Hello everyone,
like every year, the Slovak Post has finally published the results of the poll for the most beautiful Slovak stamp (of 2022). Here are the results:
And the winning stamp of the year is… 200th anniversary of the birth of important personalities of the Štúr generation! Which is a stamp I voted for!!!
I really like all three but in my opinion the Europa stamp was the most beautiful, I was in Slovakia this week and used some of them, I read up about the story behind it which is really interesting as well. Definitely cool they have a poll! Here in the Netherlands we don’t have such thing unfortunately.
Number 2 caught my eye and I was curious about the event it portrayed:
Ján Steinhübel
In 1836 he created a large painting, St. Martin on a horse. It is part of the collection of the SNM – The Museum of Spiš in Levoča. It is signed and dated on a stone in the bottom left corner. … Rombauer portrayed St. Martin, the Bishop of Tours, as a Roman soldier on a horse, who, after he saw a lame beggar, cut up his gown with a sword and gave him half. According to Roman law, only half of his gown belonged to a soldier, the other half belonged to the exchequer (official of the State), so he only gave away what belonged to him…
I liked stamp.2, all have nice engraving which are rarely done by any country nowadays, India don’t have suvh polls for selecting best stamp of the year:(
