Sunday Stamps: Women

“Women” is the theme for today’s Sunday Stamps.

-Great Britain – 1999 Suffragette behind Prison Windows (Equal Rights for Women)

-Bulgaria – 1982 “Women” International Children’s Assembly “Banner of Peace”

Marianne is a female allegory of liberty and the French republic. The character originated in 1775 when a French artist painted her as a symbol of liberty. After the French Revolution in 1792, Marianne became a popular symbol of the new republic. Her characteristics include a red cap, the tricolour, and a cockade.Marianne is a symbol of unity and holds a place of honor in French law courts and town halls.

Spain – 2020 International Year of Nurses and Midwives

Germany – 2024 Elisabeth von Thadden. -Series: Women in Resistance against National Socialism”.
Elisabeth Adelheid Hildegard von Thadden was a German progressive educator and a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime as a member of the Solf Circle. She was sentenced to death for conspiring to commit high treason and undermining the fighting forces.

China – 2016 Women’s Volleyball – Summer Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro.

India – 2015 Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbuakshmi was an Indian Carnatic singer. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna – India’s highest civilian honor, the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award in 1974 and the first Indian to perform at the United Nations General Assembly in 1966.

Russia – 2015 Portrait of N.P. Zhdanovich at the Harpsichord, by painter P.A. Fedotov.

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Lots of different styles and women here! Some of the stamps are new to me. The Bulgarian one has an interesting and cheeful design.

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What a great selection of women on stamps! The last one from Russia stood out to me. I looked her up to learn more about her. That’s what stamps do, make you curious!

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