12 - 14/9/2008

WORLD STAMP
EXHIBITION

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Exposition of the Postal Museum at the World Stamp Exhibition PRAGA 2008

The Postal Museum is a  specialized facility run by Czech Post for documenting the history and development of the postal service, especially within the territory of the present-day Czech Republic and with a  special emphasis on the development of stamp making and especially on the creators and on production documentation of stamp creations. The museum was founded shortly after the establishment of an independent Czechoslovakia in December 1918, together with the issuing of the first Czechoslovak postage stamp.

In a  building at the address Nové mlýny 2, Prague 1, visitors to the Postal Museum can now view museum exhibits dedicated to classic stamp creations of European countries, Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. Also available for visitors are a  reading room and specialized library. The exhibition salons upstairs are decorated with wall paintings by Josef Navrátil from 1847, and the entire historic baroque building is a  category I  protected monument. There is a  historical museum exposition in the abbey of the Cistercian convent in Vyšší Brod at the lowest point of Bohemia on the Austrian border. The exposition represents nearly five hundred years of development of the organized postal service in this country, since the election of the King of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from the Habsburg family in 1526 until today. The services of Czech Post are also presented here.

 

For the world exhibition of postage stamps, the Postal Museum is preparing the following:

The Palace of Industry at the Prague Fair Grounds

1. IN THE HALL OF FAME THERE WILL BE TWO EXHIBITS:

Printing sheets of the first Czechoslovak stamps by Alfons Mucha’s designs - "Hradčany" and newspaper stamps "Flying falcon",

Unaccepted designs for the Czechoslovak charity postage stamps "For childern", resulting from the competition announced by Ministery of posts and telegraphs in 1936.

2. STAMP CREATIONS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC FROM 1993 TO 2008

A selection from fifteen years of production of Czech postage stamps with an emphasis on stamps that have won awards in national surveys and international competitions. A  part of the exhibition will be showings of graphic designs and line drawings for individual stamps and for first day issue envelopes (to a  similar extent there will be a  presentation of Slovak Post and the stamp creations of Slovakia from 1993 – 2008).

3. FROM CZECH POSTAL HISTORY

Postal stagecoach from the Žamberk post office from the 2nd half of 19th century. Part of the exhibition in the Palace of Industry will be a  presentation of three-dimensional collectors items from the days of the Austrian monarchy and Czechoslovakia between: historical postal uniforms, badges, travel facilitites and post boxes.

Postal Museum, Nové mlýny 2, Prague 1

For the world exhibition PRAGA 2008:

 

1. THE WORLD’S FIRST NWESPAPER STAMPS FROM 1851 – MERKURS

Visitors can see, among other things, the world’s only eighty-stamp block of blue Merkurs.

On the first floor in the salons decorated with wall paintings by Josef Navrátil from 1847 there will be exhibits of the Philatelic Literature Competition Class.

Permanent stamp exhibition of the Postal Museum:

 

2. First issue of Austrian postage stamps from 1850

incl. samples on period correspondence.

3. Classic European stamp creations

The oldest postage stamps from European countries issued from the half of the 19th century until 1914.

4. The first Czechoslovak postage stamps – Mucha’s Hradčany Castle

including a  showing of printing sheets of various values, black proofs and printers waste.

5. Chronological overview of Czechoslovak postage stamps (1918 - 1939, 1945 - 1992)

including a  showing of first-day issue envelopes.

6. Special collections, gifts to the Postal Museum

7. Prizes, medals and diplomas awarded for Czechoslovak and Czech stamps

 
 
Pavel Čtvrtník, Alena Reichlová
 
 
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