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Czechoslovakia First Republic 1918-1939

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Czechoslovakia

First Republic1918-1939

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The Hradčany Designs1918-1920

The Captioned DesignThe words Česko and Slovenská appear in the side panels

Initial PhaseWhite lettering on a coloured panel

Imperforate

Perforated

Perforated

Final PhaseColoured lettering on a white panel

Imperforate

Type I Type II

Type I Type II

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The Circles DesignTwo circles appear in each side panel

Initial PhaseSun in the sky, white foreground bushes

Imperforate

The Hradčany Designs1918-1920

Final PhaseNo sun, hatching in the foreground bushes

Perforated

Perforated

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The Abstract DesignAn abstract decoration in each side panel

Initial PhaseStamp the same size as previous designs

Imperforate

The Hradčany Designs1918-1920

Final PhaseSlightly larger stamp

Officially only issued perforated

Perforated

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Airmail1919

Postage Due1919

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Newspaper Issue1918-1939

Surcharged1925

Printed Matter1934

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Postage Due1919

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Postage Due1924

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Express Stamps1919

Overprinted for Newspaper Service1926

Jubilee and Charity Issue1919

Type I Type II

Type I Type II

Masaryk’s 70th Birthday1920

Type I Type II

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Red Cross1920

Allegory Issues1920

Husita

Dove

Type I Type IType II Type II

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Allegory Issues1920

Liberated Republic

Postage Due1927

Type I Type II Type III

Type I Type II Type III

Type I Type II

Type I Type II Type I Type II Type III

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Allegory Issues1920

Agriculture and Science

Type I Type II

Postage Due1926

Airmail Service1922

Type I Type II

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Allegory Issues1923

Agriculture and Science

Type I

Type II

Type III

Type I Type II Type III

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Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the RepublicGum embossed with the monogram of the Czechoslovak Postal Service

On watermarked paper

1923

OverprintedEighth Sokol Games in Prague

1926

OverprintedMeeting of the Olympic Congress in Prague

1925

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President T G Masaryk’s 75th BirthdayPhotogravure

On watermarked paper

1925

Comb perforated 13¾ × 13½Ordinary white paper

Translucent greyish paper

Line perforated 13¾

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President T G Masaryk’s 75th BirthdayEngraved

On watermarked paper

1925

Large FormatType I A: 19.2 × 23 mm

Type I B: 19.8 × 22.4 mm

Type IISmall Format

18.7 × 21.4 mm; line perforated 13¾ Type III

19.2 × 22 mm; line perforated 9¾Type IV Type V Type VI Type VII

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President T G Masaryk’s 75th BirthdayModified Design

1926

Watermarked Unwatermarked

Type IWatermarked

Coil

Coil

Type IIWatermarked

Unwatermarked

Type I Type II

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Castles, Landscapes, and Towns1926

On watermarked paper

Karlštejn

Coil

Strahov

Coil

Karlštejn Prague

Unwatermarked

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Prague and the High Tatra Mountains1926

Watermarked

Blue Ultramarine

Type I Type II

Unwatermarked

Blue Type II

Type I Type II

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1928 Postage Due Issue1928

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Tenth Anniversary of the Founding of Czechoslovakia1928

Castles and Towns1929

Red-brown Brown

Red-violet Blue-violet

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Millennium of the Death of St Wenceslas1929

National Coat of Arms1929

Brown Yellow-brown Coil

Type 1 Type II

BrownRed-brown

Type IISlanted lines break up the grid

Type IHorizontal lines break up the grid

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Small Portraits1930-1939

1935J Á Komenský E Beneš

Comb perf. 9¾ Line perf. 12½

1938 19391935M R Štefánik

T G Masaryk

Type I Type II

1930

Coil

1937

T G Masaryk E Beneš

Type I No line Type II Line Type I Blank Type II Lined

Antonín Dvořak1934

Bedřich Smetana1933

Miroslav Tyrš1933

InternationalLabour BureauMeeting 1937 1939

T G Masaryk1935

Česko­SlovenskoČeskoslovenskoType I Type II

E Beneš1933

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Castles1932

100th Anniversary of the Birth of Miroslav Tyrš1932

President T G Masaryk’s 80th Birthday1930

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Nitra1933

Twentieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Czech Legion1934

Centenary of the Czechoslovak National Anthem1934

Line perforated 9¾

Thick Paper

Line perforated 13¼ × 13

Thin Paper

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T G Masaryk’s 85th Birthday1935

T. G. Masaryk’s Death1937

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Twentieth Anniversary of the Battle of Arras1935

For Children1936

1050th Anniversary of the Death of St Methodius1935

100th Anniversary of the Death of K H Máchy1936

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Castles, Landscapes, and Towns1936

International Labour Bureau Meeting in Prague1937

Opening of the Slovak Parliament1939

Type I Type II

Type I Type II

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Castles, Landscapes, and Towns1936

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Little Entente1937

For Children1937

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Twentieth Anniversary of the Battle of Zorbov1937

150th Anniversary of the Birth of J E Purkyně1937

1937 Newspaper Issue1 May 1937 – 15 December 1939

Personal Delivery Stamps1937

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Bratislava Postal Exhibition1937

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Bratislava Postal Exhibition1937

For Children1938

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Winter Sokol Games Festival1938

Tenth International Sokol Games in Prague1938

Twentieth AnniversaryThe Battles of Bachmac, Vouziers, and Dos Alto

1938

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Prague World Postal Exhibition1938

Twentieth Anniversary of the First Czechoslovak Stamp1938

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Provincial Economic Council Meeting in Pilsen and Košice1938

Inauguration of the Carpatho-Ukraine Diet1939

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