Doves As Symbols Of Peace

Invite a Peace Dove over for the Holidays! Bermuda, World Peace Day, 2002.

(Idebee - interesting background info! Picasso's political opinions may have played a role? K.)

Hi, Kris, you bet! But I think the most important reason is that world peace is the big trend. Mr. Picasso and his dove is just with this trend. And here is another dove stamp for your reference, 10 anniversary of the the World Peace Conference, with Mr. Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie, the Chairman of the Conference, as the main design on the left one. You see, a lot of people will fight for it for free even willing to give their lives. The above mentioned Sun Zhongshan, the founding father of new China, has a most well-known saying in China: The world trend is powerful and mighty, those who go with it will flourish, and those who go against it will perish.

Recently I have just seen, a little to my astonishment, Mr. Sun and President Linchon together on one stamp, with their main political believes inscribed on either side. Actually their opinions are very very similar. From that one can see that these things, like freedom, equality, democracy, peace, are the big trends, and as I see it in my shallow opion, they are the so-called Truth. With a word I have learnt recently from collecting stamps, these are the "crystals" of thounds of years of civilizations of humankind. People need time to learn their lessons, and to get to know the truth, right?.

And I think that's the main reason why I love peace dove stamps so much, and the above postmark as well, even thought it has no color and no picture, with just a station name: He Ping Li (Peace Community). The beautiful thing is the peace and the truth, dove is just an embodyment of it. I suppose that is also the reason why people tend to have named so many places with peace (He Ping in Chinese). They are everywhere, He Ping Hotel, He Ping Bridge, He Ping District, He Ping Street, He Ping Gate, He Ping Building, etc. you name it. And as for the collectors like me, the good part about it is that there is a post-office within it, and collectors can enjoy a related station name postmask, at least when needed to make a maxium card. :-)

International Year of Peace

International Day Against Drug Abuse

One of those pull-apart Christmas toys that make a small bang releases a Peace Dove; for the occasion with a twig of mistletoe! 1986

Women's Day

A Peace Dove brings a last minute decorative olive twig for the Christmas tree. 2016

UN's 10-Year Women Plan, with an interesting dove design!

Here is Norway's November 26, 1986 stamp (Facit #997) commemorating the International Year of Peace (UN).

Environmental Protection - Keep Away from Air Polution

Wouldn't it be wonderful if more Peace Doves could mean more Peace? An unusual illustration of a nesting Peace Dove. One in a set of two.

Commemorative Sheet of the 28th National Best Stamp Poll

20 years of Diplamatic relations of Israel & China


The FDC's has a quite different design of traditional Chinese style. It is interesting to put them together and compare the two birds and the two styles.

The Paraguayan stamp was issued in honor of the second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican in 1962. A very simply drawn Peace Dove above the cross.

(Hi, Idebee, I knew of the China-Israel issue, see top of page 10, but the cedar waxwing was new to me. Very pretty, but lighter in color than the ones we have here. K.)

Hi, Kris, glad to know its English name, was wing, very interesting! In Chinese it is called peace bird, and a symbol of world peace in ancient China. Only these several decades the Picasso's peace dove has gained more and more popularity and has taken her place. It's great to see these two kinds of birds side by side in the same frame, double peace assured! :-)

60th & 70th Anniversaries of WWII .A little redundant? Not very sure, perhaps they have already appeared in some page? Anyway, just for your reference!