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is in one line under the main castle design. The different types show slight variations in the design but several errors exist that include plate faults and flaws as well as different printing plates. Fewer variations exist in succeeding issues because the Ministry of Posts' designers, engravers and
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Every nation has a palladium of its own embodying past and future history. Ever since my boyhood I felt and saw in the architectural lines of St. Vitus Cathedral built so close to the castle, a powerful interpretation of our national symbol. I could, therefore, select no other subject for my design
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in 2h and 10h denominations, also designed by Alphonse Mucha were released. More values were added over time; 6h, 20h and 30h in 1919 and 5h, 50h and 100h in 1920. A few design variations and varieties exist. The 5h value, first released in September 1920 holds the record for the largest number of
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printing plate layout proposed by a private company who were going to use the gutter for advertising as well as pay the printing costs, however, even though the stamps had been printed, the booklet deal never happened.
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with the sun symbolically rising behind it is synonymous with the birth of the new state though the sun does not actually rise behind the castle. The stamps, designed by graphic designer
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in 1920 and for a discounted commercial printed matter rate in 1934 and a 2h was overprinted 5h to supplement the supply of that denomination.
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The issue comes in two distinct sets with fifty-three different stamps that can be classified by five different types. The words
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living in Prague, was chosen from the more than ten submitted designs. Mucha's reason for choosing the castle motif was because:
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In 1919 and 1920 the Czechoslovak Army in Siberia issued stamps for military posts and use on the Siberian Railway.
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symbolising the country, shows a woman breaking free from the chain of bondage. Both these sets also exist in
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After World War II, Czechoslovakia was re-established and regular issues of Czechoslovakia resumed in 1945.
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Brendl, Lumir (2003). "Occupied Czechoslovakia: protectorate Böhmen und Mähren". In Barnier, Fabien (ed.).
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nevertheless continued to exist during this time period. On 1 January 1993 Czechoslovakia
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5-heller Hradčany stamp used in 1919 to uprate a Hungarian postal stationery postcard
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are arranged around the two sides and top of the first set while on the second set
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Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Part 5: Czechoslovakia & Poland, 6th edition
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stamps printed being 3.6 billion. These stamps were also overprinted for use in
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Freer, Phillips B. (Summer 2010). "The Philately of Czechoslovakia, Part 1".
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which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the
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The last stamp of Czechoslovakia was issued on 18 December 1992 and marked
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Postage stamps and postal history of Germany § Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
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then Hradčany Castle and the surrounding architecture of the Middle Ages.
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At the same time as the Hradčany Castle stamps were issued in 1918, two
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existence, due to its forced division and partial incorporation into
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Checoslovaquia: sellos y sobrecargas, emisiones locales 1939–1945
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journal of the Czechoslovak Philatelic Society of Great Britain
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Specializovaný Katalog Protektorátu Čechy a Morava: 1939–1945
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Katalog Protektorat Cechy a Morava, Slovensky stat, Sudety
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Wilson, Mark (Summer 2013). "The Mucha Newspaper Stamps".
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Postage stamps and postal history of the Czech Republic
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Overprinted Czechoslovak stamp for use in East Silesia
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Hradčany Castle

Hradčany Castle
postage stamps
postal history
Czechoslovakia
Central Europe
Austro-Hungarian Empire
de facto
Nazi Germany
Czechoslovak government-in-exile
peacefully split
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Czechoslovak Republic
stamps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Hradčany Castle
Prague
Alphonse Mucha
Art Nouveau

Thomas Masaryk
Max Švabinský
carrier pigeon
tete-beche
booklet

newspaper stamp

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