renden
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Post by renden on Dec 21, 2021 17:50:01 GMT
Quiz: Find the error... Who will find the error will get one of those stamps BERLIN (Reuters) - A sheet of 10 rare postage stamps featuring film star Audrey Hepburn smoking a cigarette, with a face value of 56 cents, were auctioned off for charity in Berlin and fetched some 430,000 euros ($600,000). The German Postal Service printed 14 million of the commemorative stamps in 2001 without obtaining the rights to the picture. When Hepburn’s children objected to the stamps, most of them were destroyed.
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REL1948
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Post by REL1948 on Dec 21, 2021 18:02:26 GMT
Hello René , Spoiler alert, I read about this recently. In the original shots from the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Hepburn had sunglasses in her mouth but the stamp designers substituted a cigarette holder for them. There was considerable controversy over the stamp by the Hepburn Heirs and Germany destroyed any remaining stocks of the stamps BUT before they did that a few were used postally and hence became overnight sensations in the philatelic world.
Rob
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ameis33
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Post by ameis33 on Dec 21, 2021 18:02:32 GMT
Got it... I've told Peter he could get the up-left corner of the sheet... you can get the right one... PS! But as René told, i don't have this sheet anymore... so you have to please yourself with the photo...
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renden
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Post by renden on Dec 21, 2021 18:11:33 GMT
ameis33.............not fair ice Quiz and I did not respond well
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ameis33
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Post by ameis33 on Dec 21, 2021 19:51:35 GMT
The stamp and a picture from the movie.
And another famous picture, this, yes with a cigaret
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Dec 21, 2021 21:02:10 GMT
I think Women on Stamps could be an interesting endeavor if one left out royalty, and concentrated on their achievements philatelically.
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angore
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Post by angore on Dec 22, 2021 11:31:14 GMT
Madonna (Virgin Mary)
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 29, 2021 13:39:46 GMT
Recent St-Pierre-et-Miquelon issue honouring Augusta Le Huenen, who joined the Free French Forces as a radio operator:
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 13, 2022 22:24:02 GMT
Series from Zimbabwe in 2002 remembering Sally Mugabe, first First Lady of the country, on the tenth anniversary of her death:
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 15, 2022 13:53:29 GMT
New souvenir sheet from the TAAF honouring atmospheric scientist Bénédicte Ardouin, who did a lot of field work in the territory and specialized in the measurement of trace radioactive isotopes and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere far from anthropogenic sources:
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Feb 16, 2022 10:24:45 GMT
hrdoktox had shown this stamp before in his post from Sept.26th,2020. Quite an interesting stamp,what can need some explanation.
Issued Sept.3rd,2020
Lore Lorentz was born as L.Schirmer in Mährisch Ostrau (Moravská Ostrava) in Czeschoslovakia. She studied history,germanistic and philosophy in Vienna and Berlin. In Berlin she met a co-student Kay Lorentz,whoem she married in 1944,when he was conscripted to the eastern front. In 1947 they opened a Kabarett (satirical political literary revue) theatre in Düsseldorf,named Kom(m)ödchen.
Kommödchen is the (northern german) diminutiv for Kommode,i.e chest of drawers.That is where Lore is sitting on. However it could also be the (non-existing) diminutiv of Komödie = comedy.
Kay worked as director and text-writer,while Lore was the "front-woman" of ensemble.
Lore later also had a solo-career as an actor and entertainer. After Kay´s death,she took over as director for a short time,followed by her son,who leds the Kom(m)ödchen till today.
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Feb 17, 2022 13:27:16 GMT
150th birth-anniversary of Ricarda Huch author of novels and poetry,teacher,philosopher and eminent historian. Her personal life and her political views were anything but common and conformistic. Kein Fürchten soll mich lähmen = No fear shall cripple (paralyse) me
Issued July 3rd,2014. Another stamp honouring Ricarda Huch,was issued in 1975. (see post in this thread from May 13th,2019)
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Feb 21, 2022 16:43:07 GMT
Pina Bausch,dancer,choreographer,teacher and theatre director made Wuppertal
an international centre of classical/modern dance.
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Feb 22, 2022 14:42:26 GMT
Nelly Sachs,author. (See also posts in this thread from March 28th and June 26th,2019)
The stamp,honouring Sachs´125th birthday anniversary was issued on April 7th,2016.
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Feb 23, 2022 15:01:29 GMT
The life-size sculpture by Johann Gottfried Schadow,first made in plaster,later in marble, is (are) main-attractions to be seen in Berlin. It shows two sisters,Luise and Friderike of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In 1793 the sister married,two days apart,two brothers: Friederich Wilhem (III) and Louis o Prussia. Luise was 17 and Friederike 15 years old. Luise (on the left) was a beauty.When Queen,Napoleon met her and wrote enthusiastic to his wife, about Luise´s beauty.However Luise died already in 1810,just 34 years of age.But that even helped her fame. She was the mother of the later emperor Wilhelm I. Friedrike´s husband Louis died just three years after their marriage.She married twice again.Her third husband was the Duke of Cumberland,who became King of Hannover,when the roayl houses of Hannover and Britain had
to be splitted,because Victoria could not become queen of Hannover,as only males could become ruler.
Stamp issued Oct.11th,2018.
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Feb 24, 2022 13:43:33 GMT
Marie Juchacz,issued Jan.2nd,2019. There are two more stamps,issued commemorating Marie Juchacz. See posts in this thread of April 5th and May 7th,2019.
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Feb 25, 2022 9:25:38 GMT
Annemarie Renger born into a social-democratic family,was a lifelong member of the SPD. As a leading member of the right wing of the party,she served in many functions. From 1953 till 1990 member of the "Bundestag",(West-) Germany´s parliament,she became the first woman worldwide,to chair a freely elected parliament (1972-76). Stamp issued Oct.10th,2019.
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Feb 26, 2022 15:19:35 GMT
Rahel Hirsch (1870-1953) was the first woman in Prussia to be awarded the title of a (medical) professor. However as no professorship came with the title,she opened a surgery in one of the best locations in Berlin. When the Nazis came into power in 1933,she as a jew,was no longer allowed to treat non-jewish people. In 1938 she gave up and emigrated to London.However she was not allowed to work as a doctor,because her german diplomas were not recognized in Britain.So she had to work in some laboratories as an assistant. Later she became more and more depressed and finally ended in an asylum,where she died. Stamp issued Nov.2nd,2013.
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Feb 27, 2022 9:05:53 GMT
Elisabeth of Thuringa 800th birth anniversary. Issued Nov.8th,2007.
See also post in this thread from April 29th,2019.
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Feb 28, 2022 9:47:20 GMT
A stamp I dislike a lot.Three faceless profiles,as if there had not been many outstanding protestant women over the centuries. € 3.70 face was good for international letters up to 500 g and few other "exotic" kinds of shipments.
Issued Oct.1st,2020.
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Mar 3, 2022 19:03:19 GMT
Clara Zetkin (born as Clara Eißner) 1857-1933 was a feminist and socialist/communist politician. On a congress in Stuttgart she met Lenin,with whoem she shared a lifelong friendship.
After the first world war she joined the newly formed communist party and became one of the leading members. She became a member of the Reichstag,Germany´s parliament,in 1920 and held her seat till 1933,when the Nazis took power. A last time she had to leave Germany and went to Moscow,where she died soon after. Although she had been critical to some of Stalin´s policies,she was respected by him. He himself carried her urn to her funeral at the Kremelin´s wall in Moscow.
Stamps issued June 20th,1955,April 16th,1970 & July 5th,1957.
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 14, 2022 20:24:51 GMT
Mini-sheet from Sao Tomé e Principe honoring actress Ingrid Bergman on her 100 th birthday in 2015:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 16, 2022 20:35:35 GMT
New German stamp featuring Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: I'm sure salentin will be able to enlighten us as to her accomplishments, because my knowledge of German culture fails me on this one...
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Post by iswscwebmaster on Mar 17, 2022 0:47:14 GMT
New German stamp featuring Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: I'm sure salentin will be able to enlighten us as to her accomplishments, because my knowledge of German culture fails me on this one... According to Wikipedia she was a poet, novelist and composer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_von_Droste-Hülshoff
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salentin
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Post by salentin on Mar 17, 2022 13:15:18 GMT
Have a look at the post from April 1st,2019.
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 12, 2022 20:20:54 GMT
Souvenir sheet from Sao Tomé & Principe to mark 10 years of the chancellorship of Angela Merkel:
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 13, 2022 16:22:11 GMT
Set of 4 stamps from the Falkland Islands honouring former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher:
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 21, 2022 17:06:12 GMT
A gender balanced new self-adhesive booklet from France featuring great explorers:
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 21, 2022 20:51:04 GMT
Souvenir sheet issued by Guinea in 2012 for the 50 th anniversary of the death of Marilyn Monroe:
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JeffS
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Post by JeffS on Jun 21, 2022 20:56:58 GMT
"Souvenir sheet issued by Guinea in 2012 for the 50th anniversary of the death of Marilyn Monroe:" It distresses me that people fall for buying these manufactured things that never set foot in the alleged country of origin. I don't even include them in my Oranges Philately collection, and as you have seen, I include just about anything related.
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