Hands On Stamps

This stamp was issued by the Republic of Korea (South Korea):







Issued 30 November 1977, Nature Conservation.

From the Republic of Korea (South Korea):





Issued 21 August 2003, marking the start of the Summer Inter-University Games.
Designed Mo, Ji-won from an original painting "Dream for Unity" by Park, Geun-yong.

Issued by Great Britain as part of the Millennium series, this shows an X-ray image of
a hand holding a computer mouse:





Issued 5 September 2000.

Issued by Great Britain, as part of a set commemorating various anniversaries, on 2 April 1969, this stamp marks 50 years of the International Labour Organisation (ILO):





An interesting design of stamp, as the position of the hand together with the orientation of the spanner suggests that the operator is tightening
a fitting by moving the spanner downwards away from the body, which was always frowned upon.

Two objections - human muscles are stronger in compression than in extension, and if the spanner slips, the operator will be unbalanced. (My engineering training!)

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a hand holding a bloody broken chain, and (inset) a portrait of Nelson Mandela, designed by Aslam, printed by lithography (Edila), and issued by Senegal on July 31, 1987 as one of a set of three stamps publicizing solidarity against South African apartheid, Scott No. 722.

- nethryk

The scout handshake is a left-handed one.

Hands are featured on 2 of 5 designs of Singapore's first 1997 "Friends" greetings booklet of 10 stamps.

Great Britain
28 April 1976
Social Reformers

Hewing Coal (reformer - Thomas Hepburn)



Machinery (Robert Owen)



Chimney Cleaning (Lord Shaftesbury)



Hands Clutching Prison Bars (Elizabeth Fry)

Great Britain
23 June 1998
50th Anniv of National Health Service

This 1952 small format commemorative from the U.S.A. features an awkwardly positioned pair of hands and torch above a globe.

Albin Lambotte (1866-1955) of Belgium was a pioneer in the surgical treatment of fractures, usually accompanied by osteosynthesis; he designed and constructed the equipment he needed in his own workshop. He was also a skilled musician and artist and beloved teacher. One stamp with an X-ray of the left hand, in a sheet of 5 honoring medical innovations of Belgium.

The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the UN and called for a day to strengthen the "ideals of peace and to alleviating the tensions and causes of conflict, both within and among nations and peoples." A second resolution in 2001 fixed the date of Sept. 21 for the International Day of Peace and also called for it to be observed "as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, an invitation to all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities." On these stamps Peace is written in Russian and Spanish.

Guatemalan se-tenant stamps condemning human trafficking, 2015.

One in a set of three stamps issued by Afghanistan in 2006 calling for a stop to violence against women. It looks like the woman is hiding in a darkened room, daring to expose only a few fingers.

A great design for the day!