Europa CEPT'2020. Ancient postal routes. Prestige booklet #88

Perforation type: 13 ½x13

Subject:

Of the entire booklet, windmills are present only on the stamp sheets and on the fifth page of the narrative - on the engraving reproduction below. The description for the engraving says: "View of the village of Oudshoorn, Carel Frederik Bendorp (I), after Jan Bulthuis, 1786 - 1792".

2 windmills can be seen on the right side of the enlarged detail.

 

Size (of sheet, booklet) mm: 151x102

Subject:

3 stamp sheets (blocks) include two stamps of the main issue and differ only in quotes from great people in the margins.

The first block contains two quotes:

1. "Only a mother can send a hug by letter." Pam Brown, Australian Poet.

2. "No one is more lonely than the person who has never received a letter." Elias Ganetti, Austrian, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature

Subject:

The second block (6th page of the booklet) includes the following quotes:

1. "Letters are among the most important memorials an individual can leave". Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and poet.

2. "In the past, someone waited patiently until the next week if he missed the stagecoach. Now he gets furious when he misses the first section of the revolving door." Simeon Strunsky, American journalist

Subject:

In the third block (9 booklet sheet) contains the following utterances:

1. "Letter writing is outdated. But that doesn't speak against writing, but against time." Hans Weigel, Austrian writer and theater critic.

2. "When you start saving, you like every stamp." Cees Buddingh, Dutch writer and poet.