VIETNAM POST in 1996 issued a series of stamps from the artworks of Nguyen Sang, among those shown here is the "Young Girl and Lotus Flowers" (1972) and "Admitting the Party at Dien Bien Phu". Also on this cover is stamp showing one the traditional golf games of children in Vietnam. When it was issued on 01 June 2020, three additional stamps were included in the series. The postmark cancellation on this cover originated from Saigon, Vietnam.
The stamps were from a cover I received from a philatelic collector/seller in Vietnam, in February 2024.
Nguyen Sang (1923-1988) had the honour of designing the first set of postage stamps of independent Vietnam, issued in 1946, depicting the portrait of President Ho Chi Minh. At that time he was only 23 years old. Nguyen Sang was from My Tho - Tien Giang. He was a good art student and graduated from Gia Dinh Fine Arts School and Indochina College of Fine Arts (Hanoi) before 1945. After the August Revolution, he enthusiastically Participated in the revolution, drew propaganda paintings, and designed Vietnamese stamps and banknotes.
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