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Ziggy, How could I have forgot Vatican ?...theres a gold mine of saints there !! |
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APS 070059 Life Member International Society of Guatemala Collectors I.S.G.C. #853 |
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600th anniversary of the birth of St. Catherine
of Siena, patroness of Italy. Issued on 1st March 1948 |
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Where's Londonbus1? He has to have hundreds of good Israel issues to share with us. |
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Where's Londonbus1? He has to have hundreds of good Israel issues to share with us.
I have,I have. I will scan some tomorrow and post,post,post.
But it's late now and soon I will be in slumber.......
Londonbus1........Amen. |
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Oh yeh Vatican City I have some of those   |
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Don't grumble that the roses have thorns, be thankful that the thorns have roses |
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JERUSALEM OF GOLD
 This Miniature sheet was issued on May 14th of this year, the first day of the WSC Israel2008 exhibition. There is an Imperforate sheet also which is quite rare.
The sheet was issued as part of the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Jerusalem. The citizens of Israel were reminded of the story on Independence day, 1967 by the song of the same name by Naomi Shemer.
So what is the story of JERUSALEM OF GOLD that is depicted on this Miniature Sheet ??
It appears in a story in the Talmud.
Rabbi Akiva was uneducated and worked as a shepherd for a rich man in Jerusalem. The rich man had a daughter, Rachel, who fell in love and married the poor Rabbi. Her father was outraged and dispossessed her.
The poor couple lived in a hayloft and each morning, the Rabbi would clean Rachel's hair of the hay. He promised to buy her a piece of precious Jewllery to wear in her hair.
Rachel encouraged her husband to study the Torah and paid for the studies by selling her hair. He studied hard and eventually became a great Torah scholar with over 12,000 followers. Rachel's father acknowledged his achievement and they returned to the family. He bestowed upon the couple all his wealth.
The rabbi kept his promise and bought his wife a circlet of Gold for her hair.The design resembled the Jerusalem City walls and so became known as the 'JERUSALEM OF GOLD'.
Similar items of jewellery were popular and brides wore copies until the Roman Occupation when they were banned for being symbols of Jewish Nationalism.
And so the phrase 'Jerusalem of Gold' was forgotten until Naomi Shemer's song in 1967.
And now it will live on forever and not forgotten, in Philately at least, with this beautiful sheet, parts of which are 22 carat Gold, including the word Jerusalem [written in Hebrew] on the Circlet.
I would like to thank Britain's Gibbons Stamp monthly and Israel Post for much of the information in this Text.
Londonbus1.......Not at all religious ! |
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That's beatiful Londonbus Dianne |
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That's one of the more beautiful sheets I've ever seen. Thanks for posting it London! |
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