Barbed Wire

Here are images of the two similar stamps in a set depicting a wild rose growing out of barbed wire, designed by Finnish artist Eeva Oivo, engraved and printed by Setelipaino Sedeltryckeriet (Bank of Finland Security Printing House), and issued by the United Nations on November 21, 1975 to commemorate UN Peace-keeping Operations, Scott Nos. 265 & 266.

- nethryk

Arab mother and son, barbed wire fence, and a map of Palestine, printed by photogravure, and issued by Egypt (UAR) on May 15, 1961 as a Palestine Occupation stamp for Palestine Day, Scott No. N79.

- nethryk

AUSTRALIA 1991

In memory of those who served.
50th Anniversary Siege of Tobruk (WWII)

This has got to be one of the most interesting topicals I've seen in a long while. I'm sorry I missed this thread when it first came out. I would never have thought there were so many stamps with barbed wire on them.

Well done, all!

This is most likely the photograph used for the design of the stamp posted by Jorges yesterday. On the web it is labeled as "British soldiers", but British and Australians fought side by side in that long siege of Tobruk. Unfortunately I was not able to find the name of the photographer. (I agree with you khj, the subject is now, 100 years after the 1st WW and 70 years after the 2nd WW and 25 years after the fall of the wall, particularly interesting. Look into the web for modern fences at borders, for example between India and Pakistan. In some countries, barbed wire is no longer accepted for fencing in animals, but there is more of it than ever before for fencing in/out human beings.)

20th Anniversary of the Resistance



........Concentration Camp

Why Italians issued this stamp?
During WW II at least 25,000 Slovenes and Croats were sent to their concentration camps.
One of hardest camp was on Island Rab - see my post: https://goscf.com/t/36074&whichpage=6#356218

Really? After 7 pages, nobody thought of this?

Dear Member James, Could you please help me understand how your posting of yesterday fits into the thread on Barbed Wire? Greetings, K.

Ms Anderson starred, a number of years ago, in a very terrible movie called "Barb Wire" She also has barbed wire tattooed on her arm but admittedly it doesn't show on the stamp.

Movie synopsis:

'A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire (Pamela Anderson Lee) moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire (Victoria Rowell) wanders into Barb's establishment, she gets roped into a top-secret government plot involving biological weapons. Soon Barb is reunited with her old flame Axel Hood (Temuera Morrison), who is now Cora's husband and a guerrilla fighter, resulting in plenty of tense action.'

Never seen it myself. But I didn't feel the need.

Thanks James, for the info. I had never heard of this movie and after seeing what it was about on the web, I don't intend to look at it. There is so much real violence in the world, why make it entertaining? Greetings, K.

ITALY - 1995



Princess Mafalda of Savoy (1902-1944) was the second daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and his wife Elena of Montenegro.
In September 1943 the Gestapo ordered her arrest and was transported to Munich for questioning, then to Berlin and finally to Buchenwald concentration camp.