Postage Stamp Day

TN 819

TN 789

TN 760

Events

This stamp commemorates Postage Stamp Day by highlighting the stamp as a cultural object, vector of communication and medium of artistic creation. The illustration combines a hand holding a pair of pliers, a stylized stamp and an open book, emphasizing both the philatelic gesture, the transmission of knowledge and the educational value of the stamp. The fluid and colorful composition evokes the circulation of ideas, memory and the link between writing, reading and correspondence. In the Tunisian context, this stamp affirms the role of the post office as a cultural as well as functional institution, and promotes the stamp as a tool for education, dissemination of heritage and construction of a shared national identity.

22x38 mm

Polychrome

Hatem El Mekki

13 x 12½

Photogravure

0,65 DT

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1 000 000 exemplaires