hardly find any A Brief History of Honduras books or Lonely Planetesque travel books in any library in the state. So I had to hunt around to find even the rudiments of information about what was going on before I could begin to understand the narrative behind the stamps. I even got a subscription to Honduran new issues. There aren't many. And, like its Central American neighbors, Honduras is promoting itself as an ecotourism destination, so many of the new stamps are quite attractive.
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Post by eggdog on Aug 20, 2021 3:09:31 GMT
Here's another Honduran stamp, also from 1980. "Alfabetizacion obligatoria", according to the Internet, translates as "mandatory literacy". I don't know how the education authorities intended to enforce that, so I wonder if in this context it means something more like "reading must be taught in every school". Or else the authorities were very self-confident.
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 6, 2021 15:25:04 GMT
Issue from Spain in 1969 for the bicentennial of the foundation of San Diego, California. The design is meant to convey the benefits of civilization being brought by the Spanish colonizers to the New World, and would likely not pass muster today.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 5, 2022 10:46:42 GMT
Issue from Morocco in 1970 for the UNESCO World Year of Education:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 6, 2022 21:13:32 GMT
Issues from Tunisia in 1965 for a girl student's residence:
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cursus
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Post by cursus on Feb 13, 2022 11:22:31 GMT
1961 Swedish Royal Library. By Master Slania...
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 21, 2022 17:09:11 GMT
Two new issues from Spanish Andorra, including a funky parallelogram shape to really give the stamp a book feel:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jul 5, 2022 17:57:45 GMT
New issue from Germany remembering Herzog August:
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Sept 3, 2022 15:52:43 GMT
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sharonb
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What I collect: Used only - Australia, Great Britain, Canada, Ireland, Western Europe, and Scandinavia, from 1900 to date. That keeps me busy. To be honest I am trying to avoid becoming a WW collector.
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Post by sharonb on Sept 4, 2022 1:24:49 GMT
This is an interesting topic I have to admit to admiring various stamps commemorating authors and thier work but I had not thought about just books. Are you going to collect the history of the book - ie printing, libraries, an illuminated manuscripts etc? What about the history of literacy - I guess even though some countries have stamps about literacy programs its stretching it a bit. The compliment to reading would be writing I guess that is going too far. This could be a very big topic and lots of fun.
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Post by salentin on Sept 4, 2022 16:12:44 GMT
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Sept 24, 2022 20:58:19 GMT
Two stamps from Tunisia using books as allegories for knowledge and their constitution:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 23, 2022 15:34:48 GMT
Sheet of 16 stamps issued by Libya for the World Book Day in 1998. There are some books scattered about on the stamps, but the main theme is children's education, with one stamp per school subject, 8 for boys schooling and 8 for girls schooling.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 27, 2022 9:50:52 GMT
From a set of 4 stamps issued by Ghana in 2000, promoting home economics, this stamp showing a woman reading a school textbook on the subject:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 21, 2022 20:06:11 GMT
Stamp issued by Italy in 1989 in honour of its book printing industry:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 2, 2023 15:13:17 GMT
New issue from Germany, honouring Heinrich Heine on his 225th birthday, with a quote which sentiment I would roughly translate as: "Where one burns books, one also burns humanity":
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 14, 2023 16:18:10 GMT
What better pastime for the long austral night(s) than reading descriptions of the land surrounding you?
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Post by salentin on Feb 15, 2023 14:21:53 GMT
Issued Aug.20th,2003. (from a set of 4)
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Post by eggdog on Feb 15, 2023 19:18:08 GMT
New issue from Germany, honouring Heinrich Heine on his 225th birthday, with a quote which sentiment I would roughly translate as: "Where one burns books, one also burns humanity" I've read some of Heine's poetry in translation. I'm not usually very responsive to poetry, but my next major mental project is to learn enough German to be able to read this guy in the original. Even understanding about 30 percent of the words 1, I can tell this one is much more pointed in German: I had a lovely homeland long ago. The oak trees seemed So tall there, and the violets blew so sweet. It was a dream. It kissed me in German, spoke in German (You’d scarce believe How good it sounds) the words: I love you true!’ It was a dream.1 I probably would understand more if I had any comprehension of German grammar, which seems to swallow some otherwise fine, upstanding words. I started to learn German in college, but dropped out because the time I had to spend trying to understand calculus pushed my workload over the edge. I'll try to come up with some book stamps on my own.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 17, 2023 21:16:22 GMT
Two new issues from Australia, in water-activated and self-adhesive gum types, celebrating 150 years of public education in the country:
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 25, 2023 20:14:03 GMT
New stamp from France, honoring Madame de La Fayette, author of the first modern French Novel, La Princesse de Clèves, still part of the school curriculum today:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 16, 2023 21:24:41 GMT
New issue from Switzerland, book-shaped self-adhesive stamp showing Le Petit Prince from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2023 22:27:50 GMT
Here's a set of five Icelandic stamps from 1953. S. Jónsson is the designer, and the printer is De La Rue.
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