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 Aug 26, 2021 16:11:52 GMT
The great Robert Burns
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WERT
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What I collect: Canada and Provinces
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Post by WERT on Aug 26, 2021 16:25:04 GMT
cursus..Nice to see Robbie Burns stamps.
Here is a bit of Robert Burns history...My grand mother years ago gave me the letter below telling me i was a relative of Robbie Burns { on grand mother side } Also a pic of me at 10 years old...See the resemblance.
Also another person related to him is the designer Tommy Hilfiger. Kinda neat eh..?? Robert
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vikingeck
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What I collect: Samoa, Tobacco theme, Mail in Wartime, anything odd and unusual!
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Post by vikingeck on Aug 26, 2021 16:28:26 GMT
Thanks for these two cursus , you beat me to it Joan! |
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cursus
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Posts: 1,770
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 Aug 26, 2021 16:38:41 GMT
You're welcome, Alec You know that I love Scotland and its people. How to forget Burns?
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tobben63
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Stamp eat sleep repeat
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What I collect: I collect to much, world wide!
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Post by tobben63 on Aug 26, 2021 18:06:04 GMT
Then I will fill in with some Norwegian poets.  Halfdan Kjerulf  Herman Wildenvey  Ivar Aasen  Knut Hamsun |
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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 Aug 27, 2021 8:11:04 GMT
Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902) Catalonia's national poet.
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Linda
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Ex-mathematician turned visual artist and touring cyclist to bike across Canada, Europe, Japan etc.
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What I collect: Mostly Canadian and European stamps about art / science / landscape
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Post by Linda on Jul 2, 2022 16:10:29 GMT
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918) contributed to various literary fields but is best remembered (at least for me) as a poet. France issued this stamp in 1961 in honour of him:  From my high school study of French literature, I remember best his Calligrammes, which is a collection of poems written in free verses that are arranged in a way to visually represent the themes of the poems. Exemple taken from Wikipedia:  |
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Linda
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Ex-mathematician turned visual artist and touring cyclist to bike across Canada, Europe, Japan etc.
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What I collect: Mostly Canadian and European stamps about art / science / landscape
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Post by Linda on Jul 11, 2022 11:01:12 GMT
France issued in 1991 a series of 6 stamps that commemorate 6 French poets who have been associated with the surrealist movement. They are: - Louis Aragon(1897 - 1982)
- André Breton (1896 - 1966)
- René Char (1907 - 1988)
- Paul Éluard (1895 - 1952)
- Francis Ponge (1899 - 1988)
- Jacques Prévert (1900 - 1977)
Here are two maxicards with the Aragon stamp and the Char stamp:   Of all of them, I regard Jacques Prévert most highly, but my favourite poem by this group of poets is « Liberté (Freedom) » (1942) by Paul Éluard. In high school, I used to print out a copy of this poem and fix it on my door. My younger sister who later majored in French literature thought it was a love poem, and was arguing with me that the last word 'Liberté' (freedom) was added by me to make it sounding like an anti-war poem. To prove that the last word was there in the original poem, I went to the bookstore to place a special order of Paul Éluard's poetry collection that contained this poem, which has long since been out of print in Quebec, and waited a month or so for the book to arrive from France.  [Pictured: manuscript of « Liberté (Freedom) » (1942) by Paul Éluard.] |
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Jul 21, 2022 15:06:35 GMT
Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) was a French poet notable for his at times controversial collections Les Fleurs du mal (1857) and Le Spleen de Paris (1869). He was an important figure in the symbolist movement who dealt with the main theme of decadence. He has been commemorated twice in France's postal history. The first stamp was issued in 1951, the second in 2021 on the occasion of his birth bicentenary. 
Here is a Monaco FDC showing the commemorative stamp of Baudelaire issued 1972 on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary:  |
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Aug 8, 2022 15:02:23 GMT
Paul Claudel (1868 - 1955) was a French poet, essayist and dramatist, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel, August Rodin's one-time lover. This stamp of Claudel was issued in France in 1968 on the occasion of his birth centenary as part of the series Famous People that includes the stamp of the composer François Couperin.  |
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Linda
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Ex-mathematician turned visual artist and touring cyclist to bike across Canada, Europe, Japan etc.
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What I collect: Mostly Canadian and European stamps about art / science / landscape
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Post by Linda on Sept 5, 2022 12:24:17 GMT
This year marks the birth centenary of the Polish poet Miron Białoszewski (1922 - 1983). This is a newly issued Polish stamp in honour of him:  |
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angore
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What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Sept 5, 2022 13:38:35 GMT
I mounted these today! I only knew them as poets when I was identifying the catalog numbers. Scott No. 406 and 407.   |
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dorincard
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What I collect: My focus is on Wild Mammals on maximum cards. Occasionally, I get or create maximum cards with other animals, or any other topic.
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Post by dorincard on Sept 5, 2022 16:06:08 GMT
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Post by GFPhilatelist on Sept 6, 2022 1:49:37 GMT
Uruguayan poets and writers  |
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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 6, 2022 4:41:59 GMT
In 1968 Australia released a booklet of famous Australians and Banjo Paterson was included  |
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