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Some stamps

Filed under: Uncategorized November 26, 2006 @ 5:51 pm

Stamp sheet 1

Stamp Sheet 2

These are from my collection, a variety of Lutheran/Reformation-themed stamps from around the world.  If you click on a page, it will come up in its own window and you can get some really good zoom-in detail.  Check out especially that first stamp with the cover page illustration from the original Luther Bible.

3 Comments »

  1. Kelly:

    Quick comment on the Denmark stamp on the second page: Denmark officially caught on to the Lutheran Reformation in the 1500s, and I think that particular stamp is regarding a certain unrelated, Reformed church body.

  2. Neville:

    Kelly
    You may be aware that South Africa released two stamps in 1967 on the Reformation and Luther.

    Thanks for the display, this will help me in expanding my own.

  3. Confessional Lutheran Ecclesiastical Art Resources » Blog Archive » Lutheran? Want to scrapbook or papercraft for Christian occasions?:

    [...] More ideas for papercrafting and scrapbooking:  try some of Dover’s fine art stickers, such as Angels in Art.  Or purchase some inexpensive, used stamps with Christmas or other Christian themes in fine art.  (In fact, you can get quite a few with Reformation images, even, depending on which stamp-collecting place you run across.)  Also, those cheap paper “holy cards” available at many Catholic bookstores are great for paper crafting.  You can get a number of traditional icon images, images of just Jesus, or other biblical scenes.  Some are even highlighted with gold. [...]

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