Post WarCzechoslovakia

1945-1954

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1945Košice Issue

Type IZero’s centre wide

1945

Type IIZero’s centre narrow

Bratislava Issue

Moscow Issue

1945London Issue

Slovak National Uprising Issue

1945Anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising

World Student CongressJan Sladký Kozina

1945Linden Leaf Issue

Type IElliptical zero

Type IIRounded zero

Portrait Issue

Plate FlawBlack bar across the lion’s tail in the second row’s first stamp is repeated for every block of ten stamps.

1945

Official Stamps

Newspaper Stamps

1945Stamps with Coupons

Type I: B in BRNO aligned with stamp’s left edge.

National Postage Stamp Exhibition

Type I: B in BRNO extends left of the stamp.

1946

Czechs and Slovaks Return to Their Homeland

Cities Issue

Dr Edvard Beneš

Karel Havlíček Borovský

Airmail Issue

1946

Postage Due Stamps

Type I: Květen 7.25 mm below the stamp. Type I: Květen 9.25 mm below the stamp.

Anniversary of the May Uprising

1946Personal Direct Delivery Stamp

1946Stamps with Coupons

Fifth Anniversary of the Obliteration of Lidice

1947

1797 Štefan Moyses 1947

1917 Great October Socialist Revolution 1947

World Youth Festival

950th Anniversary of the Death of Saint Adalbert

Tenth Anniversary of the Death of T G Masaryk

Two-Year Economic Plan

1947

Official Stamps

1947Stamps with Coupons

1948Dr Edvard Beneš

XI All-Sokol Meeting

600th Anniversary of the Founding of Charles University

Type III.There are three types identifiable by the line above the left dove’s head.

Thirty Years of Czechoslovak Postage Stamps

1948

Thirtieth Anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s Founding

Death of Dr Edvard Beneš

Fifth Anniversary of the Soviet-Czechoslovak Accord

1948100th Anniversary of the Abolition of Serfdom

Children’s Issue

100th Anniversary of the Slovak Uprising

100th Anniversary of the Koměříž Assembly

There are ten types, most quite difficult to identify.This appears to be either Type V or Type VII.

Klement Gottwald

1948

Type IOpen corner on right lapel.

Type IIClosed corner on right lapel.

1948Stamps with Coupons

1949First Anniversary of Victorious February

Second Pan-Union Congress

Miners’ Day

Ninth Czechoslovak Communist Party Congress

1949

F Chopin

B Smetana

A S Puškin

J V Stalin

25th Anniversary of V I Lenin’s Death

Czechoslovak Red Cross

Prague Sample Fair Jubilee

Children’s Issue

Universal Postal Union 75th Anniversary

1949

Airmail Stamps

Type IStraight Overprint.

Type IISlanted Overprint.

1949

Political and Cultural Celebrities

Zvolen Castle

1949Stamps with Coupons

1950

Tatra Cup

S K NeumannPoet

Božena NěmcováAuthor

Zdeněk FibichComposer

J Gregor-TajovskýPlaywright and Journalist

V V MajakovskýPoet

Personalities

1950

Fifth Anniversary of Liberation

National Postage Stamp Exhibition 1950

2nd Congress of the SCSP

1950

Czechoslovak Army Day

1st Anniversary of the Establishment ofthe International Association of Postal, Telephone, Telegraph, and Radio Employees

2nd International Student Congress

National Postage Stamp ExhibitionPrague 1950

1950

There are numerous types and subtypes.

Prague Spring

A Dvořák B Smetana

1951

Personalities

Julius FučíkJournalist

Bohumír ŠmeralPolitician and journalist

Josef HybešLabour movement activist

Peter JilemnickýAuthor

Ninth Congress of the Czechoslovak Sokol Community

1951

Miners’ Day

Lánská Action

International Women’s Day

Czechoslovak-Soviet Friendship Month

1951

Thirtieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Czechoslovak Communist Party

Czechoslovak Army Day

Alois Jirásek

1951

Airmail Issue

First Five-Year Plan

First Czechoslovak Peace Defenders’ Congress Socialist Agriculture

Recreation Facilities for the Workers

Sixth Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

1952

International Women’s Day

Klement Gottwald

Personalities

Ladislav ZípotockýLabour Activist

Ján KollárPoet

Jan Amos KomenskýAuthor and Teacher

Otakar ŠevčíkViolin Teacher

F L ČeakovskýAuthor and Translator

195240th Anniversary of the 6th Pan-Russian Social Democratic Party Conference, Prague

Jan Hus

Jpsef Václav Myslbek

International Children’s Day

Socialist Health Care

1952

Dr Emil Holub

Day of Solidarity with Liberated Political Prisoners

World Youth Week

Welcoming Soviet Tanks to Prague - 9 May 1952

Socialist Agriculture

1952

International Children’s Defence Conference

Prague Spring

Unified Physical Education

Tenth Anniversary of the Obliteration of Lidice

May Day

1952

Miners’ Day

Czechoslovak Army Day

Fourth Anniversary of Victorious February

First National Congress of the Czechoslovak Red Cross

35th Anniversary of the Great October Revolution

National Postage Stamp Exhibition Bratislava ‘52

1952

World Congress of Nation for Peace

100 Anniversary of the Birth of Mikolas Ales

1953

Fifth Anniversary of Victorious February

Klement Gottwald

2nd Defenders of Peace Congress, Prague January 1953

Authors

75th Birth Anniversary Z. Nejedly Bedřich Václavek

1953

Building Socialism

Founders of the Czechoslovak Labour Movement

Socialist Village

May Day

1953

Death of Stalin

Death of Gottwald

Currency ReformBegan on 19 June 1953

International Women’s Day

Sixth International Bicycle Race for Peace

Klement Gottwald

Antonín Zápotocký

Line 11¾×11¼ Line 12½

1953

1953

Prague Congress of the Defenders of Peace

70th Anniversary of the Prague National Theatre

Type I Type II Type III

Czechoslovak Army Day

Charles Bridge

Blue-grey (1953- 11/1959) Grey-black (12/59-60) Grey (after 1961)

Month of Soviet-Czechoslovak Friendship

1953Julius Fučík

Transport

125th Birth Anniversary of L N Tolstoy

Miners’ Day

1953

Prague Spring

Josef Mánes

Václav Hollar

United Sports

195425th Anniversary of Czechoslovak Communist Party Congress

A P Čechov

Soviet-Czechoslovak Friendship Month

First Anniversary of the Deaths of Stalin and Gottwald

Sports

1954

Czechoslovak Army Day

Tenth Anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising

Year of Czech Music

Our Beautiful Cities

V I Lenin

A Zápotocký’s 70th Birthday

1954

Poets

200th Anniversary of the Invention of the Lightening Rod

1954

Occupations

Postage Due Issue