It used to be the only country boasting tolerance between Catholics and Protestants. Although the long-planned celebrations were banned, the unveiling of the monument to Master Jan Hus on the day of the 500th anniversary of his burning became a clear demonstration of the specific national aspirations.Ī group of Czech exiles fleeing the country after the Battle of White Mountain, symbolising the despair over the loss of their homeland, was added to the figures of Jan Hus and God’s warriors.Īt that time, the development of the Czech lands, which were then at Europe’s cultural peak, was actually strangled. The first stamp depicts the ceremony of unveiling of the monument to Master Jan Hus marking the five-hundredth anniversary of his burning.
The Czech Post website describes it thus:. King George V and Winston Churchill can be found in the bottom right segment. This is the second miniature sheet to commemorate the centenary of WW1 issued on 14th October 2015.
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Line drawing of the stamp: Miloš OndráčekĬZECH REPUBLIC 2015 World War One two 27 CZK stamps plus three coupons in a second miniature sheet Today, he is considered one of the 20th-century classics and a renowned innovator of the prose narrative form. Kafka became famous posthumously, mostly after World War II. During his lifetime the key part of his work was almost unknown and only a few short stories were published. As a symbol of relentless metamorphosis, not always for the better, the beetle is set in austere, even unsympathetic modules.įranz Kafka - a Prague-born, German-language writer of Jewish origin - is best known for his novels The Trial, The Man Who Disappeared (also known as America), The Castle, and a short story The Metamorphosis. The stamp portrays a realistic-looking beetle. The composition of the stamp, handstamp and FDC is based on an austere geometric module which is also reflected in the booklet. The stamp’s motto is LAWLESSNESS - TIMELESSNESS - METAMORPHOSIS. It was issued in 2013 to commemorate Franz Kafka.Ĭzech Republic stamp Franz Kafka 2013 European postage rate E self-adhesive I find this stamp haunting in its design. Every time one of the sent postcards is registered, you can request another address so that the number of postcards allowed to travel at any single time goes up. Initially you can have up to 5 postcards travelling at any single time. At this point, you are eligible to receive a postcard from a different postcrosser.
The addressee receives the postcard and registers it using the postcard ID. The postcard ID uniquely identifies that postcard in the system. You will receive an email with the postcrosser’s address and a postcard ID (e.g.: CZ-010101). The first step is to request the address of another postcrosser to whom you must send a postcard.
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The fact that you can get postcards from different parts of the world (which you may not even have heard of) can turn your letter box into a box full of surprises - and who would not like that? Why? Because like the authors of this project, people love getting real mail. The main principle is that if you send a postcard, you’ll get at least one in return from a random postcrosser anywhere in the world. The project aims to help people receive postcards from all over the world for free.
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This is the seventh stamp in the series dedicated by stamp designers to this rediscovered phenomenon. The stamp depicts so-called Postcrossing, or a project of global exchange of postcards. Czech Republic self-adhesive stamp 2015 Postcrossing, E (European rate)
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