Friday, December 6, 2024

La Poste France "Le 50s"

LA POSTE FRANCE issued a series of stamps in 2014 entitled “The '50s”. This post-war period in France was tremendously optimistic. It was a time of joyfulness and carefreeness. Economic prosperity was changing the way of life for the French. The country was becoming more modern. Six themes were chosen to illustrate this period in postage stamps, namely “the automobile”, “the advertisement”, “the holidays”, “the cinema”.

TECHNICAL DETAILS
The series was created by Stéphane Humbert-Basset

“The automobile” stamp: TM Dyna Panhard –

“The advertisement” stamp: Raymond Savignac, Poster

“For your work - electricity” © ADAGP, Paris 2014 and © Bibliothèque Forney/Roger-Viollet

“The cinema” stamp: FANFAN LA TULIPE dir. Ch. JACQUE, 1951 © FILMSONOR / ARIANE / RIZZOLI / 1951 - “Music”, “Fashion” and “Leisure”

Printing: Rotogravure

Colors: four-color process

Stamp format: horizontal 40 x 26 and vertical 26 x 40

Block format: vertical 110 x 160

Presentation: block of 6 stamps

Face value: €0.66 x 6 or €3.96

No comments:

Post a Comment