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| 1972: 400th Anniversary of the Birth of Johannes Kepler |
As they say "On the shoulders of giants" so with astronomy and for the purpose of this week's Sunday Stamps hirsute theme, a fine beard. Kepler travelled
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| 1946:Tycho Brahe - 400th Anniversary of his Birth (Design V Bang; Engraver S Ewert) |
to meet Tycho Brahe near Prague in 1600 where Brahe was constructing a new observatory. Looking at their depiction in these two stamps they had not only astronomy in common.
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| 1972: Celebrity Portraits (Design - Hans Erni) |
Only a moustache from Albert Einstein . With that famous hair the addition of a beard might have been a little over the top.
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| 1986-7: Definitives The Post - Past and Present (Design K Oberli; Engraver P Schopfer) |
My postie doesn't have a beard however this one from Switzerland does.
Sunday Stamps theme this week is - Beards and moustaches - growing at See It On A Postcard
3 comments:
Ah, finally, a close shaven beard!
That is quite the moustaches on Tycho and Johannes. (I look at them and my second thought is about how itchy their chins and necks must have been!)
One cannot think of moustaches and not mention Einstein's!
The postman on the stamp is a very elegant man.
I like your postman stamp! Elegant indeed.
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