Bosnia
(Croatia) stamps
P=have O=don’t have it
Issues made by the Croat Administration based on Mostar.
See: Yugoslavia stamps
Scott: #91O
Issued: 9.9.2002
Stamp Day
Inside #91: Bosnia-Herzegovina
#14P
Postage stamp
may readily describe as a “printed security attached to mail”. The cradle of
the first postage stamp was England where on May 6, 1840, a small sticky
rectangular piece of paper appeared with an imprint and indication of postage.
That was the famous “Black Penny” featuring the profile of Queen Victoria. By
mid-19th century, many postal authorities accepted the new way of payment of
postal services. The first World Postal Union (UPU/WPU) was established in Bern
in 1874, where also appeared philatelists, patient collectors who studied
stamps.
The first Stamp
Day was celebrated in Austria in 1935 when the Austrian Post issued a stamp for
the occasion, and next year this was widely accepted throughout the world.
H. von Stephan,
who reorganized postal services and established the World Postal Union, was
born on September 9.
Scott: #99O
Issued: 5.4.2003
Europa 2003 - Poster art
Poster of the Croatian Post Office of Mostar
Inside #99:
Bosnia (Croatia) #82O
A poster is a
publicly displayed advertisement or announcement, generally printed on paper,
with the intention of attracting attention and informing the passerby. Although printed public announcements can be
found as far back as the 15th century, the beginnings of poster as we know them
today are connected with the 1960s and innovations in the area of lithography
that made fast and inexpensive multicolor printing possible. The first great poster artist was a
Frenchman, Jules Chéret.
The posters that
Chéret produced in 1867 for the theatrical performances of the leading
actress of the day, Sarah Bernhardt, influenced the spread of this new art form
throughout the world and attracted other artists to this mode of
expression. The posters by Henri de
Tolouse-Lautrec in the late 19th century are lively and picturesque depictions
of Parisian life, and today are of exceptional value to collectors and esteemed
works of art.
In 1894,
Alphonse Mucha produced a poster for the artistic scene for the next
decade. During World War I, posters
were the main medium for propaganda. In the USA, over 20 million posters with
2,500 different designs were printed in only two years. During the 1920s, Art
Deco developed under the influence of industrial advances and new art trends as
the dominant style for art posters. Although the poster received strong
competitions an advertising medium during the 20th century by other mass media,
especially television, it continues to develop and is everywhere today.
During the 20th
century, printing techniques improved constantly, the personal computer became
a basic tool for the majority of poster artists, and the dominant styles and
schools of posters were changed. The development of the pop culture of the
1960s provided posters with new impetus. Reproductions of the famous posters of
the 20th century such as Glaser's Dylan, Flagg's I Want You for the U.S. Army
or Capipiell's Maurin Quina are sold throughout the world.
Scott: #151a-dO
Issued: 15.1.2006
50th Anniversary of the First Europa Stamps
Inside #151c: Bosnia (Croatia) #99O
Scott: #151O
Best website related:
http://www.post.ba/about_stamps.php
All stamps of the new states of ex-Yugoslavia
http://membres.lycos.fr/europa_cept/ex-yougoslavia_a.htm
Herzeg Bosnia
http://www.euro-soft.nl/yuclub/