Postage Stamp Day

TN 818

TN 788

TN 759

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.

38x22 mm

Polychrome

Hatem El Mekki

12½ x 13

Photogravure

0,10 DT

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1 000 000 exemplaires