Category - Sight
Subcategory - Crypto Stamp / Stamps with QR code
Happy New Year to all my subscribers. Wish 2021 gets better for all of us. Hope is the driver of all for the better. December 2020 was a dud for me as a collector with all my mails backlogged and now slowly trickling in 2021 and no posts to show for December 2020.
Here's my first post for the year..
Croatia 2020 Crypto Stamp 2 - History of Mail Transport
A Copy from the net due to privacy of each individual stamp
Issue date 15 December 2020
With the success of the first issue of Croatian Crypto Stamp, Croatia Post has issued a second set of Cypto Stamp 2 with stamp printed on a credit card sized card paper and with a corresponding unique QR code printed which when scanned takes you to the Croatia Post Portal online to view the particular motif of the particular stamp.
The motifs on the stamp depicts the various modes of transportation of Mail throughout the postal history. The 5 different motifs identified on the stamps are Mail Coach (3000 copies), A postilion on horseback (4,000 copies), a telegraph deliveryman on a bicycle (6,000 copies), a postman on a moped (8,000 copies), and Austro-Hungarian Postman (9000 copies) making a total of 30,000 stamps. Besides this each of the motif has only 1 exclusive gold-plated version which can be identified as a Gold Motif online. (so there is only 5 of a gold kind motif available online from the 30000 digital categories)
Digital Gold version each unique to 1 in 30000
Taken from the Net (For information only)
HISTORY OF THE TRANSFER OF POSTAL ITEMS
Austro-Hungarian postman, 1900s
Throughout the long history of news transmission, the postman is the constant on which the whole activity rests. From the first messengers on foot in ancient civilizations who, according to Herodotus, could be stopped by " neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, to the fearless Dubrovnik messenger who had to walk for a month to reach Istanbul, and all the way to a reliable Austro-Hungarian postman with a full mail bag shown on this motif. Every news carrier was adorned with speed, accuracy, and reliability, the same features as postmen today.
Austrian postilion, around 1730
A written message delivered to a messenger on horseback travelled significantly faster than a message carried by a messenger on foot. In cases of great haste, correspondence was marked “Cito, Cito, Citissime” (Latin for Fast, Fast, Fastest). A few centuries ago, a horseman in the service of the post office throughout Europe was called a postilion (from French postillion). He was adorned with an official postal uniform prescribed by special provisions, a specially shaped cap and high sturdy riding boots. A postilion was recognizable to everyone by the postal horn he wore slung over his shoulder and by which he announced his arrival at the destination as needed.
Mail coach for passengers, luggage and mail in Dalmatia, 1890s
The invention of horse-drawn vehicles made it possible to naturally connect the transport of goods and passengers with the transmission of news. The most important means of postal transport before the advent of the railway was a mail coach, mostly its fast version - a stagecoach. The guard of the mail coach, a postilion, took care of the safety of the passengers, but also the horses. He used a post horn to warn other coaches on the road to let the mail coach pass as well to signal its arrival at the post offices, which were evenly distributed along the main state roads for the needs of postal traffic.
Telegraph delivery man on a bicycle in Zagreb, 1930s
After being delivered from the World's Fair in Paris in 1867, the bicycle became extremely popular in Croatia, so it is not surprising that it was mentioned at the end of the 19th century as a new postal delivery vehicle. The original function of the postal two-wheeler was the delivery of urgent telegrams. This is evidenced by the telegram carrying case hung over the shoulder of this delivery man on a bicycle from the 1930s. The scene of the postman on a bicycle has thus become an everyday occurrence that evokes sympathy even today.
Postman on a moped in Zagreb, 1960s
The motorization of postal transport in Croatia began in the 1910s, a decade after the first cars arrived in Croatia. Car transport has brought a new quality to postal traffic, especially when it comes to the speed and safety of transport of postal items, but also passengers. The modernization of the postal delivery service was later continued with the introduction of motorcycles alongside bicycles into delivery service. On a moped, like this one from the 1960s, the postman will deliver urgent mail for decades to come.
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