Hands On Stamps

Hand protecting a boy and Rotary emblem, an airmail stamp engraved and printed by Austrian State Printing Works, Vienna, and issued by Costa Rica on February 7, 1956 as one of a set of six stamps commemorating the 50th anniversary (in 1955) of Rotary International.

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Manual stop signal, printed by lithography, and issued by Argentina on July 22, 1948 to publicize "Traffic Safety Day," Scott No. 578.

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COLOMBIA 2005

50 years Latin Union

Extracting snake venom by hand, a semi-postal (charity) stamp printed by lithography, and issued by Thailand in April, 1980 to benefit the Thai Red Cross, Scott No. B55. Bonus: Reptile.

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Export promotion: Hand with pointing finger and emblem of Foreign Trade Institute, designed by A. Rojas, printed by photogravure, and issued by Mexico on January 11, 1974, Scott No. 1057.

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Hi Nethryk, That sure is an interesting perspective: I tried to put my pinky in the same position as in the picture but it didn't work very well on either hand. Can you do it? Maybe this is one of those anatomical oddities such as in FDR's hand or the extra hand in the post of 11/4/14. The Canadian hand way back on post 9/10/14 is obviously not a drawing. The hand of the Danish actor and singer Osvald Helmuth (1894-1966) is almost in the same position. By the way, whatever happened to Uncle Sam, he seems to have gotten older.

Republic of China (Taiwan)
Buddha's Hand: Love for All (1996)
South Korea
Father's Hand: Protect Children's Human Rights (2007)

United States
The Bill of Rights
July 1, 1966
This 5c stamp commemorates the 175th anniversary of the ratification of the United States Bill of Rights, the collective name of the first ten amendments to the United State Constitution. They provide basic legal protection for individual rights.
The stamp features a design of two hands – "freedom" checking "tyranny" with the proclamation "The rights of the people shall not be violated" in between.

Lots of rugby being played over there in England these days!

The raised index finger (especially one longer than usual) has quite a different meaning than the pointing one; here teacher Lämpel telling his pupils about life-long learning. Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter. He published comic illustrated cautionary tales from 1859, achieving his most notable works in the 1870s. Busch's illustrations used wood engraving, and later, zincography. Self portrait on earlier stamp.

Kris Rascher - Regarding the Mexico stamp with the pointing hand which I posted above, I can only think that the pinkie is hidden in shadow, or that this individual was the victim of a bizarre ritual of some sort.

Here is an image of a stamp depicting hands holding a house and people with smiling faces, designed by Italian-born Brazilian illustrator Gian Calvi (1938- ), printed by lithography, and issued by Brazil on November 28, 1972 to publicize the national housing program to promote home ownership, Scott No. 1264.

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Here is an image of a se-tenant pair of stamps with a mother signing "I Love You" to her child, and a signing hand, designed by American artist Chris Calle (1961- ), printed by photogravure, and issued by the USA on September 20, 1993 to publicize recognizing deafness and American Sign Language, Scott No. 2784a.

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Hand holding olive branch, printed by photogravure, and issued by Spain on April 1, 1964 as one of a set of 14 stamps commemorating 25 years of peace (withing Spain), Scott No. 1225.

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Praying hands, designed by Uruguayan artist Ángel Medina Medina (1914-1980), printed by lithography, and issued by Uruguay on December 26, 1973 as one of a set of two stamps commemorating the survival and rescue of the victims of an airplane crash in the Andes Mountains, Scott No. 871.

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Vatican City 2015 70th Anniversary of the end of World War II and the Found of the United Nations.