Wrangling Our Wreaths

Wrangling Our Wreaths

With apologies to the new Xmas thread at https://goscf.com/t/69664 ...

From the American Topical Association:

2019 Free Holiday Checklist Released
November 23, 2019

ATA's 2019 free holiday topical checklist is on Wreaths.

This checklist featuring worldwide stamps depicting wreaths, is made available by the American Topical Association. This sample is designed to introduce ATA checklists through a seasonal topic. We hope you'll enjoy this introduction to topical stamp collecting.

http://www.americantopicalassn.org/...hecklist.pdf

http://www.americantopicalassn.org/

Q/ Got wreaths?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey (a proud member of the ATA, America's Second Largest Philatelic Organization)

Hope I am not out of order here........
Laurel wreath

The first notes that the wreath dates back to ancient Greece & Rome, where members of Greco-Roman society would hand-make ring-shaped "wreaths" using fresh tree leaves, twigs, small fruits & flowers. Worn as headdresses, these wreaths represented one's occupation, rank, achievements, and status





Traditional US

Here's my only wreath so far and some mistletoe for good measure.

Brazil

1963

1v.

Centenary of the death of brazilian actor Joao Caetano (1808-1863)




The image of the stamp was made upon a work of Sébastien Sisson (1824-1869), a french artist that worked in Brazil as litographer and caricaturist in the second half of XIX siecle.

https://goscf.com/t/64643&whichpage=14#623911
https://goscf.com/t/57346

Fujeira

1972 1v

Napoleon

Note: Thread Bumped
Don

Stamp commemorates 100 years of May Day in Austria.
In the US and Canada a similar observance, known as Labour Day,
occurs on the first Monday of September.

Austria
Scott 1501



Is it a wreath or is it a garland?

French stamp commemorates the quatercenetary of the birth of the
poet Pierre de Ronsard.

France
Scott 219



Why did a poet deserve a laurel wreath?

According to someone somewhere on the internet:

Laurel's function was a prize in honor of Apollo and a marker of poetic power is the reason the laureate crown was adopted to honor poets and men of letters in the early Renaissance.

Senegal

1961

Independence 1v




* I supose the thread can go on

At Napoleon's coronation he wore a golden laurel wreath throughout the proceedings,representing victory, peace and civic virtue. For the coronation, he raised a replica of Charlemagne's crown over his own head in a symbolic gesture, but did not wear it atop the wreath. Wikipedia


FRANCE

Scott 1385

Nymph Salmacis, sculpture by Baron François Joseph Bosio (1768 – 1845), designed by Pierre Gandon, engraved by Jules Piel and issued by Monaco on July 12, 1948: