Stamps That Make You Go... Huh???

ikeyPikey - Excellent suggestions!

Jet, woman's head and emblem, designed by Tunisian artist Hatem El Mekki (1918-2003), printed by lithography, and issued by Tunisia on December 21, 1983 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the "Tunisification" (nationalization) of civil aviation and the weather service, Scott No. 841.

- nethryk

Man in Space? Designed by T. Pla, printed by lithography, and issued by Uruguay on June 3, 1982 to publicize UNISPACE '82, the United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, held in Vienna, Austria, Scott No. 1124.

- nethryk

I'm thinking that's the man in the moon ;)

In 1989, Yugoslavia issued ...



After a lot of looking, I put the bird & stampy-thing together as 'airmail' ... maybe.

The swoopy lines suggest '60' ... 1989 - 60 = 1929 ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingd...f_Yugoslavia ... The official name of the state was changed to "Kingdom of Yugoslavia" by King Alexander I on 3 October 1929.

Ah!

Yugoslavia
Series: Postal service
Catalog codes:
Yvert et Tellier YU 2209A
Michel YU 2327A
Issued on: 1989-01-20
Perforation: comb 13¼
Printing: Offset lithography
Size: 24 x 26 mm
Face value: 5,000 din. - Yugoslav dinar
Designer/Engraver: D.CUDOV
Printer: ZIN ... http://www.zin.rs/en/kompanija/ ... The Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes and Coins, of the National Bank of Serbia

cds Bled 19890915 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bled

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

My take is a posthorn, globe, bird and stamp... I won't get into olive branch vs. wheat stalk. Perhaps international airmail?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_horn ... thank you, billsey!

Wheat stalk? fuggedaboudit

Well, Yugoslavia wasn't an Eastern Bloc country, but they were definitely allies of the Soviets. The dove + olive branch on the "stampy thing" is another of the commie icons which they presented ad infinitum. It was either victory over the Nazis, or peace...endlessly for 45 years...until their system imploded.

I have grown accustomed to the French thinking that they are better than everyone else, but this pair set me back.

France . Coat of Arms
Catalog codes:
Michel FR 849
Yvert et Tellier FR 837
AFA number FR 861
Issued on: 1949-05-11
Perforation: comb 14 x 13½
Printing: Typography
Size: 17 x 21 mm
Colors: Multicolor
Face value: 2 #8355; - French franc
Print run: 64,000,000
R. Louis
H. Cortot



Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Yet another bird hidden in a stamp design?

Fodder for a new thread: Stamps That Should Not Be Affixed Upside Down

Remember those goofy 1950s sci-fi movies with giant winged predators that swoop down and gobble-up unsuspecting aircraft?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Who is that woman, and why is she smacking that aircraft with a salmon?



Okay, on second glance, I can see that she is stabbing the aircraft with a feather.

Why? Well, it was the year after the Berlin Airlift ...

https://history.state.gov/milestone...rlin-airlift ... US State Dept

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistl...rlift/large/ ... The Truman Library ... "126 documents totaling 444 pages covering the years 1948 through 1952"

http://www.spiritoffreedom.org/airlift.html ... the deep dive

As to the cover, I just love old commie propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_W...and_Students ... Commie Youth Propaganda event

Q/ The cover seems to predate the FDoI of the stamp (as per two online sites); any thoughts?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

A salmon?




A feather?




Like what has this got to do with the Airlift?

ikeyPikey, you have one hell of an imagination.

That thing on the hill overlooking Budapest is the Liberty Statue
erected in 1947 to thank the Soviets for liberating Hungary
from the Nazis.

She is holding a palm leaf which apparently was a symbol
of Victory in ancient Greek and Roman times.

I happen to see the statue "in person" last fall on a short
visit to Budapest but didn't get that close to her as you can see
in the pic.
Not that I wanted to, lots of other fascinating stuff to see.



As far as the date of issue is concerned, it was October 29, 1950 according to my old Michel.

The postmark I think reads 50 XI - 9. 10.
So might be November 9, 1950 10 am


Forgot to add the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber...8Budapest%29

Well done, litho!

To be fair to me, the 'salmon' was a first impression. My fave nature/wildlife videos involve salmon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NcJ_63z-mA ... Bears standing in an icey river grabbing jumping salmon on the fly.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?...884459&hl=en ... Eagles grab salmon on the fly at the Apgar Bridge over Lower McDonald Creek

As to the feather, well, that lady waving something over her head kinda resembles a stripper waving a feather over her head ...

I will accept 'palm frond', but not without noting that I lived three years in a community where coconut palms were the primary tall vegetation, and I lived many more years in a country thick with date palms, and I have - from year to year - grabbed a palm frond and waved it around a bit.

And that looks a whole lot more like a feather than a palm frond.

However, if the theme is peace, what she's waving looks more like an olive branch than a palm frond. If the theme is victory, a palm frond would make sense, but still wouldn't look like that.

The 'XI = November' makes perfect sense. Good on you, lad.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

To my eyes, she is stabbing the plane with a rare "beaked" porcupine