Book History in Postage Stamps

Stepan tutorial, bookbinding, book binding, instructional, Russia, Romania, France, Germany, stamps, postal stamps, postage stamps 9 Comments March 24, 2017

During my stay in Romania this January I’ve started to make a short video about the first Romanian printed book. It is pretty hard to find any illustrations or photos that are allowed to be used in a blog post (due to copyright limitations and stuff). That’s why I’ve decided to check some alternative sources. I visited a couple of state-owned stamp dealers in Bucharest and was lucky to buy one of the stamps dedicated to the 500^th anniversary of the first printed book.

Right before returning to Moscow I’ve ordered some more Romanian stamps at eBay. A couple more a bit later. Some Russian stamps in March. Now I plan to gradually grow my small collection of postage stamps dedicated to books and book history.

France 2256 – Bookbinding – La Reliure

Germany 723 – 1954 15th Century Painter Gutenberg’s 42 Line Bible Issue VF

Romania M6317 – 2008 Printing Press, Orthodox Missal, Macarius, Liturgy Book – Tab

Russia Sc.7215 – 2010 Ivan Fyodorov Father of Slavonic Printing Sc.7215

Some more first day issue post cards and envelopes with stamps:

France 2256 – Bookbinding – La Reliure – First Day Cover

Romania M6317 – 2008 Printing Press, Orthodox Missal, Macarius, Liturgy Book – First Day Cover

Romania M6317 – 2008 Printing Press, Orthodox Missal, Macarius, Liturgy Book – First Day Postcard – Front

Peter Verheyen had a similar post several years ago. There are three stamps mentioned there (one of them I already have in my collection): http://pressbengel.blogspot.ru/2012/03/bookbinding-postage-stamps.html. I’m curious if his collection has grown since.

Another link I’d like to share with you today is this discussion at Stamp Community: http://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14839. There are eleven pages of posts with book-related stamps from all over the world.

Are there any book-themed stamps in your collection? Or you prefer to collect some other book-related things?

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