Poland 1973 World Stamp Exhibition
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- Label : "Poczta Polska" (Post of Poland); commemorative stamps of the issue "World Postage Stamp Exhibition" 1973 in Poznan (= "Światowa Wystawa Filatelistyczna");
(issue of 4 stamps)
The „World Postage Stamp Exhibition“ (= "Światowa Wystawa Filatelistyczna") 1973 took place in the time 19 September – 02 October 1973 in Poznan (German: "Posen").
Stamp datas:
- Catalogue numbers : Michel: No. 2258-2261; Yvert & Tellier: No. 2099-2102; Scott: No. 1982-1985; AFA: No. 2140-2143
- Colors : multicolored
- Watermark : none
- Nominal values : 1 – 1.50 – 2.70 – 4 Zł (Złoty)
- Postage validity : since 30 June 1973
- Designed by : Waldemar Andrzejewski (1934-1993)
- Printed by : "Państwowa Wytwórnia Papierów Wartościowych" (PWPW) , Warsaw (Poland)
- Print process : Offset printing
- Perforation : Comb perforation, K 11½ : 11¼
- Print runs :
- - 1Zł : 16,446,000 in sheets à 30 stamps
- - 1.50 Zł : 16,930,000 in sheets à 30 stamps
- - 2.70 Zł : 5,253,000 in sheets à 30 stamps
- - 4 Zł : 5,856,000 in sheets à 30 stamps
- Stamp size :
- - vertical formats (printed area of a single stamp as distance between the inner tangents of the perforation lines) : 30.0 x 42.0 mm
- - horizontal formats (printed area of a single stamp as distance between the inner tangents of the perforation lines) : 42.0 x 30.0 mm
Commemorative stamps of the issue "World Postage Stamp Exhibition" 1973 in Poznan (= "Światowa Wystawa Filatelistyczna");
(issue of 4 stamps)
Stamps
Mint
Postmarked
To the stamp motives:
All stamps shows additionally beside inscriptions the logo of this stamp exhibition.
- 1 Zł : Town seal of Poznan from the 14th century, showing an old twon coat of arms of Poznan
- 1.50 Zł : Tombstone of Bishop Peter Nicholas Tomicki (1524)
- 2.70 Zł : Paken plate from Kalisz (German: "Kalisch"), 12th century
- 4 Zł : Lion door knocker from a bronze gate (12th century)
