Igor Smelyansky, the Ukrainian post service’s director general, told the New York Times he was happy to be trolling Russia with the power of stamps. Supplies of the stamp are limited, but the Ukrainian post office is also selling mugs and T-Shirts bearing Groh’s painting. Some eBay listings for an individual stamp are as high as $30, with sets going for as much as $400. Ukraine is selling the stamps for their face value-about $1 a piece. The remaining 100,000 were sold online and they’ve already become collector’s items. Of the remaining 300,000 stamps in circulation, 200,000 are being held back for sale in territories currently controlled by Russia. “This phrase-the answer of Ukrainian border guards, defenders of Snake Island, to the Russian ship on the offer to surrender on the day of the invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine on February 24 has become a symbol of courage and indomitable spirit of the Ukrainian people in the fight against Russia,” a press release about the stamp said. People are limited to purchasing 16 copies and are lining up around the block and waiting in hours-long lines to purchase their set. The Ukrainian postal service issued 1 million of these stamps and is selling 700,000 of them in Ukraine. The next day, the Moskva sank after being struck by a Neptune anti-ship missile fired by Ukraine. The Ukrainian post office turned the painting into a stamp and issued the first run of them on April 13. Boris Groh’s painting of a Ukrainian soldier flipping the bird to a distant Moskva won after being put to a vote on Instagram and Facebook. On March 1, the Ukrainian postal service announced a competition to design a stamp based on the phrase. You chasin’?) 1.“Russian warship, go fuck yourself,” turned into a popular phrase moments after the Ukrainian Roman Hrybov transmitted it to the Moskva. (Yeah, you heard right, I deal on the street. Russian Stamp Collection Condition: - Price: US 160. Word on the street is that it was considered potentially too confronting for the flag-planting Cook fans. It was hard to find in post offices, and marketed mainly to collectors as a novelty. These stamps should have been handed out over the counter to start conversations, but sadly, the issue was kept very low-key. It was a mature and intelligent treatment of a sensitive topic they knocked the brief out of the park.
Each stamp’s value is split between its two halves, giving the stories equal worth. Each stamp’s theme – Botany, for example – is told from within the narratives of both Aboriginal culture and the Endeavour voyage. Co-designed by Aboriginal Australian Jenna Lee and first-generation Australian Niqui Branchu, it replaces “discovery” with “encounter”. Well, the 250th anniversary brought us this miniature sheet, comprising five extra-long stamps. The 1970 bicentenary of James Cook’s arrival was predictably marked by white men raising flags and “discovering” things. Most collectors of “’Roos” don’t know its dirty secret, which has been brushed under the carpet and buried in the archives of Hansard. You’re off the list! This is not a great start. Sorry, republican kangaroo, but somewhat appropriately, I can’t let you in because of your background. Defiantly Australian in a time of king and empire, this humble stamp represents nothing less than the first shot in the revolution.īut wait – what’s this? Some evidence suggests that the continent’s white colour may have been deliberately chosen in line with government policy. Most scandalously, WHERE WAS THE MONARCH? Of course, he was 10,000 miles away, unlike this kangaroo. Maps were almost unheard of on stamps the hero kangaroo was “a grotesque and ridiculous symbol,” cried the Argus. Our first postage stamp was stunningly modern in its day, and widely mocked. Photograph: Australia Post/Punk Philatelist
Australia’s first postage stamp: a kangaroo the size of the country.
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