Stamps With Words And/Or Numbers As The Main Design

This June 1, 1971 stamp (Facit #695) of Finland commemorates the bicentenary of the country's first newspaper, which was printed in Swedish. Incredibly, the small type is reasonably clear under 10X.

The 1961 credo series of six from the United States.

Belgium
Enterpreneurs society and Social security
February 11, 1995
100 and EE
50 and Social Security

Guernsey
3rd July 2003
"Letters on a stamp on a letter"





Designed - Andrew Fothergill
Printed - Joh Enschede

Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) (N. Korea)
15th Jan 1964
520th Anniversary of the Korean Alphabet

This stamp (Sc. #1220) is from Luxembourg's "European Capital of Culture" series of 2007.

The January 30, 1946 local issue of Strausberg, Germany (Soviet zone) is only words, numbers, and frame lines. Stamps are Michel #s 34B-37B.

Netherlands
Tour de France
July 1, 2010
A pane of 10 stamps, one stamp shows the text GRAND DEPART ROTTERDAM.

France 1964, "À Tous les Français" issued on the 20th anniversary of liberation. Design and engraving by Jacques Combet. Featuring the words of DeGaulle given in his famous BBC speech which came the day after Petain had declared fighting must end. DeGaulle was particularly trying to keep French soldiers in active arms, a number of whom were in England after being evacuated from Dunkirk two weeks earlier.
In 1964 he was President of France when Scott B378 [Maury 1408]was issued.

Bumped into this yesterday when pursuing a topical I wanted.
Dominican Republic, 1938, Sc. 335-337.

There are other design elements of course, but the triangle filled with words caught my attention and made me think of this thread. Scott calls it the "pledge of trinitarians," but even with rudimentary Spanish I could see it was not the Nicene creed, so I had to look it up.

The Society of Trinitarians was a secret group, originally of 9 members organized into cells of 3, formed by Juan Pablo Duarte in 1838 to pursue Dominican independence. Sanchez and Mella were the other principals involved who carried out the 1844 revolution establishing independence. So this must be their oath.

This 1990 Cost Rican stamp (Sc #426) commemorates the 50th anniversary of the University of Costa Rica.

This 1986 stamp of Costa Rica publicizes the UN's "Year of Peace". The word "peace" is repeated in many languages and lettering styles.

Switzerland
Centenary of the Swiss Civil Code
March 8, 2012
The design shows Article 2 of the code.

On May 16, 1941 Croatia issued these two stamps (Mi #s 41-2). They are overprints of Yugoslavian King Peter II definitives.

On October 24, 1975 India issued this one rupee stamp (Sc #701) to commemorate the birth bicentenary of Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775-1862), the country's last Mogul emperor. Stamp shows one of Zafar's poems.