Doves As Symbols Of Peace

You've left out the 1965 Scott#1320 stamp you posted on page 11.
Not sure why your numbers 0498 & 0500 are not in colour.

Panama's Peace Dove points to Panama, in case you forgot where it is. 1986.



(Hi Rod, My Grandmother once told me 'perseverance is a virtue'. Keep it up, what's your next country?. K.)

Gee Willikers !

#1320 just disappeared from my database (scan updated to include #1320)

Sometimes when I delete my duplicate images, I can accidentally add one
without seeing it, doesn't happen often.

No colour?
I employ my visual database, primarily as a "sort function"
If I get a bag of mixed Poland, I sort into values, then hit the value filter.
I can sort a few hundred in a trice, and know what stamps I need from the results.
The grey images are 1 way to know I am missing that issue.





Ha! Kris, I am going into thematic retirement,....

Current Poland Status:
40 stamps / Minisheets. to 1986

For the record:
I have found one of my favourite image organisers "Picasa" has a fault,
It refused to include any images in a filter, that are under 10Kb in size.

Hence I had to go back to ACDSee to collate these Poland images.

Argentina issued a stamp for the international year of peace with a most unusual Dove: a sculpture showing the bird in an odd position. Unfortunately I don't know who did the sculpture.



(Hi Rod, 'Stamping' is just my hobby - it sounds as if it has turned into work for you. What is "thematic retirement"? K.)

Very nice.
Looks like the style of the Romanian, Brancusi.
Actually : 30c, Pigeon, abstract sculpture by Victor Kaniuka.

Thematic retirement
Just a polite way to suggest Poland was my last effort

When you enjoy something, it's generally not work.

Hi Rod, I've been wondering if the symbolic bird in the stamp of 1979 is a Peace Dove or an osprey. I know that Poland has the osprey (or some other eagle) as national emblem, but its beak is usually open and it doesn't look as peaceful. This one resembles Picasso's Dove. What's your take? K.


(Thanks for the added info. K.)

Hello Kris,
opinion:
definitely not a bird of prey, no hooked beak.


Studying the rest of Polish issues, I think it is almost certainly, a stylised Polish Eagle, Kris.
The design is basically constant through the Polish Catalogue.
Esp. the tuft of feathers behind the head.

If you look at Sc#2336 it is the emblem for the Assoc of fighters for Liberty and democracy.
This could be loosely aligned to peace, but I would be circumspect.

I'd have it under "possible" until a native Pole could assist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socie...nd_Democracy

Ghana's Peace Dove for the 40th anniversary of the United Nations. Ghana became a member in 1957.

Bhutan issued a stamp with a Peace Dove for the Conference of Non-Aligned states in 1979. Hands in the small emblem show that friendship and agreement can be reached.

This is the partner stamp to one posted earlier for the holy year of 1933 by Italy. Does anyone recognize the building on the right?

Church of the Holy Sepulcher,
The site where Christ was crucified.

Corrado Mezzana...One of my favourite Stamp designers.


How's this for part of one's portfolio ?
Not sure if he was ever honoured on a stamp..
Designed for Italy, Poland , Tripolitania for just a few

Signor Mezzana again,
Vatican
(Image owner : Nethryk I think.)

The Peace Dove has become invisible. Embossed into the British stamp of 2001, you don't know it's there until you touch it.



(I ruined the focus to make it appear. K.)

People of different sizes and different colors get together in an attempt to hide the ugliness of a barrier wall with barbed wire. South Korea, 2016.



(Hi Rod, thanks for your info recently! K.)

In Berlin the wall was also painted with very dramatic scenes, some were saved. I don't have any stamps of the Israeli wall, but I found a photo on the web.