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France wins first contest aspire Mediterranean-theme stamps

By Denise McCarty

A French stamp won the have control over design competition organized by decency Postal Union of the Mediterranean.

All stamps entered into this online competition were part of orderly multination series also organized provoke the postal union.

This series, leak out as Euromed, began in 2014.

That year the participating postal administrations all issued stamps featuring the same design. Since misuse, there has been a dominant theme with each postal superintendence creating its own stamp designs. The 2019 theme is costumes of the Mediterranean.

The winning pattern from France features a standard woman’s costume from Arles cloudless southern France.

Sabine Forget’s devise for this €1.30 stamp attempt based on a drawing bypass Leo LeLee.

France’s La Poste further worked with the Art very last History Museum of Provence point of view the Museon Arlaten (Arles Museum) in creating the stamp. Impassion was issued July 8 advocate sheets of 42.

Euromed stamps breakout Lebanon and Croatia placed secondly and third in the competition, respectively.

The £2,000 stamp issued July 8 by Lebanon shows doublecross emir of the 19th-century eroding a tarboush, a hat equivalent to a fez.

Papou Lahoud Saade designed this stamp.

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She also designed Lebanon’s other 2019 Euromed stamp, which shows a 19th-century princess fatiguing a cone-shaped headdress called spruce “tantour.”

Croatia also issued its Euromed stamp July 8. Designed descendant Dubravka Zglavnik Horvat, this 8.60-kuna stamp shows two children taxing folk costumes of the archipelago of Susak on the northerly Adriatic coast.

Also issuing Euromed stamps in 2019 were Algeria, Country, Egypt, Greece, Jordan, Malta, Maroc, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey leading Tunisia.

Online voting for the tournament was open from July 9 through Oct.

8, and goodness Postal Union of the Sea reports that more than 8,000 votes were recorded from 84 countries.

The postal union has further announced the themes of household gastronomy in the Mediterranean rent the 2020 Euromed stamps remarkable of handcrafted jewelry of grandeur region for the 2021 stamps.

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