2017-08-31 Thu

Romanian Museums are featured on three sets of stamps, commemorating the 60th anniversary of National Museum of Romanian Literature. The set includes an 8-leu stamp, picturing the founder of the museum, poet and literary critic Dumitru Panaitescu, pen name Perpessicius (1891-1971). The museum’s logo also is shown. The logo also featured on the 16-leu stamp in a souvenir sheet of one. The selvage of the sheet depicts handwritten stanzas of the poem To the Star by Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889).

A May 27 issue called Distinguished Collections pictures ancient jewelry from the National Museum of Romanian History.

For example, a souvenir sheet with a 15-leu stamp depicts a fourth-century spiral bracelet with a ram’s head on both ends. This golden Dacian bracelet was uncovered in 1959 in the village of Berceni. The set also includes 4-leu, 4.50-leu, 8-leu and 12-leu stamps, showing earrings, bell pendants, and more bracelets.

On 29th June, a set of six stamps and a souvenir sheet were issued, honouring museums that are part of the Bucharest Municipality Museum network. Few stamps showcase the exterior view of the museums, and other depict objects contained in them.

The 2.50-leu low denomination features the museum in the house of George Severeanu, Romania’s first radiologist. Items from Severeanu’s collections of Greek pottery and coins are pictured on the stamp.

Other stamps featured the Theodor Aman Museum, Bucharest’s first art museum, 2.70 lei; the Nicolae Minovici Folk Art Museum, 3.50 lei; the Admiral Vasile Urseanu Astronomical Observatory, 4 lei; the Victor Babes Memorial Museum, 4.50 lei; and the Filipescu-Cesianu House, 15 lei.

On the 16-leu stamp in the souvenir sheet, the museum’s main location, the Sutu Palace is depicted. Mihail Vamasescu designed all of these Romanian stamps.