Polish Postal Service 40th Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising

POLISH POSTAL SERVICE on 1 August 1984 issued a stamp series entitled "The 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising". The stamps were designed by Wojciech Freudenreich, the author of many stamps and book covers, including "Pamiętnik z powstania warszawskiego" by Miron Białoszewski and "Warszawa jaka była". His designs incorporated  black and white photographs and were enhanced with white and red as well as red elements such as insurgent armbands, the Scout Field Post stamp and the Red Cross emblem. Photographs in this series depicted the following: a group of soldiers at an assembly (4 złotych), an insurgent carrying letters (5 złotych), a group of soldiers in combat (6 złotych) and the wounded being dressed by the medical service (25 złotych).

The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie; German: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led by the Polish resistance Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa). The uprising was timed to coincide with the retreat of the German forces from Poland ahead of the Soviet advance. While approaching the eastern suburbs of the city, the Red Army temporarily halted combat operations(some historians suggest deliberately), thus enabling the Germans to regroup and defeat the Polish resistance and to destroy the city in retaliation. The Uprising was fought for 63 days with little outside support. It was the single largest military effort taken by any European resistance movement during World War II.

The destruction of the Polish capital was  intentional and planned before the start of World War II. On 20 June 1939, while Adolf Hitler was visiting an architectural bureau in Würzburg am Main, his attention was captured by a project of a future German town – "Neue deutsche Stadt Warschau". According to the Pabst Plan Warsaw was to be turned into a provincial German city. It was soon included as a part of the great Germanization plan of the East; the genocidal Generalplan Ost. The failure of the Warsaw Uprising provided an opportunity for Hitler to begin the transformation.

By January 1945, 85% of the buildings were destroyed: 25% as a result of the Uprising, 35% as a result of systematic German actions after the uprising, and the rest as a result of the earlier Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the September 1939 campaign. Material losses are estimated at 10,455 buildings, 923 historical buildings (94%), 25 churches, 14 libraries including the National Library, 81 primary schools, 64 high schools, University of Warsaw and Warsaw University of Technology, and most of the historical monuments. Almost a million inhabitants lost all of their possessions. The exact amount of losses of private and public property as well as pieces of art, monuments of science and culture is unknown but considered enormous. Studies done in the late 1940s estimated total damage at about US$30 billion. In 2004, President of Warsaw Lech Kaczyński, later President of Poland, established a historical commission to estimate material losses that were inflicted upon the city by German authorities. The commission estimated the losses as at least US$31.5 billion at 2004 values. Those estimates were later raised to US$45 billion 2004 US dollars and in 2005, to $54.6 billion.

Source: Wikipedia and historian/writer Maciej Białecki

Deutsche Post 50th Anniversary of the End of WWII

DEUTSCHE POST on 5 May 1995 issued a stamp block on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII. The two stamps included show a destroyed building and people displaced from their homes. Outside the main stamps is a dissolved image of rubble, illustrating the immense destruction.

Deutsche Post 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps

DEUTSCHE POST on 5 May 1995 issued a souvenir sheet on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps at the end of the WWII. One stamp with blue-and-white prison stripes, tattooed serial number and barbed-wire refers to the uniforms of the internees. Outside the main stamp is a list of the concentration camps, albeit not all the camps, but the major ones.

Deutsche Post 350th anniversary of the Westphalia Peace Treaty.

DEUTSCHE POST on 1998 issued a commemorative stamp marking the 350th anniversary of the Westphalia Peace Treaty. The image used for this stamp is from an original woodcut printing, and it bears the names and faces of the signatories of this treaty.

The Peace of Westphalia (Westfälischer Friede) is the collective name for two peace treaties signed in October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. They ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and Eighty Years' War (1568–1648), and brought peace to the Holy Roman Empire, closing a calamitous period of European history that killed approximately eight million people. The Holy Roman Emperor (Ferdinand III of Habsburg), the Spanish Empire, the kingdoms of France and Sweden, the United Provinces (Netherlands), and their respective allies among the princes of the Holy Roman Empire participated in these treaties.

The four main points of the Peace of Westphalia included:
- National self-determination;
- Precedent for ending wars through diplomatic congresses;
- Peaceful coexistence among sovereign states as the norm;
- Maintained by a balance of power among sovereign states and acceptance of principle of non-  interference in the internal affairs of other sovereign states.

As a result of the Treaty of Westphalia, the Netherlands gained independence from Spain, Sweden gained control of the Baltic and France was acknowledged as the preeminent Western power. The power of the Holy Roman Emperor was broken and the German states were again able to determine the religion of their lands.

Equally, perhaps more, important the Westphalian system remains the model for international politics around the world and the concept of state sovereignty, solidified by the peace, is still the basis for modem international treaties and conventions.

 

Source: Wikipedia

Canada Post Communication Technology - Sir Stanford Fleming and Guglielmo Marconi

CANADA POST on 31 October 2002 issued a dual stamp set honouring Communication Technology pioneers Sir Sanford Fleming (The Pacific Cable) and Guglielmo Marconi (Wireless Telegraphy). Five million of these se-tenants were printed. The printer was Lowe-Martin Company Inc.

Sir Sandford Fleming FRSC KCMG (1827 –1915) was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use of the 24-hour clock as key elements to communicating the accurate time, all of which influenced the creation of Coordinated Universal Time. He designed Canada's first postage stamp, produced a great deal of work in the fields of land surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the first several hundred kilometers of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Canadian Institute (a science organisation in Toronto).

Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi FRSA (1874 –1937) was an Italian (and Irish on his mother's side) inventor and electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system. This led to Marconi being credited as the inventor of radio,  and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy"

Source: Wikipedia and Canada Post

Yugoslavia 500th anniversary of the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.

Yugoslavia in 1992 released their EUROPA Stamps which marked  the 500th anniversary of the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.

La Poste France Honoured Ahmad Shah Massoud

LA POSTE FRANCE on 9 September 2003 issued a first day cover stamp honouring Ahmad Shah Massoud. This Rotogravure stamp was designed by Taraskoff. Cancellation postmark originated from Paris, France. La Poste France printed 4,363,193 copies.

Ahmad Shah Massoud (احمد شاه مسعود, September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001) was an Afghan politician and military commander. He was a powerful guerrilla commander during the resistance against the Soviet occupation between 1979 and 1989. In the 1990s, he led the government's military wing against rival militias; after the Taliban takeover, he was the leading opposition commander against their regime until his assassination in 2001.

Massoud came from an ethnic Tajik, Sunni Muslim background in the Panjshir Valley of Northern Afghanistan.This admirer of General de Gaulle, a former student of the French high school in Kabul, organized the resistance and fought against the Red Army with a rudimentary arsenal. He began studying engineering at Polytechnical University of Kabul in the 1970s, where he became involved with religious anti-communist movements around Burhanuddin Rabbani, a leading Islamist. He participated in a failed uprising against Mohammed Daoud Khan's government. He later joined Rabbani's Jamiat-e Islami party. During the Soviet–Afghan War, his role as a powerful insurgent leader of the Afghan mujahideen earned him the nickname "Lion of Panjshir" (شیر پنجشیر) among his followers, as he successfully resisted the Soviets from taking the Panjshir Valley.

In February 2021, the Council of Paris in France honored Massoud by installing a plaque in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The decision reflected Massoud's unique connections with France. In March 2021, the Mayor of Paris named a pathway in the Champs-Élysées gardens after Massoud. The ceremony was attended by Massoud's son and former president Hamid Karzai.

Deutsche Post 100th Anniversary of Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

DEUTSCHE POST on 10 August 1995 issued a stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. A total of 29,680,000 stamps were printed, of which  324,000 released as first day covers. The cancellation postmark originated from Bonn. The cachet depicts the Memorial Church. A certificate of authenticity was included in this rather large envelope.

The Protestant Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (or Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche , colloquially known as the Gedächtniskirche and in the Berlin dialect "Hohler Zahn") is on Breitscheidplatz between Kurfürstendamm, Tauentzienstrasse and Budapester Strasse in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg. The preserved vestibule of the former church is now a museum and war memorial.

During the air raids on Berlin, the church building caught fire on the night of 23 November 1943, which led to the collapse of the roof structure over the nave and the tip of the main tower snapping off. The National Socialists promised the community that the destroyed Memorial Church in post-war Berlin would be rebuilt just as large and magnificent. In contrast, the victorious powers of the Second World War found this plan relatively difficult; the building also reflected Wilhelmine-German national pride. So the ruins were left to decay for the time being.

 

In March 1957, it was decided to renovate the church. The 71 meter high ruin of the old main tower remained, structurally secured, as a memorial against the war, surrounded by a four-part building ensemble based on architect Egon Eiermann's designs. An octagonal nave and a rectangular foyer to the west of the old truncated tower and a hexagonal bell tower and a chapel, also rectangular, to the east of it. On May 9, 1959, the cornerstone was laid for the new building.

The damaged remains of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church serves as a sobering reminder of a war Germany initiated and prosecuted, the result of which is a symbol of what war brings to any nation, not just Germany -- death and destruction. 

USPS Great Americans Series - Sequoyah

USPS on 27 December 1980 issued  the Sequoyah stamp, the first in their Great Americans series. This simple monochromatic series included a portrait, “USA,” the denomination, the person’s name, and in some cases, their occupation or reason for recognition.

The image of this brown coloured stamp was based on a full-color portrait of Sequoyah, painted in 1965 by Charles Banks Wilson, which currently hangs in the Oklahoma state capital. The postmark cancellation of the stamp originated in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing used an engraved method. It featured 11 x 10 1/2 perforations.

 

Sequoyah, a skilled silversmith without a formal education, understood the importance of the written word or “talking leaves” of the non-Native settlers, and set out to devise a method of writing using 85 symbols to represent all the vowel and consonant sounds that formed the Cherokee language.Sequoyah’s syllabary was completed around 1821 using Roman, Greek, and Hebrew symbols. 

 

In creating this alphabet, Sequoyah enabled thousands of other Cherokees to read and write. It was used to publish books, newspapers, hymnals, and hand bills. In 1824, he translated parts of the Bible, and four years later, he established the first weekly Cherokee newspaper.

Deutsche Bundespost 1974 World Cup Champion - West Germany

DEUTSCHE BUNDESPOST on 15 May 1974 issued two FIFA World Cup Football stamps. In that year, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) hosted the World Cup and as it turned out their national team eventually won the event. The green .30 pfennig stamp depicted West German goal keeper Horst Wolter, whereas the orange .40 pfennig stamp showed a game shot of a West German player against opponents. Postmark cancellations originated from World Cup venues in Bonn, Dortmund, Munich, Stuttgart and elsewhere. It was designed by Poel.

The final round of the 1974 World Cup took place from June 13 to July 7, 1974 in the Federal Republic of Germany. West Germany won the tournament with a 2-1 victory over the Netherlands in the final which was held in Munich, and thus the West  German team became Football World Champion for the second time, after 1954 (Germany would repeat the feat not once, but twice in 1990 and 2014). The third place went to the team of Poland, who had the top scorer in Grzegorz Lato with seven goals during the tournament. Defending champions Brazil finished fourth, while the 1970 runner-up (Italy) was eliminated in the first round.

Deutsche Post "Kosovo - Hilfe"

DEUTSCHE POST on 27  April 1999 released a first day cover stamp "Kosovo - Hilfe". It was designed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Poste Italiane Death Bicentenary of Napoleon Bonaparte

POSTE ITALIANE on 5 May 2021 released a stamp commemorating Napoleon Bonaparte on the bicentenary of his death. It was issued in cooperation with the European Federation of Napoleonic Cities, whose logo is affixed at the bottom left. The stamp was reproduced from a painting by Andrea Appiani entitled "Portrait of Napoleon, King of Italy", kept in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan.

A three-part A4 philatelic folder, presenting the stamp and the work of the Federation and containing a set of four stamps, a single stamp, a postcard with postage due and a first-day cover was also released on this date.

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), and later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. Born on the island of Corsica, Napoleon rapidly rose through the ranks of the military during the French Revolution (1789-1799). After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d’état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804. Shrewd, ambitious and a skilled military strategist, Napoleon successfully waged war against various coalitions of European nations and expanded his empire. However, after a disastrous French invasion of Russia in 1812, Napoleon abdicated the throne two years later and was exiled to the island of Elba. In 1815, he briefly returned to power in his Hundred Days campaign. After a crushing defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, he abdicated once again and was exiled to the remote island of Saint Helena, where he died at 51. Napoleon's political and cultural legacy has endured, and he remains one of the most celebrated and controversial leaders in world history.

Deutsche Post 50th Death Anniversary of Richard Strauss

DEUTSCHE POST on 16th September 1999 issued a 300 Pf. (German pfennig) stamp commemorating the 50th Death Anniversary of Richard Strauss, a 20th century classical music composer. This multicoloured offset lithograph featured an older image of Strauss and a scene from his opera "Salome", Op. 54. Perforation comb was 13¼. Size was 35 x 35 mm. Some 30,800,000 copies were printed. The postmark cancellation on this envelope originated from Bonn, and the design incorporates sheet music and instruments used in this composition.

Strauss based the opera on  the 1891 French play "Salomé" by Oscar Wilde. The opera is famous (at the time of its premiere, infamous) for its "Dance of the Seven Veils". The final scene is frequently heard as a concert-piece for dramatic sopranos. The combination of the Christian biblical theme, the erotic and the murderous, which attracted Wilde to the tale, shocked opera audiences from its first appearance. "Salome" was first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on 9 December 1905, and within two years, it had been given in 50 other opera houses. The objection to perform it had much to do about the "Dance of the Seven Veils". Princess Salome is asked to dance for King Herod Antipas. He wants to divorce his first wife and take Salome. his former sister-in-law as wife. She refuses until she asks for the head of Jochanaan (John the Baptist or Yaḥyā ibn Zakarīyā) who Herod Antipas fears and has had imprisoned. This is because Jochanaan has been informed that the marriage might be incestuous, and does not approve of the marriage, thus his imprisonment and decapitation. Some Islamic scholars believe Yaḥyā ibn Zakarīyā's head is inside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a composer, conductor, pianist, and violinist. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. Along with Gustav Mahler, he represents the late flowering of German Romanticism, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.

Canada Post Terry Fox Marathon of Hope -- 150th Anniversary of Canada

CANADA POST on 25 May 2021 honored Terry Fox in their series of 10 stamps dedicated to the 150 anniversary of the Dominion of  Canada. The "Marathon of Hope" stamp shows Fox running in his iconic Marathon of Hope T-shirt. He was the sixth recipient of a special  maple-leaf-shaped stamp as well as another commemorative stamp depicting a torch. Under UV light, the stamp's paper emits a moderate bluish-white glow and the fluorescent frame glows yellow-white. A ceremony launching the issuance of this stamp was held at City Hall in St. John’s, the capital of Newfoundland. It was not far from here that Terry took the first step in his epic "Terry Fox Marathon of Hope" on 12 April 1980, with his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean.

Terrance Stanley Fox CC OD (July 28, 1958 – June 28, 1981) was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated due to cancer, he embarked on an east to west cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. Although the spread of his cancer eventually forced him to end his quest after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (3,339 mi), and which ultimately cost him his life, his efforts resulted in a lasting, worldwide legacy. The annual Terry Fox Run, first held in 1981, has grown to involve millions of participants in over 60 countries and is now the world's largest one-day fundraiser for cancer research; over C$800 million has been raised in his name as of April 2020.

While recovering in the hospital after being diagnosed with bone cancer at age 18 and having most of his right leg amputated, Terry saw the suffering of other cancer patients, especially children, and wanted to do something about it. His answer was his personal Marathon of Hope.

Canada Post said of the Canada 150 Marathon of Hope stamp: “On April 12, 1980, Terry Fox embarked on a quest to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. He ran nearly a full marathon a day before he was forced to abandon his run in Thunder Bay, Ontario, when his cancer spread. Fox died at age 22 in 1981 but his legacy has lived on; the annual Terry Fox run has raised more than $700 million worldwide as on 2021."

USPS The Memorial Set of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 

USPS in 1946 issued four Memorial stamps to honour President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the months following his death.

The stamps included:
1¢ FDR and Hyde Park – This stamp commemorates Franklin Roosevelt and the place of his birth, Hyde Park, NY.  He lived at Hyde Park until enrolling in preparatory school at the age of 14.

2¢ FDR and Little White House – This stamp commemorates the time President Roosevelt spent at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia.  As therapy following an attack of polio, Franklin Roosevelt swam in the warm mineral pools of Warm Springs, Georgia.  In an effort to help polio victims afford treatment, Roosevelt bought the land surrounding the springs and established The Warm Springs Foundation.

3¢ FDR and White House – During his time at the White House, Roosevelt successfully led America through both the Great Depression and World War II.  He also became America’s only four-term president.

5¢ FDR and Four Freedoms – This stamp commemorates Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech that he delivered to Congress on January 6, 1941.  The four freedoms are the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom to worship God in one’s own way, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.  He concluded his speech stating that, “Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), thirty-second president of the United States, served an unprecedented four terms. Elected during the Great Depression, he served into World War II. He died at 63, on the eve of complete military victory in Europe and within months of victory over Japan in the Pacific.

The rewards of stamp collecting blessed much of FDR’s life. As a child, he looked to stamps for knowledge about the world. As a polio-stricken adult, they offered solace. Throughout his entire life, including his presidency, he spent time each day with his collection. During the 1930s, he and Postmaster General James A. Farley enthusiastically brainstormed over stamp designs, colors, and themes. Roosevelt actually sketched numerous ideas for stamp designs.

The time each day spent with his stamps relaxed President Roosevelt during those very tense times. He claimed, “I owe my life to my hobbies – especially stamp collecting.” His son James recollected, “I have vivid memories of Father sitting at his desk when he had a half hour or hour with no appointments . . . with his stamp books and an expression of complete relaxation and enjoyment on his face.”  In addition to enjoying his stamps privately each day, FDR joined stamp clubs, bought stamps from dealers and in auction, and promoted the hobby by association with stamp shows such as the 1936 international exhibition TIPEX in New York City.

Deutsche Bundespost 100th Anniversary of Martin Niemöller.

DEUTSCHE BUNDESPOST on 9 January 1992 issued a commemorative stamp marking the 100th birth anniversary of Martin Niemöller. This multicoloured stamp was designed by Gerd Aretz and printed by Bundesdruckerei. It measured 33 x 28 mm with a comb14 x 13¾ perforation. Apparently this offset lithography stamp used a fluorescent paper and carried a 100 Pf. - German pfennig denomination. Print run was 31,284,000. The postmark cancellation originated from Berlin, Germany

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984) was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known for his opposition to the Nazi regime during the late 1930s and for his widely quoted 1946 poem "First they came ...".

The poem exists in many versions; the one featured on the United States Holocaust Memorial reads: "First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

Niemöller was a national conservative and initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler and a self-identified antisemite, but he became one of the founders of the Confessing Church, which opposed the Nazification of German Protestant churches. He opposed the Nazis' Aryan Paragraph. For his opposition to the Nazis' state control of the churches, Niemöller was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps from 1938 to 1945. He narrowly escaped execution. After his imprisonment, he expressed his deep regret about not having done enough to help victims of the Nazis. He turned away from his earlier nationalistic beliefs and was one of the initiators of the Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt. From the 1950s on, he was a vocal pacifist and anti-war activist, and vice-chair of War Resisters' International from 1966 to 1972.

 His visit to North Vietnam's communist ruler Ho Chi Minh at the height of the Vietnam War caused an uproar. Niemöller also took active part in protests against the Vietnam War and the NATO Double-Track Decision.

In 1961, he became president of the World Council of Churches. He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in December 1966.

He gave a sermon at the 30 April 1967 dedication of a Protestant "Church of Atonement" in the former Dachau concentration camp, which in 1965 had been partially restored as a memorial site.

Niemöller died at Wiesbaden, West Germany, on 6 March 1984, at the age of 92.

Source: Wikipedia

Deutsche Bundespost Goethe's Doctor Johannes Faust

DEUTSCHE BUNDESPOST on 14 November 1979 issued a stamp depicting Goethe's Doctor Johannes Faust with Homunculus and Mephistopheles. It was based on a woodcut made in 1616. Six-color offset printing method was used with K 14 perforations. Cancellation postmark originated from Bonn, West Germany.

The cachet on the envelope is a scene at Auerbach’s Tavern, which is a nod to the long line of Faust myths and folklore that came before Goethe’s epic. Auerbach’s Tavern was  a real and well-known drinking establishment in the city of Leipzig. It opened its doors in 1438, and Goethe himself was a patron while a student at the University of Leipzig. The intentions of the scene, in folklore, are to show Faust making his transition from doctor, chemist, and magician to a more drunken or debauched state as he is slowly tempted by the Devil. In the legend, Faust performs tricks of magic and flies away from the tavern on a barrel of wine, just as a witch would fly away on her broom.

The legend of Faust is an old one, and one that preceded Goethe's version. In Goethe's incarnation Dr. Faustus  is disillusioned with life and frustrated due to the limited scope of man's knowledge. Dr. Johannes Faustus decides to sell his soul to Lucifer in order to obtain power over the demon Mephistopheles. Through this demon, Faustus is able to travel far and wide, as well as learn and perform different types of magic.

 Goethe’s play, which contains an array of epic, lyric, dramatic, operatic, and balletic elements, ranges through various poetic metres and styles to present an immensely varied cultural commentary that draws upon theology, mythology, philosophy, political economy, science, aesthetics, music, and literature. In the end Goethe saves Faust by bringing about his purification and redemption.

Czechoslovakia Post 40th Anniversary of Radio Prague and National Radio Broadcasting

CZECHOSLOVAKIA POST on 18 May 1963 issued two first day cover stamps to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Radio Prague and national radio broadcasting in Czechoslovakia.