Issues of polish stamps II/2003
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POLISH FAIRY-TALES
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Designers of the illustrations:
Janusz Stanny - face value 1. 20 PLN
Teresa Wilbik-Stanny - face values 1. 80 PLN, 2. 10 PLN, 2. 60 PLN
quantity of stamps: 4
issues:
face value 1. 20 PLN - 4, 000, 000 pcs
face value 1, 80 PLN - 3, 000, 000
face value 2. 10 PLN - 2, 000, 000
face value 2. 60 PLN - 1, 500, 000
printing technique: rotogravure
size of stamps: 40, 5 x 54 mm
paper: fluorescent
selling sheets: 35 stamps each sheet
date of circulation: 30 June 2003 |
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We hope that the prepared by Polish Post stamps of the issue "Polish Fairy-tales" will make pleasure to our youngest clients. A nice surprise also for the parents will be the authors of the presented on the stamps pictures - Janusz Stanny and Teresa Wilbik-Stanny. Artists extraordinary whose works have stimulated the imagination of many generations of children.
A beautiful picture acts as magnet. A child always first see the pictures and then after is interested with the contents of the book. A grown up person will see mainly the characters, a child will notice a little mouse in the corner, a ladybug in the grass, very little details, elements of the outlying background.
According to Janusz Stanny a good picture should includes intelligent sense of humor, witty remarks. To prepare the young consumer to a contact with plastic arts - by big "A" - in the future.
We invite you to the land of fairy-tales. You will have there the brave prince Krak. During St. John's Night will blossom the crock of gold. We will meet the stupid Mateo and also the princess incanted into a frog. Our heroes will fight with bad forces and self weakness. They will experience the taste of wealth and the gall of loneliness. They will know what defeats and victories are as well as true love. But always truth, honesty and also good heart will show them the proper way
The respective post stamps refer to the following works:
- face value 1. 20 PLN- "The fairy-tale about Krak", unknown author,
- face value 1. 80 PLN- fairy tale about "Stupid Mateo"by Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski,
- face value 2. 10 PLN- fairy tale about "The princess incanted into a frog" by Antoni Jozef Glinski,
- face value 2. 60 PLN- fairy tale about "The crock of gold" of Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski.
On the day of introduction of the stamps into circulation will be in sales two types of FDC on which will be presented the illustrations to the fairy-tales "Stupid Mateo" and "the crock of gold" . At the Post Office Warszawa 1 will be in use a special cancellation.
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MY DREAMED VACATION
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Designers:
face values 1.20 zł - Anna Gołębiewska,
face values 1.80 zł - Marlena Krejpcio,
face values 2.10 zł - Michał Korzeń,
face values 2.60 zł - Ewa Zajdler
quantity of stamps: 4
issues:
face values 1.20 zł - 4.250.000 pcs,
face values 1.80 zł - 1.600.000 pcs,
face values 2.10 zł - 1.050.000 pcs,
face values 2.60 zł - 900.000 pcs,
printing technique: rotogravure
size of the stamps:
face values 1.20 zł, 2.10 zł and 2.60 zł - 54 x 40,5 mm,
face values 1.80 zł - 40,5 x 54 mm
paper: fluorescent
selling sheets: 35 stamps each sheet
date of circulation: 20 June 2003 |
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The presented issue is a result of the competition for a project of a post stamp "My dreamed vacation" carried on by Polish Post for children and youth from elementary schools. From among 20 thousands of works executed in many different techniques: stick-in pictures - a very laborious technique using tiny pieces of paper, little pellets of crinkled paper, plasticine , noodles, pieces of glass, mirrors, shells, threads, matches and even sand and stained-glass panels, have been selected four works, which have been presented on the stamps:
- face value 1.20 PLN - eleven years old Anna Golebiowska from Bukowo Morskie,
- face value 1.80 PLN - twelve years old Marlena Krejpcio from Slobodka,
- face value 2.10 PLN - ten years old Michał Korzen from Zamosc,
- face value 2.60 PLN - ten years old Ewa Zajdler from Lebork.
What were the vacation dreams of the little designers? A ride on a camel between the pyramids, sliding on a surfing desk or feeding chickens on an agro-tourist farm.
On the day of introduction of the stamps into circulation will be in sales two types of FDC on which have been presented two from the ten additionally rewarded works: of Wiktor Waligora /9 years old/ from Busko-Zdroj and Daniel Jasionowski /7 years old/ from Szypliszek. At the Post Office Warszawa 1 will be in use a special cancellation.
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ROYAL BATHS /LAZIENKI/
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designer: prof. Stanislaw Wieczorek
quantity of stamps: 4
face values: 1. 20, 1. 80, 2. 10, 2. 60 PLN
issues:
face value 1. 20 PLN - 4, 000, 000
face value 1. 80 PLN - 3, 000, 000
face value 2. 10 PLN - 2, 000, 000
face value 2. 60 PLN - 1, 000, 000
printing technique: rotogravure
size of the stamps: 43 x 31, 25, 5 mm
paper: fluorescent
selling sheets: 50 stamps each sheet
date of circulation 30 May 2003
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The Royal Baths, called also Warsaw Baths are an authentic monument of the history but also a place charming by its beauty, where as says the poet "Poland can be seen better".
The history of the famous park and palace complex reaches the year 1680, when on the commission of the prince Stanislaw Herakliusz Lubomirski the architect Tylman von Gameren has constructed a central pavillion Baroque style being a bath. Hence the name of the complex.
Stanislaw August Poniatowski, the last king of Poland, conferred to LAZIENKI the shape that in his basic outline was preserved to the present time. He has created a center beaming the culture all over the Country. It is his merit that the name Royal Baths became current. On the commission of the King the architects D. Merlini and J.Ch. Kramsetzer and the sculptor A. Le Brun transformed the bath building into a classicistic palace called since then The Palace on the Island or The Palace on Water. Summer time the king celebrated the so called "Thursday Dinners" with participation of outstanding men of letters, scientists and artists. In the park have been built in the style of early classicism the White House and the Myslewicki Palace, a pavillon in Chinese style, also an amphitheatre with the stage on an island, a bridge with the monument of the king Jan III Sobieski, the Great Orangery and the building of the Guardhouse. Has been started to be erected the church called the Temple of Erroneousness according to the project of J. Kubicki.
The period of splendor of the park-palace complex passed with the end of the reign of the king Stanislaw August. The later history of the Royal Baths has been identical with the difficult history of the whole nation. During the II World War the museum collections have been robed and taken to Germany. The Nazi have destroyed the monument of Fryderyk Chopin, have burned the Palace on the Island. After the war the Royal Baths have been reconstructed, they are as formerly accessible to the public, are taking place concertos, theatre spectacles and meetings, museums are in activity.
On the prepared by the Polish Post set of post stamps are presented the most characteristic for LAZIENKI monuments:
- face value 1. 20 PLN - Palace on the Island /South view/
- face value 1. 80 PLN - Palace on the Island /North view/
- face value 2. 10 PLN - Myslewicki Palace
- face value 2. 60 PLN - the Amphitheatre.
On the day of introduction of the stamps into circulation will be in sales two types of FDC on which has been placed the sculpture Venus from the Bath Room of the Palace on the Island and the monument of the king Jan II Sobieski. At the Post Office Warszawa 1 will be in use a special cancellation.
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EUROPE
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quantity of stamps: 1
face value: 2. 10 PLN
printing technique: rotogravure
paper: fluorescent
selling sheet: 35 stamps
size of the stamp: 40.5 x 54 mm
issue:1, 360, 000 pcs
designer: Wieslaw Walkuski
date of circulation: 5 May 2003 |
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The subject of the current issue of the post stamps in the framework of the cycle EUROPE is poster. For the post administration belonging to PostEurop /Association of the Public Post Operators/ it is an excellent occasion to present the attainments of its own country in the domain of art.
Polish poster is highly appreciated in the whole world and the Polish artists are included to the world top in this domain of utility graphics. Polish Post has already presented on the stamps the works of the outstanding poster artists on the set "The Polish Poster". This time we present the work of the artist graphic Wieslaw Walkuski - painter and author of illustrations, author of more then 200 posters, an artist esteemed in the country and outside.
The poster seen on the stamp refers to the exhibition 'VANITAS. Coffin portrait on the background of Sarmatian /old-Polish/ funeral customs". The artist has in a very presentatively way illustrated the subject of the exhibition, has touched many threads, forcing the spectators to a reflection on its own life, passing away, the substance of existence. The presented on the poster woman awaken pensiveness over the fragility of the beauty and transitoriness of the worldly possessions. The poster has been highly appreciated at the XV Exhibition of Polish Poster in Katowice in 1997, where it received the Grand Prix.
A great artistic event has been also the exhibition "VANITAS. Coffin portrait on the background of Sarmatian /old Polish/ funeral customs" presented in the National Museum in Poznan.
The coffin portrait is strictly linked with Sarmatian customs, understood as a group of features attributed to the morality, mentality, culture and literature of the nobles in Poland by the end of the XVI century up to the end of XVII century. Realized by anonymous artists on a metal sheet, had the shape of a hexagon or octagon, which corresponded to the section of a coffin. Set by the bed-head of the coffin was after the funeral ceremonies suspended in the church or in the vault. This portrait presented the bust of the dead person, fixing strait the spectator. Its features have been reality and strong expression.
On the day of introduction of the stamp into circulation will be in sale an FDC with special cancellation in use at the Post Office Warszawa 1.
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