Coat Of Arms

You reminded me of this other version of Andorra.

Coat of arms of the town of Wiener Neustadt, designed by Adalbert Pilch, combined engraved by Alfred Fischer and photogravure, and issued by Austria on May 27, 1966 to publicize an art exhibition centered around the time and person of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III ("The Peaceful", 1415-93), Scott No. 761.

- nethryk

The Coat of arms of the State of Cochin (south India), a mail sent from one king to a prince, no stamp is used in this cover as the king was excepted from using postal stamps..

Coat of arms : British South Africa Company.. here I am displaying an item which comes under philately and numismatics.. a rare combination.. (ofcourse there is an elephant in coat of arms)
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Marshall Hole Currency Cards (Bulawayo)- August to October 1900
One of the consequences of the Boer War and the siege of Mafeking in 1899 was the resulting scarcity of circulating money further north at Bulawayo (meaning "the place of slaughter") in Matabeleland (now Zimbabwe) where Cecil Rhodes' British South Africa Company was in exploration for gold. Earlier Cecil Rhodes had negotiated concessions with the King of the Matabele, Lobengula who was later, as a result of disagreement over these concessions, driven out of his own land by Rhodes in 1893 - dying soon after of small pox.
The Civil Commissioner of the small evolving town of Bulawayo and highly placed official in the British South Africa Company (1891 - 1928), Hugh Marshall Hole, followed Baden-Powell's lead and issued his own interim "stamp money" affectionately known as "card currency" . On one side of the card a stamp was affixed with its value being the amount that could be redeemed once the currency shortage was aleviated - but not after the 1st October 1900. The other side of the card notes how they might be redeemed and is counter signed by "H Marshall Hole" signature (facsimile). The siege of Mafeking (see above) and the cutting of the rail line nearby by the boers had effectively cut off Bulawayo and the British South Africa Company, the region's de facto government from Cecil Rhodes and the Cape - their financial lifeline.

our_elephant - Outstanding post on the British South Africa Company - Marshall Hole Currency Cards! Thanks for sharing. - nethryk

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Central African Republic & Central African Empire Official stamps.

1)Central African Republic : 1971 , SGO238
Central African Republic was renamed as Central african Empire on 4 December 1976, but country reverted to Central african Republic on 1979.
2)Central African Empire : 1977, SGO498 (The Central African Republic stamp over printed )
3)Central African Empire : 1978, SGO566 (Same design used but minor changes can be noticed, see the elephant)

Nethryk: thanks for the image of the coat of arms for Wiener Neustadt. It has a namesake in the village of Neustadt, Ontario, Canada, that I have driven through many times, in fact, a sibling was town clerk there so will have to pass that image along. The residents of the village and surrounding area were mostly of German extraction. One of the village's claim to fame was a wonderful old brewery.

cynical - You're very welcome. Your story reminded me of the tale I was once told by some Canadian acquaintances about how Berlin, Ontario's German heritage was abandoned and the city came to be renamed Kitchener in 1916 because of Anglophone reaction against all things German during the First World War.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting the coat of arms of Olinda, a historic city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco and one of the best-preserved colonial cities in Brazil, designed by L. Campos, engraved by W. B. de Frietas, and issued by Brazil on January 24, 1938 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Olinda's founding, Scott No. 453, SG No. 612.

- nethryk

Coat of Arms : state of Travancore Cochin
The state was created on 1 July 1949 by the merger of two former Princely States, the kingdoms of Travancore and Cochin . but it existed only for a short while.
The stamps of Travancore Cochin ceased to be valid for prepayment of postage with effect from July 1, 1951. These could be exchanged for Indian stamps of equal value up to September 30, 1951.
Since the state existed only for a short time, the unused stamps/covers and covers overprinted "on India postal service" are available freely in market, but used stamps and covers are not that common.

Got these interesting coats of arms recently from Dianne's spring clean out. You've got it all going on here. Lions, castles, dragons. But I especially like the guy with the chicken body and the cool hat.

Here's one version of the origin of that coat-of-arms (from the town's official website):

The legend of town heraldry
In ancient time, Ceská Trebová was town of potters, weavers and peasants. Reeve and twelve aldermen ruled the town. They were helped by a clerk, who also took care of the town seal. He pledged his life for its safety. So no wonder, he guarded it really very carefully. But one day, the seal got lost regardless all his care and efforts. The clerk and his wife searched for it everywhere, but uselessly. It seemed that the seal vanished.

The clerk was arrested and put in hold. He waited there for the carpenters to build the gallows tree. In the meantime, his wife desperately searched for the seal high and low. When she already ceased to hope for its finding, she looked out of the window to the yard: a cock was standing in the dung-yard having something under his feet. She ran out and she was astonished: the cock found the seal in the dung-yard. She hurried to the place of execution and rescued her husband's life in the very last moment.

A cock with human head is in the town heraldry so as to commemorate this event.

jamesw - Creative and interesting coats of arms on your Czechoslovakia stamps. Thanks for posting.

22crows - A most amusing story; thanks for posting it, too.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting the coat of arms of the Austrian state of Tyrol, designed by Austrian artist Robert Fuchs (1896-1981), engraved by Georg Wimmer, and issued by Austria on June 13, 1959 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the fight for Tyrolese liberation against Bavarian authority, Scott No. 645, SG No. 608. The red eagle in Tyrol's coat of arms may derive from the Brandenburg eagle, although the Tyrolean eagle had already appeared as early as the 13th century.

- nethryk

Czechslovakia 1991, at the end of the country...



Czech Republic, 1992







Brno a Czech city



Slovakia 1992

Here is an image of another stamp depicting the national coat of arms of Andorra (French version), engraved by Achille Ouvré, and issued by Andorra (French administration) in March, 1927, Scott No. 65, plus an image of the current Andorra coat of arms. Historical note: In 1969, the crown was removed from the coat of arms, and the bishop's crosier in the lower left quarter was moved up into the upper left quarter with the mitre, and replaced by four pales from the coat of arms of Catalonia. Also, note that the two cows in the lower right quarter are facing in the opposite direction from the cows depicted in the Spanish version posted by jamesw above.

- nethryk

Well, the facing of the cows on Andorra's armas is something aleatory, which doesn't depend on the P.O. isuing the stamp. as You can seen in these stamps (the second, in fact, a cinderella) issued by the Spanish and French PO around 1982.







The four quarters of Androrra's arms depict: the ones of the Bishop of la Seu d'Urgell (Catalonia), arms of Foix (three red pales on a gloden field), arms of Catalonia (four red pales on a golden field) and arms of Bearn (two red/brown cows on a golden field).
Bearn and Foix are on the Nortern side of the Pyrenees, while Catalonia is on the South. Andorra lies in between; 2.5 hours driving from Barcelona, a popular holiday resort for us.