What Are Some Red Cross Stamps That You Have??

Centenary of the foundation of the British Red Cross, issued for use in Gilbert and Ellice Islands on March 2, 1970:

Lot of red crosses! Finland, 1940s.



Same years, notice that semi-postal had some svatiskas, and I'm not sure exercices they doing to their babies is really safe!

Thank you, nar1123, for sharing these great stamps, several are nicely designed and engraved. I think the last four, show baby doing exercises, were issued to fight Tuberculosis hence they have a version of the Cross of Lorraine, the logo of the campaign.



Could you, please, indicate which stamps have Swastika? Thanks.

Thanks to you for detail about history of last 4 stamps! I red in previous posts that 2nd and 3rd from top left were provincial symbols. The 7th from first row is Red Cross building...

The 4th from first row has a svatiska down left, it was from a small serie. Maybe the only of this kind from Finland? - updated - down right on the picture, but down left on the stamp, I guess you found it

I found other nice and funny red crosses yesterday, I'll keep the pleasure for later!

Have a good day!

Marc

Thanks, I looked at high resolution of the 4th stamp in first raw. Indeed, it has Swastika but I read in Wikipedia that it was used in Finland by defense forces in years 1918 and 1945, hence has no connection with the Nazis although the stamp was issued during WWII. The Swastika on your stamp is a version called fylfot or gammadion (depend the direction). Here is a Wiki summery on Swastika used in Finland (scroll down):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weste...20th_century

Will be glad to see your Red Cross stamps

I did know that symbol was used far before WW2 but not as much as the wiki link describe it! Since it been used in the past by Finnish army, it release all doubt of a direct link with Nazis, and the shape is different. I'm always surprised how world's acceptability changes with time : nowadays, if maple leaf was linked to such ideology, it would be the end of the maple syrup worldwide!

Here is my red cross today's serie, Indonesia, 1953

It starts smooth, heart, symbol of love, nice concept... or simple blood pump?



Then it starts to be weird, they need blood, they want blood, or they wash hands with blood?



Finally I just don't get it, they drinking it directly at the bottle, or maybe one tube it for the giver, going to a bottle, and the other is a straw?



I am joking... but those will be classified in my ugly/failed engravements I think!

Have a good day!

Marc

Centenary of Red Cross, issued for use in Gilbert and Ellice Islands on October 5, 1963. Same design stamps were issued in all Commonwealth members and British territories (I think in more than 35 entities) made them omnibus series:

Those are much nicer than my last post, I don't think I have some of them!

Those are classical normal issue, I don't think Australian ones ever shown here. The canadian one is for the cancel concept, a red cross stamp posted from military base.



Victoria H.M.C. Dockyard is the site of Pacific naval base of Canadian float, in Victoria, B.C., maybe soldier's correspondence?

France issued many semi-postal stamp sets to raise donations to the Red Cross, most of them are French art engraved stamps. I already posted them in the "collecting by engravers" thread hence I show them here in groups since I don't want to duplicate my posts.

Stamps engraved by Jules Piel and issued on December 17, 1951:

- Portrait of Nicole Richard as Child by Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704 – 1788).
- Portrait of Suzanne de Bourbon (1491-1521) called Child in prayer, Painting by Master of Moulins or Jean Hey (1450-1505).

Paintings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 – 1806), engraved by Jules Piel and issued on December 10, 1962:

- "Rosalie Fragonard":
- "The Child in Pierrot"

Stamps engraved by Jules Piel and issued on December 7, 1963:

- Child with Grapes, sculpture by David d'Angers (1788 – 1856).
- The Fifer, painting by Edouard Manet (1832 – 1883)

Two semi-postal sets of stamps were issued for years 1968-9 to raise donations to the Red Cross, show personifications of the four seasons, paintings by French artist Nicolas Mignard (1606-1668), designed by Pierre Gandon, engraved by Pierre Gandon (1968) or by Pierre Béquet (1969):

Here are the last group of semi-postal engraved art stamps issued by France to raise donations to the Red Cross:

Stamps engraved by Pierre Gandon and issued on December 13, 1971 show Paintings by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725 – 1805):

- "Girl with Small Dog":
- "The dead bird":


Stamps engraved by Pierre Gandon and issued on December 1, 1973:

- Mary Magdalene and holy woman, statues by Marguerite de Bourgogne from the Hôtel-Dieu of Tonnerre, an old medieval hospital in the town of Tonnerre , Burgundy, France.


Stamps engraved by Pierre Gandon and issued on November 20, 1976:

- Statues of Saint Barbara and the Cimmerian Sibyl, Royal Monastery of Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse in the Ain department, central France.

Red Cross, issued by the USA on November 21, 1952:

International Red Cross Congress, two stamps from a set of seven, issued by Greece on September 21, 1959:

Asclepius, god of healing in Greek mythology, ancient Greek statue:

Achilles tending the wounded Patroclus, Attic red-figure kylix, c. 500 BC, Berlin Museum, Germany:

Semi-postal engraved art stamps show statues by French sculptors, designed and engraved by Jules Piel and issued by France on December 22, 1950 to raise donations to the Red Cross:

- Alexandre Brongniart statue by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741 – 1828)
Alexandre Brongniart, (1770 - 1847), went on to become a respected mineralogist, geologist, and naturalist.

- Seated cupid ('Amour menaçant'), statue by Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716 – 1791)

For the centenary of the idea... Henri Dunant had the idea of such organisation after he ' witnessed the aftermath of a bloody battle between Franco-Sardinian and Austrian forces near the small village of Solferino'




Red cross on Pakistan stamp!