Theme : Esperanto 12

In april 1945, while Europe was still under the destructive influence of the second world war, a peace loving, universal congress took place at the other side of the world, in Brazil.

Rio de Janeiro, hosted the 10th Brazilian Esperanto congress, from April 14 till April 22.
On the occasion of this event, two stamps were issued, a 40 cent green stamp and a brown 1.20 cruzeiros stamp for airmail.

Brazil 1945 - 1.20  Cr. and 40 cent

This letter sent to an address in Brazil, didn't need the extra rate for air mail, but the value was good to send the letter by express service.

Express sending cancel

Letters sent by esperantists often show some extra labels, stickers, or even drawings of topic-related items.
For this 10th Brazilian congress, a rubber stamp printing was used, depicting L.L. Zamenhof 

rubber stamp cancel 'Zamenhof'

Often are those extra decorations in green, as shown above. The cover in my collection has the same decoration twice, once in green, once in the uncommon colour red.

The text, surrounding the image of L.L. Zamenhof says : "Rio de Janeiro - Brazil - 10th Brazilian Congress of esperantists - April 1945"

The back of the cover shows another cancel, from the day of arrival, April 17, 1945.
The cover was sent on the 1st day of issue of the two stamps. Most likely, a special post office was in office during the Esperanto congress.

1st day cover 16 april 1945 Brazil

to be continued ...

Theme : Esperanto 11

It has been a while since I posted some Esperanto theme related things;
Going through my Israel collection, I remembered that this country issued a stamp in 2006 to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the language Esperanto (in 2007).
In 2007 it was also the 90th anniversary to the death of L.L. Zamenhof.

Stamp with tab - Israel 2006 / 2007

On the stamp, with the mandatory tab, the portrait of Zamenhof is made up of Esperanto text.

detail

“Zamenhof naskiĝis en la Ulica Zielona 6 en [Biali]stoko (tiam en la Rusa Imperio de la caroj, nun en Pollando). Lia naski tago estis la [3-a] de decembro la* la julia kalendaro, la 15-a de cecembro la gregoria kalendaro kaj la 19-a de kislew la* la juda….”
* The double 'la' should be 'de la' or 'en la', not 'la la' 
  
Translated it means : Zamenhof was born (naskiĝis = past tense of naskiĝi: to be born) in 'Zielona street nr 6' in Bialystok (at that time in the Russian Imperium of the tzars, now in Poland).
His birthday was the 3rd of December in the Julian calendar, the 15th of December in the Gregorian calendar and the 19th of kislew, in the Jewish (calendar).


In the mid 19th century, the Russian Empire still used the Julian calendar.
That's why the October Revolution was actually in November.
Since Zamenhof was Jewish - and this stamp is issued by Israel, also the Jewish calendar is mentionned.

All Israeli stamps are issued with a 'tab', often they contain extra information, a logo, or the image continues on the tab.
Not all stamps in a sheet have this tab, so there are less 'tabbed' stamps than stamps without tabs.
The catalogues mentionnes both stamps, but stamps with tab are more sought and more worth.

In this case, the tab does give some extras:
the image continues through tab and stamp and on the tab we also see the Esperanto flag, known as 'la verda stelo' (the green star). 

tab on Israeli Esperanto stamp (detail)

"Sur la tuta tero estis unu lingvo kaj unu parolmaniero... Genezo 11.1"
On the whole world, there was one language and one way of speaking .... Genesis 11.1

Green stands for hope, and 'Esperanto' means 'hoping', but I wonder if Zamenhof got this idea from the street where he was born, 'Ulica zielona' (Polish) = green street' ...  

Zamenhof, Esperanto flag and 'peace in the world'

 

Theme : Esperanto 07

Stamps on the theme of Esperanto can easily be found.
Coins however are less easy to obtain.
And yet, there are...
A fine example is this 1 Cuba Peso coin, to commemorate the Esperanto Congress in Havana in 1990.
It's a non-circulating commemorative coin.
Mintage is 6000 only!
Catalognumber (Krause) KM 250
Ø 30 mm
Copper - Nickel