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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 green, violet and dark blue | |
| 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. OLOMOUC 1827 The bells from the dome of St Wenceslas Church in Olomouc - the bell Wenceslas and the bell Peter and Paul. Both are a work made in 1827 by the German bell-founder Seltenhofer. These two bells represent the level of bell-founding in Moravia in the late 18th and early 19th century. |
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| Catalogue No.: | 0446 | |
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