WINDMILL
COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP
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TECHNICAL MONUMENTS - MILLS WINDMILL |
COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP |
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| Date of issue: | 9. 10. 2001 | |
| Face value: | 9,- CZK | |
| Graphic Artist: | Vladimír Suchánek | |
| Engraver: | Miloš Ondráček | |
| Size of the stamp: | 23 x 30 mm | |
| Printing sheets: | 50 stamps | |
| Method of printing: | rotary recess print in black combined with photogravure in yellow, red, blue and grey | |
| Subject of the stamps: | A Dutch-style stone windmill stands in Kuželov (Hodnotín district). The conical stone structure supports a rotating shingle roof in the shape of an eighteen-sided pyramid. The original machinery of the mill takes up three floors. The Kuželov mill was built in 1842. Grain was ground there until the end of the First World War, and in 1946 the mill stopped work altogether. The technical museum in Brno had it restored in 1973. | |
| Catalogue No.: | 0306 | |
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