France 2003 Milan Stefanik
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date : 3rd May 2003
- one value
- Designed by : Jan Baláž and M Činovsky
- Engraved by Claude Jumulet
- Printed by : ITVF, Boulazac, in sheets of 40
- Print process : recess
- stamp format height 36mm x width 26mm
- Perforations : 13 x 13¼
General Milan Rastislav Štefánik 1880-1919
0.50€ ~ portrait in uniform of the Slovak military officer, fought in French Air Force 1914-1918, founding father of new Czechoslovak Republic (1919) in which he was Minister of Defence
Also an astronomer, stamp depicts the observatory at Meudon
Joint issue with Slovakia
