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| 1980: Wildlife (Artist - Wendy Walsh: Graphics and text Peter Wildbur) |
Its Spring and hares are out in the open looking for a mate and perhaps, if lucky, one might see a hare like this but make a motion and its off at high speed. Like the hare I'm speeding but through the year to harvest time
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| 1916-20: Harvesters (Design - Ödön Tull) |
and the wheat fields of Hungary.
Ödön Tull (1870-1911) had won a Hungarian stamp design competition in 1909 which resulted in the issue of what is considered today a classic stamp unfortunately by the time of the first issue Tull had died. I leave the pastoral scene and journey to
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| 1946: Re-conversion to Peacetime (Design - Herman Herbert Schwartz; Engraver - Silas Robert Allen) |
the Canadian prairies as a combined harvester reaping and threshing the wheat speeds up the harvesting process considerably.
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| 1950: Airmail (Design - Zoltán Nagy) |
I like this Hungarian airmail set which combines fields, factories and transport
(see here) so I'll thrown in a tractor as well as a combined harvester.
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| 1955: Workers |
not forgetting the tractor drivers
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| 1989: Centenary of the Agricultural Museum (Design - B Bonfils; Engraver - A Kühlmann) |
this chap even has time to smoke his pipe. The mighty machine is a steam tractor from 1917 and in the distance can be seen a sight more common in 1917 of a horse drawn plow
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| 1994: The Red Cross: Finnish Horses (Design - P Vahtero) |
you cannot operate that sitting down.
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| 1961: Definitives (Agriculture and Art) |
although it looks as though neither can you on this combined harvester working in a rice field. After all this work a refreshing cold beer might be on the menu perhaps made from hops from one of the world's major growers, Germany.
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| 1998: 1100 Years of Hop Cultivation in Germany (Design - Steiner) |
Here they are harvesting the hops, today of course there is a machine that does this but not as scenically as the workers on the stamp.
The Sunday Stamps prompt this week is the Letter H - here for Hungary, Harvest, Hare, Horses and Hops - hare over for more at
See It On A Postcard
funny, a bunny or a rabbit would always cross my mind for the corresponding letters, but totally missed the Hare :)))
ReplyDeleteA woman, a tractor driver - now that is not something you see very often. Great to see it portrayed on a stamp!
And you are right, a machine harvesting the crops would never be as scenic as the workers on that stamp! Lovely!
Great selection. My favourite stamps would be the woman driving a tractor and also the harvest of hops. There are places when people still do that by hand. Then the beer is more expensive, of course!
ReplyDeleteLove the hare. I had an article published in Irelands Own about this animal.
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