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| December 1946: Winter Relief |
As the cheery buntings are out here for 75th Anniversary VE Day here is post war Europe. I could not find anything out about winter relief but the stamps show a destitute mother and child and a child begging for food. I seem to have only the grim stamps of this set for others show happy children receiving parcels. They would need aid for the winter of 1946/7 was brutally cold with food shortages. From these grey times things got better, for all things pass
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| 1965: International Children's Day |
and here we are planting trees and going to the beach because
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| 1996: Child Welfare Week (Design - Takashi Yanase) |
the sun is out.
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| 2014: Save the Children (Design - Jakob Monefeldt) |
Charity is still required and this stamp supports Save the Children (Red Barnet). The crisscrossing words in different colours tell a child's story for
Jakob Monefeldt always likes to tell a story through his stamps.
Sunday Stamps II theme this week is - Mothers/Children -
See It On A Postcard
6 comments:
Those first stamps are a bit grim, aren't they.
Definitely a lot more joy as you go down the post.
I enjoyed the photo, too - love the leash attached to the harness :)
Thank you Joy, for sharing.
"Sad" stamps are extremely rare.
I love a lot the idea of the story on the last stamp.
oh, another on-spot mother/child stamp for today! way to go!
I do like those grim stamps actually - make you aware about the not so good things in life in this world
I think these are the first grim stamps I've seen. I can't imagine putting those on a Christmas or birthday card!
I love that Jakob Monefeldt has all his stamps listed together.
I think I have some grim ones as well but nothing tat would match the Red Barnet stamp from Denmark.
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