Small Guns On Stamps: Pistols, Rifles, Etc

Factory militiaman holding a rifle, designed by Czech socialist realist artist Jan Cumpelík (1895-1965), engraved by Bohdan Roule (1921-1960), and issued by Czechoslovakia on May 17, 1951 as one of a set of five stamps commemorating the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, Scott No. 456. Also note the ghostly medieval (Hussite?) warrior in the background of this stamp's design.

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Antique pistols from the National Arms Museum, printed by lithography, and issued by Argentina on June 27, 1981 as one of a set of two stamps commemorating the centenary of the Military Club, Scott No. 1310.

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Biathlon competitors, designed by Otto Stefferl (1931- ), combined engraved by Alfred Fischer (1926- ) and photogravure, and issued by Austria on February 28, 1978 to publicize the Biathlon World Championships, held in Hochfilzen, Tyrol, Scott No. 1074.

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Jewish resistance insurgents armed with rifles, designed by J. Tom, printed by photogravure, and issued by Poland on April 19, 1948 to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazi German Occupation, Scott No. 418.

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Algeria 2016 Pistol from the Ottomann era.

Here are images of the four stamps in a set depicting antique firearms and other weapons, designed by Dušan Lucic (1937- ), printed by photogravure, and issued by Yugoslavia on March 26, 1979, Scott Nos. 1419-22.

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Sabre, mace, and Koran pouch, 15th-19th centuries.


Pistol and ramrod, Montenegro. 18th-19th centuries.


Short carbine and powder horn, Slovenia and Croatia, 18th-19th centuries.


Oriental rifle and cartridge pouch, 17th-19th centuries.

Colonel Zacharia Tiffin inserting bayonet onto musket.

Issued by:
Antigua and Barbuda
07-01-1973

Catalog codes:
Scott 307
Michel AG 296
Yvert et Tellier AG 298

Perforation:
comb 14

Printing:
Offset lithography

Face value:
½ ¢ - East Caribbean cent

Watermark:
St. Edward´s Crown and CA, multiple

The Azad Hind Stamps are a set of Cinderella stamps designed by German artist Werner von Axster-Heudtlass (1898-1949), and printed by photogravure in 1943 in Nazi Germany for Subhas Chandra Bose's Azad Hind (Indian National Army). Here is an image of a stamp from the set depicting a Sikh soldier firing a German MG 34 machine gun, plus an image of the photograph which was the model for this stamp's design, and a photo of a Maschinengewehr 34 recoil-operated air-cooled machine gun.

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Russia 2016 Fedorov Avtomat M1916

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a Jewish fighter holding a rifle and a Model 24 Stielhandgranate (stick grenade, nicknamed the "potato masher"), designed by Sewrin Jasinski, combined engraved by Jerzy Miller (1921-1985) and photogravure, and issued by Poland on April 19, 1963 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Scott No. 1132, plus a YouTube link to a short documentary about the uprising.

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Brazil

1985, 2v

150 years of the Cabanagem inssurection

A lot of stamps You can find with this topic! Old Weapons, Weapons of Victory, Soldiers, Uniforms (mostly will be pictured with some kind of rifle in hands of soldier, and so on.

So, when I try to select, one or two, from many, I come to the one, "like" issue, from Bosnia and Herzegovina - Republika Srpska.

Even that it is small dimension stamp, and designed in very "simple" way, I like it, just because that, it is simple and nice.

Issued in Jan. 10, 2013, under name of "Classic Weapon", (but better will be "WWII Machine gun"), three value in set, picture of MP40, PPSh 41 and Sten MK II.

Scott catalog have it under number 462-464, with very affordable catalog price tag of just 1.05 US$, and in Michel catalog it is under number 584-586 with same low catalog price of 0.90 euro per set in mnh condition.

The quantity printed and low face value, is main reason why full set have low catalog value (0.10 and 0.20 face value are printed in 600.000 quantity and 0.35 face value in 100.000).
People will say, that no problem to buy because quantity printed, probably correct, but try to have it in really traveled, used condition, this will be hard task!

...just noticed that this PPSh 41 is very popular on postage stamps!

Upper Volta SC-3 1920 4c

Sudan SC#17 1905 1m