Philatelic Exhibition & Stamp Show Labels & Poster Stamps

No problem, but perhaps, opening a new thread on "Soccer" in the "Topical Stamp Collecting" should be better?

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I had this poster stamp from Association of South Jersey Stamp Clubs.


But when I had come across this printers block I had to get it.

Philatelic Exhibition Card issued by the Cercle Filatèlic I Numismàtic de Barcelona for annual philatelic show at the Barcelona's Trade Fair, depicting the famous Catalan musician Pau Casals. He was the author of the UN Peace Anthem, played there and also at the White House for the President John F. Kennedy. From 1939, he lived in exile and was very badly regarded by Franco's fascist regime.



In june 1973, a few months after Pablo Picasso's death, the Cercle Filatèlic I Numismàtic de Barcelona issued a set of cards to hommage Picasso depicting his famous work "Gernika". Gernika is a market town in the Basque Country (North of Iberic Peninsula)that was heavily bombed on a 1937 market day by a raid of Hitler's Condor Legion fighting alongside Spanish upriupraised army. Many innocent people died. Thus Picasso dedicated them a gigantic painting, that was at the NYC MOMA, for a long time.




Issuing such a card with Franco alive (he died in late 1975)wasn't without a risk. But my friends of the Cercle (I actualy belong to that philatelic club)undertook that, and, actually, nothing happened...

Cursus, interesting items! Never seen them before!


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Some more colours of the Pau Casals cards









The problem of this material, is that it was originated on a reduced circle with very little external impact, as they didn' speak English (a few a little French). Most of the items I'm showing were picked at local stamp markets at quite no price, although, I know, not many were issued.

Cursus, if you ever consider selling/trading one/all of them please shoot me an e-mail ...


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Some more Picasso's sheets,







Even though he was born in Málaga (South of Spain), Picasso spent his youth in Barcelona, where he kept friends for life and considered Barcelona his city. So, it makes sense that our city was the first in the world ho have a Picasso Museum (in 1960!), and the only one to have paintings donated by the artist himself.

Thank you very much James for your offer. The items that I'm showing belong to my collection, and are not for sale; but I'll think on you if I run into duplicates or if I've the chance of picking them at a good price. Sometimes, it happens.

Just to follow the subject, three embosed cards issued for the 1977 Barcelona's Espamer, a Philatelic Show of Spain and America. Actually, it was the first philatelic show that I remember "going seriously".

Some more exhibition cards, the real stamp is on the right.











And, by now, as they said in the tv cartoons: "That's all, folks!"

Cursus, you have some truly amazing items there, I really enjoy viewing them.

Thanks.

Thank you very much litho for your words. I also like very much your contributions to the "Engraver's thread". I guess that my material look somewhat "exotic" on this community as it is very little unknown outside Catalonia. But here at home, nobody seems to care about that; just a few crazy people like me.

Three more cinderellas from what it used to be called Western Europe (althogh, Stckholm is at the east of Warsaw!). From Paris, Madrid and Stockholm.

I keep coming back to this thread because it is absolutely fascinating and it seems that every time I go through a country, more material pops up. Here are three two new items that were dormant in with my Austrian material. The 3rd item appeared earlier.

And one more to add to this thread. As I work through my worldwide collection, it seems that almost every album has an example added to the list by some country.