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don't have my catalogue, but it's a Yugoslav semipostal
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Thank you, gentlemen. The stamp is one of my growing “military-medical†collection of stamps, postcards, and covers. My initial goal was to collect stamps showing combat medics and corpsmen at work. I’ve found fewer than 10, and the images of some are ambiguous, possibly showing civilian Red Cross workers.
Here are four: Italy (the earliest such issue?), North Korea, Slovakia, and Belgium:
The North Korean stamp is interesting:
It clearly shows a female medic at work:
As far as I know, Great Britain, the U.S. and Canada have never issued a stamp showing a medic or corpsman at work incombat. A stamp in the U.S. series commemorating the five decades since the Second World War shows a female medic treating a wounded soldier:
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Bob:
A very nice assembly for a personalized collection.
I've posted a memo on my stamp board to keep an eye out for medic/corpsman/field nurse stamps for you.
John Derry
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Hi Bob,
The Yugoslav stamp was issued by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes before it adopted the name "Yugoslavia" hence the long country name at the top and bottom in Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.
It shows the "Kosovo Maiden" searching the battlefield for her dead fiancé and hearing from his dying comrade that he has been killed.
The following link give the story and shows the original painting that was used for this design:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Maiden.
Do you know the story of the ANZAC stretcherbearer John Simpson Kirkpatrick who helped save many soldiers at Gallipoli with his donkey? A statue of him and his donkey appears on a set of three Australian stamps from 1965.
Here's a link showing a photograph of Simpson and his donkey:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_with_the_donkey
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Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Norfolk Island and Papua New Guinea all issued a single stamp using the same design of Simpson and his Donkey as used in the Australian set (in 1965).
You can see the stamps here:
http://predecimal.nf/anzac.htm
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Bob,
Florence Nightingale features on a ton of stamps, there is one on GB that depicts her working bedside.
Alyn
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The Red 10para is a part of a three stamp set issued in 1921, printed by the American bank note Company.
The stamps were sold for double the face value with the profits to go to a disabled soldiers fund.
10p Red "helping the wounded" on battlefield in Kosovo
15p Sepia "An exhausted soldier" more or less on his knees.
25p Light blue Allegory of "Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia raising the crown"
Then in 1938 a similar stamp with only the central motif titled "Maiden of Kosovo" from a painting by Jovanovic; (The classic frame and letters removed.)
50para Blue, red, yellow and green Sept 17, 1938
Same image;
Red cross Postal tax stamp;
50para gray blue and red Sept. 12th, 1940
" .... Paja Jovanovic (Paul Joanovitch) was a renowned Serbian painter, exponent of academic realism. He was born in Vrsac in 1859. He learned painting skills in Vienna Academy of Art. He spent most of his life between Belgrade and Vienna. He painted portraits (amongst numerous portraits he made were portraits of Austrian emperor Franz Joseph, Montenegrin king Nikola, Aleksandar Karadjordjevic and president of Yugoslavia Tito), genre scenes with national motifs and large historical compositions with themes from national history. He is probably the most famous Serbian artist of international significance, and his works are frequently being sold in auctions worldwide. ...."
(http://www.arte.rs/en/umetnici/paja_jovanovic-3/)
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Thanks to all for your interesting responses stemming from my original post. I’ve learned a lot.
I have already included some Red Cross stamps in my collection, and no doubt will obtain more. It’s hard to imagine, but before the 1860s there was virtually no organized system of care for wounded soldiers. Wounds that today would require no more than bandaging or possibly debridement and suturing were often fatal; if a wounded soldier didn’t bleed to death in the absence of first aid, his chances of dying from infection were excellent, even if he did manage to be hospitalized. The Civil War saw a great increase in the number of soldiers who suffered amputations either in battle or later in primitive field hospitals. Few of them survived.
Only when battlefield first aid became common, along with better transportation to hospitals, better understanding of sepsis and pain, the development of blood plasma, and the introduction of effective antibiotics, did survival rates begin to climb to “acceptable†levels.
I myself benefitted from all of these developments. When I was shot through my right thigh by a North Vietnamese soldier in 1966, a Navy hospital corpsman was at my side within minutes. Within an hour I was splinted and properly bandaged at a well-equipped field hospital. Within two hours (approximately), I was on the U.S.S. Repose hospital ship, where I was operated on, given two units of blood, and wrapped in plaster. Less than a week later, I had a bed in the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego. I also had a raging infection in my wound, which was successfully controlled with antibiotics. A skin graft and 111 days in traction put me back on my feet, and less than a year after being shot I was able to walk down the aisle with my bride. I limped quite badly, but all I needed was time to rebuild muscle tissue. How different my life might have been had I been wounded at, say, the Battle of Bull Run than the battle for Hill 50 in South Vietnam.
To get back to stamps, virtually all of the developments of military medicine have been chronicled to some extent in stamps and covers. But I was unaware of Simpson and His Donkey. And so a new search begins!
Bob
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The story of Florence Nightingale's struggle to get approval for basic First Aid for the troops of the Crimean War is truly a horror story. Military leaders simply didn't understand the benefits at first. And as we all know eventually the Red Cross was the result.
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I think I need to work on my Cyrillic. Can someone tell me where this stamp is from?
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Bob
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don't have my catalogue, but it's a Yugoslav semipostal
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Thank you, gentlemen. The stamp is one of my growing “military-medical†collection of stamps, postcards, and covers. My initial goal was to collect stamps showing combat medics and corpsmen at work. I’ve found fewer than 10, and the images of some are ambiguous, possibly showing civilian Red Cross workers.
Here are four: Italy (the earliest such issue?), North Korea, Slovakia, and Belgium:
The North Korean stamp is interesting:
It clearly shows a female medic at work:
As far as I know, Great Britain, the U.S. and Canada have never issued a stamp showing a medic or corpsman at work incombat. A stamp in the U.S. series commemorating the five decades since the Second World War shows a female medic treating a wounded soldier:
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03 Feb 2013
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Bob:
A very nice assembly for a personalized collection.
I've posted a memo on my stamp board to keep an eye out for medic/corpsman/field nurse stamps for you.
John Derry
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Hi Bob,
The Yugoslav stamp was issued by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes before it adopted the name "Yugoslavia" hence the long country name at the top and bottom in Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.
It shows the "Kosovo Maiden" searching the battlefield for her dead fiancé and hearing from his dying comrade that he has been killed.
The following link give the story and shows the original painting that was used for this design:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_Maiden.
Do you know the story of the ANZAC stretcherbearer John Simpson Kirkpatrick who helped save many soldiers at Gallipoli with his donkey? A statue of him and his donkey appears on a set of three Australian stamps from 1965.
Here's a link showing a photograph of Simpson and his donkey:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_with_the_donkey
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Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Norfolk Island and Papua New Guinea all issued a single stamp using the same design of Simpson and his Donkey as used in the Australian set (in 1965).
You can see the stamps here:
http://predecimal.nf/anzac.htm
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04 Feb 2013
08:10:15am
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Bob,
Florence Nightingale features on a ton of stamps, there is one on GB that depicts her working bedside.
Alyn
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
04 Feb 2013
08:51:05pm
re: Military-medical stamps
The Red 10para is a part of a three stamp set issued in 1921, printed by the American bank note Company.
The stamps were sold for double the face value with the profits to go to a disabled soldiers fund.
10p Red "helping the wounded" on battlefield in Kosovo
15p Sepia "An exhausted soldier" more or less on his knees.
25p Light blue Allegory of "Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia raising the crown"
Then in 1938 a similar stamp with only the central motif titled "Maiden of Kosovo" from a painting by Jovanovic; (The classic frame and letters removed.)
50para Blue, red, yellow and green Sept 17, 1938
Same image;
Red cross Postal tax stamp;
50para gray blue and red Sept. 12th, 1940
" .... Paja Jovanovic (Paul Joanovitch) was a renowned Serbian painter, exponent of academic realism. He was born in Vrsac in 1859. He learned painting skills in Vienna Academy of Art. He spent most of his life between Belgrade and Vienna. He painted portraits (amongst numerous portraits he made were portraits of Austrian emperor Franz Joseph, Montenegrin king Nikola, Aleksandar Karadjordjevic and president of Yugoslavia Tito), genre scenes with national motifs and large historical compositions with themes from national history. He is probably the most famous Serbian artist of international significance, and his works are frequently being sold in auctions worldwide. ...."
(http://www.arte.rs/en/umetnici/paja_jovanovic-3/)
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re: Military-medical stamps
Thanks to all for your interesting responses stemming from my original post. I’ve learned a lot.
I have already included some Red Cross stamps in my collection, and no doubt will obtain more. It’s hard to imagine, but before the 1860s there was virtually no organized system of care for wounded soldiers. Wounds that today would require no more than bandaging or possibly debridement and suturing were often fatal; if a wounded soldier didn’t bleed to death in the absence of first aid, his chances of dying from infection were excellent, even if he did manage to be hospitalized. The Civil War saw a great increase in the number of soldiers who suffered amputations either in battle or later in primitive field hospitals. Few of them survived.
Only when battlefield first aid became common, along with better transportation to hospitals, better understanding of sepsis and pain, the development of blood plasma, and the introduction of effective antibiotics, did survival rates begin to climb to “acceptable†levels.
I myself benefitted from all of these developments. When I was shot through my right thigh by a North Vietnamese soldier in 1966, a Navy hospital corpsman was at my side within minutes. Within an hour I was splinted and properly bandaged at a well-equipped field hospital. Within two hours (approximately), I was on the U.S.S. Repose hospital ship, where I was operated on, given two units of blood, and wrapped in plaster. Less than a week later, I had a bed in the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego. I also had a raging infection in my wound, which was successfully controlled with antibiotics. A skin graft and 111 days in traction put me back on my feet, and less than a year after being shot I was able to walk down the aisle with my bride. I limped quite badly, but all I needed was time to rebuild muscle tissue. How different my life might have been had I been wounded at, say, the Battle of Bull Run than the battle for Hill 50 in South Vietnam.
To get back to stamps, virtually all of the developments of military medicine have been chronicled to some extent in stamps and covers. But I was unaware of Simpson and His Donkey. And so a new search begins!
Bob
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
06 Feb 2013
12:09:48pm
re: Military-medical stamps
The story of Florence Nightingale's struggle to get approval for basic First Aid for the troops of the Crimean War is truly a horror story. Military leaders simply didn't understand the benefits at first. And as we all know eventually the Red Cross was the result.
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