Turn On The Light! Candles, Lamps, Torches, Candelights, Bedside Lamps.

Here is the 40c value (Sc #559) from Tuvalu's November 20, 1990 Christmas set of four stamps. Stamp depicts a Nativity scene, including a lantern.

On July 30, 1985 Great Britain issued a four-value set commemorating 350 years of Royal Mail public postal service. The 31p value (SG #1292) of the set depicts parcel delivery in winter and features a shining street light.

This 100 cents value (Sc #203) of Eritrea is from the April 22, 1993 set of five stamps commemorating the state's Referendum for Independence. The burning candle symbolizes the hope for peace and resolve for freedom.

A modest lamp is used as an icon for celebrating normal people's right to manufacture and sell.

Finland
19 December 1959
"Centenary of Trade Freedom in Finland"

Nice one tomonakaazu! Facit says this about the subject, "Symbol of the Jubilee year (an oil lamp)."

On December 14, 1971 the Ryukyu Islands (occupied Okinawa and Ryukyu Islands) issued its last stamp. This 4c value (Sc #228) commemorates the 25th anniversary of the territory's Nurses' Training System.

Humble light is often symbolising the devoted nursing activities... I like the Ryukyu stamp, bookbndrbob!

South Africa
1964
"Nursing Association"

Here is Italy's June 7, 1952 25 lira stamp (Sc #604) honoring Italian labor throughout the world and commemorating the Overseas Fair hosted by Naples.

Great post on May Day, bookbndrbob. I am guessing that any method of light made an industry worker's day longer historically, and their after-work-gathering under a torch became a sort of early form of workers' union... Here is a torch for workers training;

Japan
10 November 1970 / 19th Vocational Training Competition

An extended labour's day... he looks tired. Well, revolutions or demonstrations for worker's right was not avoidable in many societies.

Czechoslovakia
25 September 1954 / Metal worker



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Ooooops this stamp above is already featured on page 13 (bookbndrbob has told me a post below) and still in time for correction/addition, I am featuring one more here;

Humble oil lamp is used as an icon for learning - people read/studied with tiny oil lamp in 150 years earlier from this stamp.

Poland
3 June 1970 / 150th anniversary of Plock Scientific Society

Tomonakaazu, your last posting appears on page 13 of this thread.

Ah, thank you bookbndrbob! Only 2 pages up!!! Still in time for correction, so I am changing the stamp now... then cannot find same context... so, adding another one instead .

No problem, tomonakaazu. Everybody (including myself), or just about everybody who has contributed to more than a few topical posts has done this. It is toughest when the thread gets over 20 pages...sometimes the eyes glaze over, and sometimes the stamp looks quite different, depending on how the image was prepared...and sometimes you just miss it.

Here is a 100 + 50 (pf) value (Mi #1719) from Germany's February 10, 1994 Olympic Winter Games sports charity set of four. The designer's (Luedtke) hard edge technique effective conveys the dancing flames, imo.

On November 10, 1972 Berlin issued this 20 + 10 (pf) value (Mi #441) as its Christmas charity stamp. The Holy Family is depicted, with Joseph holding a lantern.

The low value 1 (pf) stamps (Mi #s 362, 405) from the DDR's Five Year Plan definitive series depict a miner wearing a headlamp. There are two separate series of the stamps, with the first being offset printings and the subsequent being letterpress printings.

Here is the 60 + 30 (pf) value (Mi #421)from Berlin's February 4, 1972 "Animal Protection" youth charity set of four. Stamp depicts a hedgehog and a deer in a car's headlights while crossing a road.