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| 1961: Health (Design- Verebi Sandor and Tibor Gonczi) |
A scooter at a traffic light and a little girl chasing a butterfly. Do these stamps say "accidents will happen"? I think they do, so ring that emergency number
for the ambulance
and it could be destination operating table or a big needle with syringe with jars on hand to take blood samples.
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| 1953: Rebuilding Plan - 2nd Series |
Looks like the hospital is busy
A place to buy stamps to send the 'get well soon card'. This is inner city Budapest and csepel district 1 post office built in 1949-51 is still a post office, hurray. After World War Two Budapest lay in ruins and all its bridges destroyed and so the monumental task of rebuilding is what the stamps celebrate but the Hungarians of course restored the historic buildings as well as building new ones like this.
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| 1963: Red Cross Centenary (Design - Éva Zombory) |
The Red Cross centenary set featured lots of happy children. The artist is Éva Zombory (1927-1998) who produced lots of beautiful stamps for Hungary and won the "years most beautiful stamp" in 1971.
Lastly as it is World Space Week which always starts on 4th October (the date Sputnik 1 went into orbit)
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| 1965: Voskhod 2 Space Flight (Design - Lászlo Kékesi) |
here is one of space explorations heroes and the first man to walk in space, Alexei Leonov, a mission that nearly cost him his life when his space suit started to leak. Happily at 84 he is still with us today on earth, not only an ex-cosmonaut but artist and writer.
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| St Elizabeth of Hungary bringing food to hospital patients by Adam Elsheimer c1598 |
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This week's Sunday Stamps II prompt is the Letter H - for Health, Hungary and Hospital - hop over to
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7 comments:
Love that space stamp! I partially went with Hungary too for today but your variety definitely beats mine :)
Great double H today.
Love those 60s designs.
I just love how you link all the stamps.
The two latest are my favourites, but certainly all are wonderful designs.
a great selection of Hs, health and hospitals would never have crossed my mind
What a great selection and collection for letter H! It's always admirable to see efforts like this, I usually just find a single stamp for each letter.
I'll certainly look at Hungarian stamps in a different way after seeing this great selection.
It took me a moment to find the scooter and the butterfly net on the first two stamps!
Love the last two.
Speaking of the 'first man' to walk in space, I went to see First Man on the weekend - highly recommend it.
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