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HANDICRAFT RELICS - BELLS |
COMMEMORATIVE POSTAGE STAMP |
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| Date of issue: | 7. 9. 2005 | |
| Face value: | 9 CZK | |
| Printing sheets: | 50 stamps | |
| Size of the stamp: | 23 x 40 mm | |
| Graphic Artist: | Jan Kavan | |
| Engraver: | Rudolf Cigánik | |
| Method of printing: | rotary recess print in black combined with photogravure in light green and dark green | |
| Subject of the stamp: | The voices of bells have accompanied our everyday life for almost five thousand years. Even though they are almost hidden from our sight, they measure our time, announce the arrival of holidays, sound the alarm, invite for prayers, accompany us also on our last way. Their voice did not change throughout the thousands of years, it still evokes the same emotions in us as it did in our predecessors. The shape of bells did not change either, nor did the old craft of bell-founding. Bells are founded of bronze in the same way as they used to be. A bell sounds with many different, unevenly sonorous tones which have to chime in harmoniously. In addition to the musical aspect bells have also an important artistic aspect; they bear inscriptions and plastic decorations of artistic value. DOBRŠ 1561, 1596 Two of the set of valuable renaissance bells from 1561 and 1596. They hang in the little romanesque church of St John and St Paul in Dobrš nearby Stachy in the Šumava Region. The author of both is Brikcí of Cimperk, a representative together with Tomáš Jaroš and Vavřinec Křička of Bítyška of the top level of bell-founding. These bells document the most famous period of the craft of bell-founding in Bohemia. |
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| Catalogue No.: | 0445 | |
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