Serbia's "Death Mask" Stamps, A Tale Around The Campfire

And if you still can't see him on the stamp, here he is.
Who was the comic book character who always used to refer to people in rimless pince-nezs as 'man with window in head'?

He seems awfully young. <shudder>

Not just in modern times. In middle ages Stefan Uros III Decanski, king of Serbia, was blinded by his father and later killed by order of his son. (Couldn't find stamp with his image but you can see on wiki page )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephe...ki_of_Serbia




Serbia gain full independence from Ottoman empire in 1878. In 1804 is the beginning of first Serbian uprising against Ottoman rule and beginning of Serbian revolution.

Mihailo Obrenovic was assassinated in 1868. Here are two of mine stamps I posted with his image couple years earlier.

https://goscf.com/t/23050

mvojinovic- thanks for the improved information, and the continuation of the theme that Serbia is difficult and "unhealthy" to rule.

I'm not as good a storyteller as Jkjblue but I've come across a little story as well; so if you are sitting comfortably...

In the nineteenth century there was a small town, in fact little more than a village, in Serbia called Kozetin.Unfortunately in Serbo-Croat the name means Goat! It had been called that since at least the 12th century, but after 700 years the joke was wearing a bit thin. So in 1882 the inhabitants petioned King Milan to have the place renamed Aleksandrovac. He agreed, and on 19th June the name was changed.

All this can be found on the town's website at www.aleksandrovac.co.rs What they do not say was why they chose that name, but I think we can guess. They wanted to flatter the royal family by naming it after the heir to the throne, the six year old Alexander, whose story we have all read at the start of this thread.

Now for the spooky bit. I was today looking through my Serbian postmarks and I found this - a cancel from Aleksandrovac on a stamp of (who else?) Aleksander Obrenovic after he became king:

Bramba1 - You are effective enough, felt the hair on the back of my head raising.

Thanks for the ( true) story.

Nice Bamra1 and good find on that stamp. I have a friend from Aleksandrovac

I have king Aleksandar stamp with cancel of my home town
Will post picture as soon as I could

Nice historical thread guys!

Here is another pic with king Aleksandar in uniform:

Look what I found. Postcards from that time period:
http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=896609

First one I Aleksandar and his wife Draga and below his parents.

He looks like a young Kris Kringle (Santa Claus)

Here is Aleksandar stamp with my hometown cancel that I promise to post here: