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Hi Primoz, Those issues of the Baltic chain are great; the hands are not a prominent part of the stamps but the experience of joining hands with so many other people for one cause must have been unforgettable. The Children of all colors joining hands for the UN International Year of the Child is a similar image of togetherness. Christmas Island, 1979.  |
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The hand as an approximate measure: In this stamp from French Polynesia, the size of the hand gives us an idea of the size of the shrimp. Aquaculture; design by V. Lemarnier.  |
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Hand, grain, fruit and cow, printed by photogravure, and issued by Japan on September 15, 1964 to publicize the completion of the drainage of the Hachirogata Lagoon, Scott No. 826. - nethryk  |
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The hand as an approximate measure: One can't really imagine a snail in the Antarctic cold, but they have been found. The hand gives you an idea of the size of such an amazing creature. French Antarctic Territory, Bioecology Program, 2012.  |
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The hand as an approximate measure: The Proconsul africanus skull found on Rusinga Island at the eastern edge of Lake Victoria by Mary Leaky in 1948. The stamp was issued at a time before the three countries surrounding Lake Victoria had independent governments (I'll leave the political and postal details to the specialists.) In the newer stamp, Rusinga Island belongs to Kenya.   |
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The hand as an approximate measure: The French Southern and Antarctic Territories (Terres australes et antarctique Francaises, TAAF) issues beautiful stamps picturing the fauna of the region. They will be celebrating 60 years of TAAF in the coming year. The fish is a Grey Rockcod and may reach more than 2 meters in length, so this one is obviously very young.  |
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The tiny bird is given seeds on an open palm - a symbol for the topic of this FDC: fight famine the world over. The bird in the cover decoration has an ear of grain as wings and the globe as a head. Isreal 1963.  |
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The different types of grains on the open hand symbolize the fight against famine. They could be rye or barley and rice. The Malagasy Republic (Madagascar), controlled by the French, became the Democratic Republic of Malagasy in 1975.  |
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This hand is also distributing nourishment, grains of cereals, to combat famine in Africa.  |
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The ear of grain shielded by these hands could be barley.  |
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In this Ghanan stamp one hand is of dark color, the other is light in color, but they look as if they belonged to one person holding the ears of grain in the campaign against hunger. See Nethryk's post on page 2 for three hands of different color on the same topic!  |
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The grains held by the hands look like rice, but the three ears of grain next to them are probably wheat.  |
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Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition emblem, and a portrait of King Faisal II (1935-1958), printed by photogravure (Courvoisier, S.A.) on granite paper, and issued by Iraq on June 1, 1957 to publicize the exhibition, held in Baghdad, Scott No. 172. - nethryk  |
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Hands of artists - conductor Richard Georg Strauss (1864-1949)
 
Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.
He is known for his operas Der Rosenkavalier and Salome and orchestral works like Also sprach Zarathustra, An Alpine Symphony....
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