Children On Stamps

I don't think I remember seeing this topic done before. Children on stamps are one of my favorite topicals. I have been trying to assemble a collection focusing on issues affecting children. My job invovles working with children, so my selection seemed only natural. I am still trying to figure out how I want to organize it. For now, I am in the collecting stage. Below are 4 recent US stamps concerning family violence, missing children, child health and testing for Sickle Cell Disease.

Here are some of my International Year of the Child Stamps

km41566 - Great idea for a thread! Here is my first contribution:

Children of the unemployed, semi-postal stamp designed by French artist and sculptor Emile Grégoire (1871-?), engraved by Jules Piel, and issued by France on May 28, 1936, Scott No. B46, Y&T No. 312.

- nethryk

Hi to all
I would say that possibly the Nation that has produced more stamps with Children on them would be New Zealand.
This would have started in 1929 with their first health stamps and the famous smiling boy.
Here are two covers I have with New Zealand Children on Stamps.
Regards
Horamakhet

This stamp looks like 2 children...but it is not
(It is the same child used twice)

The child looks like he/she is left handed, ...but No.

To make have the sitting image fit the scene, the negative was reversed, giving the appearance the child was left handed.
(nothing wrong with lefthandedness :)

Produced by Harrison & Sons.

Nice stamps and covers friends!

Past April 22, 2003 I received this nice cover with theme childrens and Prehispanic from Belgium.



Regards!
Rodolfo

Nice stamps and covers everyone! Keep them coming! I am out of town right now but I will show more stamps and covers from my collection when I return home.

A few US kiddies




...and who could forget

Even Kings were children once

Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VII)



This is listed in Unitrade as Edward VII as a child, but I believe it is actually Edward VIII,
citing Newfoundland Postage Stamps,
1857–1949 : A Brief Historical and Iconographic Study
by Thomas F. Nemec

Lovely stamps and scans, James

Would agree, looks like Ed8

Little girl eating a pie, designed by Czech artist Anna Podzemna-Suchardova (1909-1991), engraved by Jirí Antonín Svengsibir, and issued by Czechoslovakia on May 5, 1960 as one of five stamps commemorating the 15th anniversary of the liberation, Scott No. 980, SG No. 1153.

- nethryk

Another young king, Alphonso XIII, on Cuban and Philippino stamps.

More kids on US stamps.

Here are images of the two stamps in a set issued by Poland on November 14, 1959 to publicize the "1,000 Schools" campaign for the 1,000th anniversary of Poland. Philatelic note: Scott says that both of these stamps are printed by combined lithogravure and engraved, but I believe the SG descriptions are more accurate, and so I would choose to go with them instead.

- nethryk

Schoolgirl, designed by Polish poster designer Wiktor Górka (1922-2004), combined engraved by Barbara Kowalska (née Szymanska) and photogravure, Scott No. 878, SG No. 1124.


Three children going to [Note: Scott says "leaving"] school, designed by Polish poster designer Hubert Hilscher (1924-1999), combined engraved, typography and photogravure, Scott No. 879, SG No. 1125.

Jamesw: is that Nfld Sc#44 or Nfld Sc#45?

Boy and girl running in the countryside, semi-postal stamp designed and engraved by Achille Ouvré, and issued by France on July 9, 1945 to benefit the "fresh air" fund, Scott No. B194, Y&T No. 740.

- nethryk