Please Show Us Your Angel Stamps!

For its 2011 Christmas stamps, Canada used close-up images of stained glass windows of the Cathedral of St. Mary in Kingston, Ontario. The "P" (permanent/domestic first class) rate stamp (Sc #2492) shows an angel.

Stamp was issued on November 1, 2011 in booklets of six and twelve stamps.

On November 16, 1987 Monaco issued this 5 franc stamp (Sc #1610) to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the premiere of French composer Hector Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem), opus 5. The piece was written for an orchestra of 250.

This 50c stamp (Sc #208) of Bolivia is from a set of eight issued in 1931 to mark the centenary of the country's independence. Each of the two larger, high values of this set shows a portrait of a revolutionary leader flanked by an angel, left and right.

Venezuelan independence leader Gen. Antonio Jose de Sucre (1795-1830) is depicted on this stamp. He was victorious in several important battles and served as Bolivia's 2nd president, and also as Peru's 4th president. His death was the result of an assassination.

Croatia
Millennium
January 1, 2000
Main design: angel with trumpet

Poland
Saint Archangel Gabriel - patron of postal workers and philatelists
October 18, 2022
The stamp features a painting of Saint Archangel Gabriel.

Is this unearthly beings Seraph or Cherub..? Christmas is in our sight and more angels are flying in town.

Vatican City
21 February 1974 / Air Mail: Angel from porch of St. Mark's, Venice / design & engrave: A. Quieti

I read an article (in Japanese) says Seraph has blue wings and Cherub has red wings - how about in this case of monochrome illustration? There are 7 beautiful angels on the hem of the cloak.

Colombia
1954 / 300 years of the residence hall of Our Lady of the Rosary Bogota

Hi Tomoko,
Cherubim have 4 wings, (helps God)
Seraphim has six wings. (Praises God)

I'd say you have Cherubs.

Oh, hi Rod!



Thank you!
I added the close up image.

And 1974 Vatican City stamp shows a Seraph, in that case.

Speculation,
They look like Cherubs.

Sc#3 Assyrian Cherub

Beautiful Assyrian angel... yes, 4 wings!

This being below, has 6 wings and 3 heads, and the bird on the bottom has 6 wings! Maybe in this case, they are not angels but gods?

Liechtenstein
5 December 1994 / Four Elements, Air / design: E. Steiner, engrave: W. Seidel

Consider Tomoko,
these images are individual's interpretations.
One of my favourite Historians (Waldemar Januszczak )
in his DVD "The Dark Ages, the Age of Light""
He shows one of the very first images of "Jesus"
From memory, it was a little chubby boy with curly hair.

Modern convention has him rather differently.

Yes, I got that Rod - because of lack of my knowledge in the department of angels, I was puzzled by those winged beings - then started to read. Now I am confident to find out which little chubby boy with curly hair is an angel and which similar figure is a cupid. For example... this one below is an angel! (and it says in the SG catalogue)

Italy
29 November 1981 / Stamp Day: Caduceus, chest, envelopes and Cherub blowing posthorn / design & engrave: L. Vangelli



I will check "The Dark Ages, the Age of Light", Rod - as I am also a fan of Waldemar Januszczak. By the way, this image below is another expression of Jesus in a form of Cherub (red 6 wings), painted by Giotto and hang in the Louvre, Paris. An example of early Renaissance interpretation.

Angels with music, for festive days to come - or already started in Europe?
Merry Christmas to everyone

Uruguay
1978 / design: F. Alvarez Cozzi

Really! ? Wow.

I can watch only 1 video a month, it chews up my Broadband usage .

Here is "The Dark Ages...etc" Tomoko
Enjoy !