Korea (North) 1983 Corregio

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  • Label : "조선의 체신체계" ("North Korean Postal Service") of the Democratic People‘s Republic Korea (= "DPR Korea" = North Korea); 1983; commemorative block to the issue "450th anniversary of death of Antonio da Corregio";

(issue of 1 block à 4 stamps)

Meant is the painter of the Italian High Renaissance and Manierism Antonio da Corregio (1489-1534).

Stamp datas“:

  • Catalogue number : Michel: No. Block 165 (stamps: No. 2427-2430); Yvert & Tellier: No. BF 35J
  • Color : multicolored with gold
  • Watermark : none
  • Nominal value : 1.75 (Won) = 20 + 25 + 50 + 80 (Cheun)
Desktop price for sale : 1.85 Won
  • Postage validity : since 12 December 1983
  • Designed by : Antonio da Corregio (1489-1534) (creator of the depicted artworks)
  • Printed by : "Foreign Languages Printing House" (= "Government Printing Works"), Pyongyang
  • Print process : Offset printing on luminescent paper
  • Perforation : Comb perforation, K 13¼
  • Stamp size :
- (printed area of a single block stamp) : 35.0 x 46.5 mm
- cutted format of the block : 174.5 x 237.5 mm


Commemorative block issue to the issue "450th anniversary of death of Antonio da Corregio";
(issue of 1 block à 4 stamps)

Block issue

Michel: Block No. 165, mint
Michel Block No. 165, postmarked


To the stamp motives:
All depicted artworks are details (with exception of the 25 (Cheun)-stamp) from paintings by Antonio da Corregio (1489-1534) in the style of the Italian High Renaissance.
- 20 (Cheun) : painting "Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalene" or "The Day"; created ca. in 1528; contemporary shown to the public at the "Galleria Nazionale", Parma (Italy)
- 25 (Cheun) : the same painting, but the total painting how at 20 (Cheun)
- 50 (Cheun) : painting "The Mystical Marriage of the Santa Catherine of Alexandria"; created ca. 1518; contemporary shown to the public at the "Museo Nazionale di Capodiminte", Naples (Italy)
- 80 (Cheun) : painting "Madonna with the Infant Saint John the Baptist" or the so-called „Bolognini Madonna“; created ca. 1547; contemporary shown to the public at the "Castello Sforzesco", Milan (Italy)
- block motive : painting "Adoration of the Christ Child", created between 1518 and 1520; contemporary shown to the public at the "Uffizi Gallery", Florence (Italy)