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NEW WORLD ISSUES BY FRED BAUMANN editorial content specialist | fbaumann@stamps.org CZECH REPUBLIC THE STRUGGLE FOR CZECH STATEHOOD As this Oct. 10 Czech Republic souvenir sheet reminds us, the end of World War I was in fact the beginning for many smaller European states that had been incorporated into the autocratic Austro- Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia) being among them. The two 33-koruna stamps on this sheet – the last in a series begun with Scott 3609 in 2014 − echoes that theme. The upper stamp pictures Prague’s St. Wenceslaus Monument honoring both the nation’s patron saint and the statue itself as a mute witness to the birth of national independence on October 28, 1918. It was on that day that the nascent First Republic of Czechoslovakia came into being when agents of its National Committee refused to send more grain to Austro-Hungarian troops at the front – the first decisive move of what was to become an independent state. The second stamp depicts Tomas G. Masaryk, founder and first president of that republic until 1935. The periphery of the 40-millimeter by 50mm sheet contains a litany of the key events and individuals of that turbulent era, some of whom appear in the design. GUERNSEY SEASON’S GREETINGS AT THE KIOSK Just off the coast of France, the Channel Island of Guernsey offered an innovative service to enable its 63,000 citizens to print their own Post & Go holiday stamps this year. On November 22, Guernsey Post announced that from December 3 to 21 it would “vend Bailiwick Flower stamp strips with the overprint message ‘Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year 2018.’ ‘Our Post & Go kiosks continue to be really popular and, following the great response to the Guernsey Information Centre location this year, we’ve decided to add a festive message…’ explained Bridget Yabsley, head of philatelic at Guernsey Post.” No details were given as to how long these stamps would remain available, but Guernsey Post noted that “Strips can be ordered directly online… or email philatelic@guernseypost.com.” UNITED KINGDOM PRINCE OF WALES GETS 70TH BIRTHDAY STAMPS Royal Mail delivered a very special 70th birthday present to Prince Charles Philip Arthur George on November 14 – a set of six stamps showing His Royal Highness undertaking official duties and with family members. As the first-born child of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles became the Prince of Wales and the Heir to the Thrones of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth realms, and the future Head of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Two of the six stamps depict Prince Charles with his sons: Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge; and Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex. In the stamp shown, all three men appear in Royal Air Force uniform in a previously unpublished photo taken at the recent RAF centenary commemorations in 2018. The stamps, sheet, press sheets and picture postal cards are available from www.royalmail.com/princeofwales 94 AMERICAN PHILATELIST / JANUARY <strong>2019</strong>
ROSS DEPENDENCY KEEP ’EM FROSTY, BUT KEEP ’EM FLYING Named for British naval officer and explorer Sir James Clark Ross, the Ross Dependency is one of 11 wedge-shaped sectors of Antarctica claimed by a nation, its claimant being New Zealand. Like all of Antarctica, working and living there are only possible thanks to rugged and reliable aircraft to staff and supply the polar outposts. On November 7, New Zealand Post issued a set of six stamps and a miniature sheet depicting six of its aircraft, four operated by the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) and two by private carriers. Shown is the low value, a $1.20 stamp picturing a variant of the RNZAF Auster T7C monoplane being offloaded from a cargo ship. Five other stamps in the set and sheet feature a $1.20 DHC2 Beaver ski monoplane, $1.20 C-130 Hercules, $2.40 Boeing 757 strategic air lift aircraft, $3.00 AS350-B3 Squirrel helicopter, and a $3.60 DCH-6 Twin Otter. CANADA REMEMBRANCE DAY On October 24, Canada issued a single stamp to mark the 100th anniversary of the day the guns fell silent at the end of the First World War. The “P”-rate stamp, paying Canada’s basic domestic letter rate (currently 85 cents), depicts the white dove of Peace above a strand of barbed wire, against the grim, gray vista of a forest shattered by shellfire. The stamp is inscribed “ARMISTICE” to commemorate 1918, but the dates marking the centennial are punctuated by a single decorative poppy of the type worn by Canadians of every age, gender and walk of life each autumn. In 1931, after the relief of peace subsided, the Canadian Legion representing hundreds of thousands of WWI veterans, had November 11 renamed as “Remembrance Day,” and the blood-red poppy with its black eye became its symbol. Recalling their losses − 66,000 dead, 172,000 wounded − those veterans realized that a day would come when no one would have any direct memory of “the Great War,” but that it was important that the suffering, the sacrifice and the loss be recalled, if only to prevent its repetition. The stamps are available in perforated panes of five with moisture-activated gum and selfadhesive die-cut booklets of 10 from Canada Post. CROATIA A LOCOMOTIVE LESSON Croatian Post (Hrvatska posta) issued two 7.60-kuna stamps October 5 to commemorate railway engines that ran between the capital at Zagreb and a western suburb at Samobor, near the Slovenian frontier. The narrow-gauge steam locomotive No. 7 was a 10-ton engine built in Germany capable of pulling light passenger and mixed trains up mild grades at a top permitted speed of 15.5 miles per hour (25 kilometers per hour). It ran from 1901 until December 31, 1979. Its diesel-electric counterpart, the Motor Train DEV I, was intended to be faster and more efficient than the aged pufferbelly that preceded it, but insistence on building it in Croatia ultimately involved 18 factories, a number of prototypes, and took four to ten years. The first DEV I took to the tracks in 1959, followed by three other versions in 1961, 1962 and 1965. Three years after the railroad closed for good in 1983, all four were scrapped. The newer trains had been able to travel as fast as 37 miles per hour, but the four of them together gave 85 years of service, whereas old No. 7 alone had given 79 and is still around in a museum. Slow and steady won the race. New worldwide stamps are presented for information and are not necessarily shown at the correct scale. The quality of images available at the time of release varies widely and we resize to achieve the best possible reproduction. JANUARY <strong>2019</strong> / AMERICAN PHILATELIST 95
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