Oh well, someone has to go first. This is a page from the Holocaust Album, featuring that most amazing of men, Father Maximilian Kolbe.
Once again, apologies for the 'shadows' on the scan, but it is better than my first attempt.
I have attached the write-up below in case it is not legible on the image.
1. Germany 1973, SG1664, single issue, 25th May, commemoration
2. Poland 1982, SG2844, single issue,10th October, Sanctification
3. Poland 1994, SG3537, single issue, Birth Centenary
4. San Marino postcard, 28th August 1981, 40th Death Anniversary
Father Maximilian Kolbe, born Raymund Kolbe, 8 January 1894, in Zdunska Wola, Kingdom of Poland, became a Franciscan friar, taking the names Maximilian Maria, between 1911 and 1914. His early career in Rome saw him active in preaching, publishing and conversion. Returning to independent Poland in 1918 he founded a Franciscan monastery at Niepokalanów, near Warsaw, before emigrating to Japan in 1930.There he founded a monastery in Nagasaki (which survived the atomic bomb), returning in 1936. After the invasion of Poland in 1939, Niepokalanów became a shelter for Jewish and other refugees.
Kolbe was arrested by the Gestapo in February 1941, and transferred from prison to Auschwitz on 28 May. After an escape incident in July which required retribution, Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a condemned man, having heard him plead that he was a husband and father. His request was accepted and, together with nine others, he was condemned to a starvation cell. After three weeks, the only man remaining alive and conscious, he was murdered on 14 August by lethal injection. The man whose life he saved, Franciszek Gajowniczek, survived Auschwitz and lived to the age of 95. Maximilian Kolbe was beatified in 1971 and canonised 10 October 1982.
This is one of my favorite pieces picked up along the way. It appears to be hand colored on a very thin paper much like onion skin. I am not certain this fits the definition of an exhibit page and if it does not please let me know and I will delete it. If anyone knows the background on this please share it.
Re: the Japan item
"5 echte Japan-Marken" means "5 real Japanese stamps". So I believe that this was an early packet, or promotional album page sold by a German dealer. Probably 1890s or thereabouts. It's lovely -- and completely in keeping with the idea of a Clothesline Exhibit.
Roy
Tanganyika set of stamps of 1922-25 Giraffes
Stamps of Unusual Materials
This exhibit highlights some stamps produced on unusual materials or with unusual materials incorporated into the designs.
Bermuda - 2005
200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar
Original wood from HMS Victory, obtained when the ship was refurbished, is embedded in the mast, hull, and spars, on this stamp.
Austria - 2008
UEFA Soccer Tournament
This stamp is made from the same urethane material of which the soccer ball used in the tournament was made.
Portugal - 2007
Cork Production
Portugal issued this stamp made from cork, to publicize that country’s position as the world’s major cork producer.
Gibraltar - 2002
The Rock of Gibraltar
Pulverized limestone from the iconic landmark is embedded into the white areas of the Rock on these stamps.
Switzerland - 2004
Wooden Stamp
and
Switzerland - 2000
Embroidered cloth stamp
Swiss industry comprises more than just precision watches and fine chocolate. A stamp made of wood calls attention to Switzerland’s timber industry, while an embroidered cloth stamp publicizes the historic importance of St. Gallen Spitzen, as the embroidery is called, created in the canton of St. Gallen.
This is a non-competitive display (obviously, I don't want to win my own gift certificate!). "Likes" will be appreciated, but won't be counted in the final results.
I'd like to present an album page featuring two stamps from Canada's War Issue, showing the Ram Tank It's one of my early efforts to create my own pages, and the image of the tank, or rather its incarnation as an armoured personnel carrier, is the very first image I ever obtained on-line, before I even had a computer capable of displaying images, much less a printer capable of printing them. I went to a local computer store and asked one of the owners (it was operated by two brothers) if he would mind searching for an image for me. As I recall, it was the only one available at that time.
The Ram tank proved to be less than capable of competing against German armour, and when Canadian armoured units went into battle on D-Day, they were driving Sherman tanks.
In downtown Vancouver there's a Ram tank in front of the Beatty Street Armoury, the home of The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own), an armoured reconnaissance reserve regiment, the oldest military unit in Vancouver, and the most senior militia in the province. Here a photo of the tank that I took several years ago:
A couple of years ago I walked past the armoury again and was saddened to see that the tank had been defaced by graffiti.
Bob
Here's one from my watermill file
jopie
This is a page from my Apollo-Soyuz Test Project collection that I exhibit. Cover is autographed by both the Russian and American prime crews.
Beautiful exhibits, one and all!
I finished this up this morning. It's my first attempt at creating my own pages. I used PowerPoint, which was also a first. My goal was to create an attractive page, but keep it modest, don't over crowd it and let the stamps be the main focus.
I'll be typing up and printing a full history of King Peter I to accompany this front page.
WB
Roy, this is a great contest! I wish my work schedule would have let me enter this one. Maybe next time.
The idea of a one-page collection is fascinating, and one that I have been pursuing off-and-on for many years. For those of us who are a bit ADD and can't stop finding new areas to collect, the one page is sometimes as far as we get!
BTW, I went to "like" my favorites, and found that I had already liked most of them earlier, as they were being uploaded. If others did the same, that will probably favor the early up-loaders slightly?
-Steve
Terrific idea...Although I can`t post a picture of any of my pages I enjoy seeing how and what others collect! Thankyou Roy
Thank you, Roy. And many thanks to all the members of Stamporama.
Ted
Congratulations to youpiao and yes, we should definitely do it again. Thanks for a great idea and learning experience Roy.
Congrats, Ted! You are number 1!!!! Awesome.
Thank you, Carol; thank you, Luree.
Ted
All I can say is ...
Exonumia!
(remember, Ted?)
Well done indeed. Good competition Roy!
Exonumia!
Ted that was a very nice page.
Roy I enjoyed seeing others pages.
Doug
You set the bar high, youpiao! That's a well executed and interesting exhibit! Congrats on a solid win!
WB
Congratulations and thank you to everyone who participated. It sure was fun to look at all the exhibits.
Hope we do this again.
Mark
Thank you, Doug, WB, and Mark.
Ted
Congratulations Ted, great exhibit and thanks to you also Roy, for the Clothesline Exhibit #1. We'll look forward to more.
Mike
Thank you, Mike.
Ted
Congrats, Ted! Very well done!
So glad your hiatus is over! We are all the better for it!
-- Dave
Shucks, Dave. Thanks.
Ted
Congratulations, Ted!
Thank you, Michael.
Ted, congratulations! That is a very nice and informative
exhibit, I enjoyed it. I have the Swiss embroidery stamps and an Austrian embroidered Edelweis flower stamp, a chocholate stamp but I never saw the stamps- cork, stone, wood- that you showed! Thank you.
Jopie
Thank you, Jopie.
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Oh well, someone has to go first. This is a page from the Holocaust Album, featuring that most amazing of men, Father Maximilian Kolbe.
Once again, apologies for the 'shadows' on the scan, but it is better than my first attempt.
I have attached the write-up below in case it is not legible on the image.
1. Germany 1973, SG1664, single issue, 25th May, commemoration
2. Poland 1982, SG2844, single issue,10th October, Sanctification
3. Poland 1994, SG3537, single issue, Birth Centenary
4. San Marino postcard, 28th August 1981, 40th Death Anniversary
Father Maximilian Kolbe, born Raymund Kolbe, 8 January 1894, in Zdunska Wola, Kingdom of Poland, became a Franciscan friar, taking the names Maximilian Maria, between 1911 and 1914. His early career in Rome saw him active in preaching, publishing and conversion. Returning to independent Poland in 1918 he founded a Franciscan monastery at Niepokalanów, near Warsaw, before emigrating to Japan in 1930.There he founded a monastery in Nagasaki (which survived the atomic bomb), returning in 1936. After the invasion of Poland in 1939, Niepokalanów became a shelter for Jewish and other refugees.
Kolbe was arrested by the Gestapo in February 1941, and transferred from prison to Auschwitz on 28 May. After an escape incident in July which required retribution, Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a condemned man, having heard him plead that he was a husband and father. His request was accepted and, together with nine others, he was condemned to a starvation cell. After three weeks, the only man remaining alive and conscious, he was murdered on 14 August by lethal injection. The man whose life he saved, Franciszek Gajowniczek, survived Auschwitz and lived to the age of 95. Maximilian Kolbe was beatified in 1971 and canonised 10 October 1982.
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
This is one of my favorite pieces picked up along the way. It appears to be hand colored on a very thin paper much like onion skin. I am not certain this fits the definition of an exhibit page and if it does not please let me know and I will delete it. If anyone knows the background on this please share it.
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Re: the Japan item
"5 echte Japan-Marken" means "5 real Japanese stamps". So I believe that this was an early packet, or promotional album page sold by a German dealer. Probably 1890s or thereabouts. It's lovely -- and completely in keeping with the idea of a Clothesline Exhibit.
Roy
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Tanganyika set of stamps of 1922-25 Giraffes
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Stamps of Unusual Materials
This exhibit highlights some stamps produced on unusual materials or with unusual materials incorporated into the designs.
Bermuda - 2005
200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar
Original wood from HMS Victory, obtained when the ship was refurbished, is embedded in the mast, hull, and spars, on this stamp.
Austria - 2008
UEFA Soccer Tournament
This stamp is made from the same urethane material of which the soccer ball used in the tournament was made.
Portugal - 2007
Cork Production
Portugal issued this stamp made from cork, to publicize that country’s position as the world’s major cork producer.
Gibraltar - 2002
The Rock of Gibraltar
Pulverized limestone from the iconic landmark is embedded into the white areas of the Rock on these stamps.
Switzerland - 2004
Wooden Stamp
and
Switzerland - 2000
Embroidered cloth stamp
Swiss industry comprises more than just precision watches and fine chocolate. A stamp made of wood calls attention to Switzerland’s timber industry, while an embroidered cloth stamp publicizes the historic importance of St. Gallen Spitzen, as the embroidery is called, created in the canton of St. Gallen.
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
This is a non-competitive display (obviously, I don't want to win my own gift certificate!). "Likes" will be appreciated, but won't be counted in the final results.
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
I'd like to present an album page featuring two stamps from Canada's War Issue, showing the Ram Tank It's one of my early efforts to create my own pages, and the image of the tank, or rather its incarnation as an armoured personnel carrier, is the very first image I ever obtained on-line, before I even had a computer capable of displaying images, much less a printer capable of printing them. I went to a local computer store and asked one of the owners (it was operated by two brothers) if he would mind searching for an image for me. As I recall, it was the only one available at that time.
The Ram tank proved to be less than capable of competing against German armour, and when Canadian armoured units went into battle on D-Day, they were driving Sherman tanks.
In downtown Vancouver there's a Ram tank in front of the Beatty Street Armoury, the home of The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own), an armoured reconnaissance reserve regiment, the oldest military unit in Vancouver, and the most senior militia in the province. Here a photo of the tank that I took several years ago:
A couple of years ago I walked past the armoury again and was saddened to see that the tank had been defaced by graffiti.
Bob
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Here's one from my watermill file
jopie
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
This is a page from my Apollo-Soyuz Test Project collection that I exhibit. Cover is autographed by both the Russian and American prime crews.
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Beautiful exhibits, one and all!
I finished this up this morning. It's my first attempt at creating my own pages. I used PowerPoint, which was also a first. My goal was to create an attractive page, but keep it modest, don't over crowd it and let the stamps be the main focus.
I'll be typing up and printing a full history of King Peter I to accompany this front page.
WB
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Roy, this is a great contest! I wish my work schedule would have let me enter this one. Maybe next time.
The idea of a one-page collection is fascinating, and one that I have been pursuing off-and-on for many years. For those of us who are a bit ADD and can't stop finding new areas to collect, the one page is sometimes as far as we get!
BTW, I went to "like" my favorites, and found that I had already liked most of them earlier, as they were being uploaded. If others did the same, that will probably favor the early up-loaders slightly?
-Steve
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Terrific idea...Although I can`t post a picture of any of my pages I enjoy seeing how and what others collect! Thankyou Roy
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Thank you, Roy. And many thanks to all the members of Stamporama.
Ted
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Congratulations to youpiao and yes, we should definitely do it again. Thanks for a great idea and learning experience Roy.
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Congrats, Ted! You are number 1!!!! Awesome.
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Thank you, Carol; thank you, Luree.
Ted
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
All I can say is ...
Exonumia!
(remember, Ted?)
Well done indeed. Good competition Roy!
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Exonumia!
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Ted that was a very nice page.
Roy I enjoyed seeing others pages.
Doug
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
You set the bar high, youpiao! That's a well executed and interesting exhibit! Congrats on a solid win!
WB
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Congratulations and thank you to everyone who participated. It sure was fun to look at all the exhibits.
Hope we do this again.
Mark
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Thank you, Doug, WB, and Mark.
Ted
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Congratulations Ted, great exhibit and thanks to you also Roy, for the Clothesline Exhibit #1. We'll look forward to more.
Mike
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Thank you, Mike.
Ted
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Congrats, Ted! Very well done!
So glad your hiatus is over! We are all the better for it!
-- Dave
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Shucks, Dave. Thanks.
Ted
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Congratulations, Ted!
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Thank you, Michael.
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Ted, congratulations! That is a very nice and informative
exhibit, I enjoyed it. I have the Swiss embroidery stamps and an Austrian embroidered Edelweis flower stamp, a chocholate stamp but I never saw the stamps- cork, stone, wood- that you showed! Thank you.
Jopie
re: Stamporama "Clothesline Exhibit" Competition #1
Thank you, Jopie.