1952: May Day(Design - S Legrady) |
Workers of the world unite for May Day although the person with the military helmet at the back is a bit of a worry however the man with the big hammer looks as though he can take care of things.
1950-53: Five Year Plan (Design - S Legrady) |
I like how they use the 5 in this design showing factory workers and draughtsmen.
1952: Miners Day (Design - F Gal) |
Miners get their own special day when they can leave their mechanical coal cutter. behind.
1953: Budapest Underground Railway (Design - J Vertel) |
Still in the depths with continental Europe's oldest underground system (only London pre-dates it). The original M1 line of 1896 is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The stamp shows work starting on the extension Line M2 in the 1950s, an east-west route.
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1954: Definitive stamp |
Lets come out of the dark and into the bright light of the Nile valley with an agricultural worker
Sunday Stamps II theme this week is - Labour - See It On A Postcard
5 comments:
I thought for sure I'd have some Hungarian or Polish May Day stamps, but couldn't find any. Am glad you did. I did not know about Budapest's underground - another metro system to add to my list (whenever we get to travel again)
I like the style of the first stamp - so evocative of the Communist days of the 1950's.
Yes Violet Sky my thoughts too especially as a lot of the stations on the line have been preserved and I love a railway station.
These stamps seems to show a very different age...
The Hungarian stamps make me think of propaganda for some reason or other.
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