Music, the Mail, and Ephemera

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Szykneij

Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on June 11, 2021, 09:54:05 AM
I don't know much about stamps.  I'm trying to figure out when they were mailed and where they were stamped.  I noticed that they were cancelled in both Czech and German.

PD

The stamps were cancelled on a folder by the postal service at a stamp exhibition in Turnov in 1941. It doesn't look like they're first day cancels because the stamps were issued that year on October 6. It's wasn't (and still isn't) unusual for stamps to receive first day, commemorative, or show cancels without actually passing through the mail for the benefit of collectors.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
June 12, 2006
György Ligeti dies at 83 at Vienna. Born 1923 in Transylvania, Romania, he lived in Hungary before emigrating to Austria in 1956.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Pohjolas Daughter

Quote from: Szykneij on June 11, 2021, 11:43:58 AM
The stamps were cancelled on a folder by the postal service at a stamp exhibition in Turnov in 1941. It doesn't look like they're first day cancels because the stamps were issued that year on October 6. It's wasn't (and still isn't) unusual for stamps to receive first day, commemorative, or show cancels without actually passing through the mail for the benefit of collectors.
Thank you for the info.

I did a bit of further digging and found this:  https://www.stamp-collecting-world.com/bohemiaandmoravia_1939.html

Interesting to find out (and very sad to read) that the first stamps were overprinted.  What beautiful engravings the original ones were!

PD
Pohjolas Daughter

Szykneij

Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on June 12, 2021, 05:33:27 AM
Thank you for the info.

I did a bit of further digging and found this:  https://www.stamp-collecting-world.com/bohemiaandmoravia_1939.html

Interesting to find out (and very sad to read) that the first stamps were overprinted.  What beautiful engravings the original ones were!

PD

Overprinting stamps is not unusual. Sometimes it's done to commemorate an event, validate stamps for use in other locales, or (frequently) to surcharge the denominations in response to a change in postal rates.

The ad below is from an old stamp company circular. "Lost Nation", "Vanished Land", or other similar descriptions are used to designate stamp-issuing entities that no longer exist as such. Catalogs list Bohemia & Moravia as a "protectorate", but the term in the ad is in quotations because the occupation was brutal.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

   *The Week in Music History*
   
     June 13, 1854
   Anthony Faas, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, patents the first US accordion, having made improvements to the keyboard, and enhancing the sound.

   June 14, 1881
   Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

   June 15, 1843
    Edvard Grieg born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1907)

   June 16, 1961
   Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West at Le Bourget Airport in Paris

   June 17, 1818
        Charles Gounod born in Paris, France (d. 1893)

   June 17, 1882
        Igor Stravinsky, born in Oranienbaum, Russia (d. 1971) [OS 5th June]

   June 18, 1723
        Giuseppe Scarlatti born in Naples (d. 1777)

   June 19, 1825
        Gioachino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims" premieres

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
June 20, 1819
Jacques Offenbach, German-French composer, born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1880)

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
June 21, 1908
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov dies at 64 (June 8 old style date)


Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
June 22, 1942
European broadcast première of Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony in London conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood and the London Philharmonic Orchestra


Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
June 23, 1902
Monument to Gioachino Rossini unveiled in Santa Croce, Florence
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music history*
June 24, 1880
First performance of "O Canada," the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
June 25, 1910
Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird" premieres at the Opéra de Paris, Paris


Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
June 26,1912
Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna


Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Pohjolas Daughter

Quote from: Szykneij on June 25, 2021, 03:37:08 AM
*This Day in Music History*
June 25, 1910
Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird" premieres at the Opéra de Paris, Paris

Those are all lovely stamps!  Particularly like the (what I'm guessing is) Russian one.
Pohjolas Daughter

Szykneij

Quote from: Pohjolas Daughter on June 26, 2021, 04:20:23 AM
Those are all lovely stamps!  Particularly like the (what I'm guessing is) Russian one.

Yes, it's a 1985 Russian stamp celebrating the 115th Birth Anniversary of Firebird choreographer Michel Fokin.

Russia also issued this "Firebird" stamp in 1976.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

MusicTurner

That 1976 one might perhaps be dealing with the Russian folklore Firebird legend, rather than Stravinsky's work on it.

Szykneij

Quote from: MusicTurner on June 26, 2021, 12:05:19 PM
That 1976 one might perhaps be dealing with the Russian folklore Firebird legend, rather than Stravinsky's work on it.

Yes, it's from a set of stamps featuring paintings by Russian artists. It depicts "Firebird" by A.V. Kotuhin.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Szykneij

*This Day in Music History*
June 27, 1959
"West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 performances

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige

Karl Henning

Quote from: Szykneij on June 27, 2021, 03:20:31 AM
*This Day in Music History*
June 27, 1959
"West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 performances



Womb to tomb ....
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

steve ridgway

Quote from: Szykneij on June 27, 2021, 03:20:31 AM
*This Day in Music History*
June 27, 1959
"West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 performances


Er, isn't it illegal to dance down the street like that in The Gambia? :o

Szykneij

Quote from: steve ridgway on June 27, 2021, 06:22:30 AM
Er, isn't it illegal to dance down the street like that in The Gambia? :o

Don't think so ...
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. ~ Satchel Paige