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11.12.2002        First Day Cover:  1 2 3 44 stamps: Printing (stamps): Rotary recess print combined with photogravure Printing (FDC): Recess print from flat plates Stamp size: 23 x 40 mm Denominations: CZK 6.40; CZK 9.00; CZK 12.00; CZK 17.00. Sheet: 50 stamps Graphic Artist: Bedřich Housa Engraver: Bedřich Housa Printer: Post Printing House, Prague On 11th December, 2002 the Ministry of Post and Communications of the Czech Republic issued a series of four commemorative postage stamps in the series Collecting - Period Furniture. CZK 6.40: Baroque armchair, the end of 17th century Colours: black (recess print), light blue, red, brown, dark red CZK 9.00: Empire stitch table, ca 1820 Colours: black (recess print), yellow, red, blue, green CZK 12.00: Toilet table, ca. 1860 Colours: black (recess print), yellow, red, blue, violet CZK 17.00: Bohemian art deco, armchair ca. 1923 Colours: black (recess print), yellow, red, blue, red-brown The author of the issue, ac. painter, graphic artist and engraver Bedřich Housa, has drawn up this issue so that the stamps and the First Day Covers represented the main styles which came into use between the end of 17th century to twenties of 20th century: the stamp with Baroque armchair - the cover with a rococo table (Venezia, the middle of 18th century), the stamp with the empire stitch table - the cachet of the cover is a cradle in the biedermaier style (ca.1830), the stamp with toilet table from the workshop Thonet - the cachet is a seat (secession), the stamp the armchair (Bohemian art deco) - the cover with a chair in the style rondo (cubism) from 1922 (designed by Josef Gočár). The author of the issue drew up from the collections of Museum of Applied Art in Prague. The stamps, sized 23 x 40 mm were printed by the Post Printing House in Prague by rotary recess print in black combined with photogravure in printing sheets of 50 pcs. The covers were printed in blue (1), light brown (2), brown (3) and dark brown (4). The stamps are valid for inland and international postage from 11th December, 2002 onwards.
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