Czechoslovakia: Hradcany Issue, 1918 - 1920

Love this page BC.
Is a blank page, (Printable) able to be purchased?
I keep multiple pages of these stamps, and they trump Mr. Steiner's.

Whilst n the subject, I have a set of Cinderellas, American Presidents,
Are you able to construct a page of just blank oblongs to suit?

Thanks Rod and JKJblue!

Rod, I made my Hradcany pages with MS Publisher. I have a template for the border and add the stamp borders as required. Publisher is a simple program to use.

I can make any page you want, no charge, it just takes minutes.

I will post the rest of my Hradcany pages later.

The Czechoslovak Specialist reprinted Velek's AP article in 1956. The images aren't too clear but the descriptions are legible.


www.czechoslovakphilately.org/pdf/1956_03_Mar.pdf


www.czechoslovakphilately.org/pdf/1956_05_May.pdf


Currently the digitized AP archive only goes back to 2007 but the AP webpage states that "In the near future we will be providing full archives of all AP's along with some great search features."

Thanks for the links Steve, I had not seen those either

I have some partial sheets of the 3H.

Oh Rod it is just modern technology - a few mouse clicks and Hunt-and-Peck keyboarding

My sheet is plate 2, it does not have the varieties above.

Thanks for posting that link Ryan! Very handy. It has been bookmarked for future reference.

Hradcany Castle.



More stamps of the castle.

On October 28, 1918, when Czechoslovakia became independent, there were no experienced artists, printing houses or printers able to produce postage stamps and as a consequence of the end of the war – a great shortage of all kinds of printing material of the appropriate quality.
As a result, the first Czechoslovakian stamp – with a drawing of Hradcany – was printed by typography and initially released imperforate. Their production was a result of constant experimentation with three productions methods, six sequential designs, and variations in the quality and type of paper, colors, gums, and perforations.
The artist, Alphonse Mucha was born on July 24, 1860. He worked in the painting workshop of the Vienna State Opera, and from there to Munich and later on to Paris. There he worked as a drawing teacher in the Collaro Academy, and later on founded his own school.
In 1903, he left for The United States of America, where he taught at art academies in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
Alphonse Mucha was a long-time philatelist. In addition to the design for the Hradcany stamp, Mucha designed the newspaper, postage due, and express stamps for the years 1918–1920, and he also designed the Husite Priest with Chalice released in 1920.

The Hradcany series offers the collector more than just basic stamps. Because of the inexperience of the printers, we find heavy or lightly embossed printings, slipped or doubled prints, prints on the gummed side, press offsets, fogs, blotches or foreign particles, blurred, pale, smudges, ink-blobs and dirty prints, partials, displacements and folded paper prints, uneven and missing gum, double and staggered perforations, missing or else extra perforations, blind or misshapen holes, not to mention, a host of plate flaws.

A very inspiring display of nicely canceled stamps, and I admire your pages too. I may have to form a collection of these too. Hope to see more and thanks for sharing with us BC.