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Czechoslovakian Cinderella

 
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Posted 02/13/2011   4:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add lithograving to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
As I was going through a pile of Czechoslovakian stamps
I noticed that this one looked like a regular stamp printed
engraved & multi colour photogravure like most Czech stamps
but since it had no denomination I quickly realized it's a Cinderella.

Would anyone know what it's about?

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Posted 02/13/2011   4:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nigelc to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There's a Czech stamp for the same event, SG 1673 issued on 21 August 1967.

SG calls this the "Postal Employees Games".
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Nigel
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Posted 02/13/2011   4:35 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add lithograving to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Nigel.

So was this a label attached to a stamp as was/is the practice
on some Czech issues?
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Posted 02/13/2011   4:40 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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SG calls this the "Postal Employees Games"


One wonders what the most popular events might have been...

Three-legged mailbag race?

Hammer throw, for sure.

I wonder what the least popular events might have been?


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Posted 02/13/2011   4:43 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add nigelc to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There's no se-tenant label mentioned in SG or Michel. Maybe it's a publicity label / poster stamp issued by the organisers - particularly given the postal connection?
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Nigel
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Posted 02/13/2011   4:45 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add lithograving to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks again Nigel.
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Posted 02/13/2011   4:47 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add lithograving to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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I wonder what the least popular events might have been?



Having to deliver the mail through rain and sleet and snow.
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Posted 02/13/2011   5:08 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Londonbus1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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SG calls this the "Postal Employees Games".



Scott calls it 'The Sports and Cultural Festival of the employees of the Ministry of Communications' !

I doubt whether the label Litho showed was attached to this stamp however. It is a horizontal issue while the label above is vertical, even though the Emblem and Colonnade are shown on both.
It may be from another issue or just a festival label.....or possibly from a miniature sheet.

Londonbus1
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'The Sports and Cultural Festival of the employees of the Ministry of Communications' !


Sounds like something from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty - Four
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Posted 02/13/2011   9:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Cinderella (telegraph seals) from Czechoslovakia,
with the same emblem/icon.

This is part of my collection of
"electricity insulators" on stamps.



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