Maximaphily (Maximum Cards)

Sir Joshua Reynolds.
(Not my item)



Rock Climbing.

Anybody else interested in maximaphily?

I like the solution chosen by Australia Post to make the postmark visible: a disk of matte (or just white-ish?) surface, incorporated on the postcard image design.

You nailed it

You are very forgiving, I am not taken by them myself.
It leaves a taste of "Philatelic contrivance" to me
in that the card was specifically designed for Maxicard collectors.
Maybe that's just the cynic in me?

As far as I know, kneeling and putting hands together in prayer is a Christian ritual, not a Jewish one. Poor show, Sir Joshua. At least the card is a proper creation by a collector or a dealer, rather than those post office creations with sea-life.

That was quite an eye opener!
had me Googling the differences, and was quite a surprise.
Samuel was venerated by both, so I guess he (Reynolds) was interpreting
what he had been used to, brought up with.

Hello.
My interest in maximophilia is limited to stamps issued from my city.
I have some cards that I would exchange for stamps.
Regards.

You, too, can create some maxicards about things that interest you.

Perhaps. this is my favourite Maximum card is:



It shows the painting "Ciència I Caritat" (Science and Charity) an early (1897) work by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) who spent his youth in Barcelona, my home-town.
The work, hangs on that city's Picasso Museum.

The stamp, issued on October 1978, is on a commercial postcard, cancelled with an special postmark, used on a temporary PO, set on Barcelona's Picasso Museum, on the day of issue.
The doctor, is a portrait of Picasso's father.

I recall, seeing this painting on my first visit to the museum, with my parents & brothers, a short time after the Museum was opened on the 60s.
It was an important event in our city.

Excellent. Surprised that the Generalissimo permitted a Picasso museum!

Well, actually, during Franco's time (from 1968 up to 1976), there wasn't such a thing as a "Picasso Museum". The name was "Palau Berenguer d'Aguilar Museum" (a XV century Gothic palace, that "happened to be full of Picasso's paintings"). It became "Museu Picasso", sometime after Francos's death (20/11/1975).
The name was forbidden, but the painter's offer (having grown in Barcelona, he loved our city for all his life) was a sweet too good to pass.
The major of Barcelona, who was a Franco's friend, knew "how to sell the question" and the regime's people might be fascist, but not too stupid. As Spain was getting a lot of money from tourism, to refuse such a great cultural asset would have been a madness.
So, Picasso, succedeed on having a museum of his work on his beloved Barcelona; altough, somewhat "under the carpet". The only one on the artist life and by his express will
Off course, Barcelona's citizens knew of this and we flocked to see the Museum. My parents (who loved art, but not Franco) took my brothers and ne to the Museum, shortly after it was opened. We all loved it at first glance and came back many times. Now, it's too full of tourists.
A Barcelona history...