Australia Philately: 1973 Architecture – 40c Como – Melbourne

Details Series: 1973 Architecture Subject: Como – Melbourne Designer: Arthur Leydin Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Press: Chambon Process: Multicolour photogravure Cylinders: Pink – Grey – Black (printing order) Paper: KP5D unwatermarked coated paper incorporating helecon Watermark: None Perf: 13.25 x 13.5 (comb) Sheet: Printed in two panes of 50…

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Australia Philately: 1973 Architecture – 7c Opera House – Sydney

Details Series: 1973 Architecture Subject: Opera House Designer: Arthur Leydin Printer: Note Printing Branch, Reserve Bank of Australia, Melbourne Press: Rembrandt Process: Multicolour photogravure Cylinders: Light Blue – Mid Blue – Dark Blue I [30% of printing] Light Blue – Mid Blue – Dark Blue II [70% of printing] Paper: KP5D unwatermarked coated…

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Bahamas Philately: 1973 Christmas – 11c Virgin & Child with St. John by Filippino Lippi

Details Series: 1973 Christmas Subject: Virgin & Child with St. John by Filippino Lippi Designer: Clive Abbott Printer: Format International Security Printers Ltd Process: Lithography Paper:  Watermark: Multiple St Edward’s Crown Block CA (sideways) Perf: 14 (comb) Cylinders:  1A (Cyan) 1A (Yellow) 1A (Magenta) 1A (Black) 1A (Turquoise) 1A (Gold) 1B (Cyan) 1B (Yellow) 1B (Magenta)…

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Bahamas Philately: 1973 Christmas – 3c The Virgin In Prayer by Sassoferrato

Details Series: 1973 Christmas Subject: The Virgin In Prayer by Sassoferrato Designer: Clive Abbott Printer: Format International Security Printers Ltd Process: Lithography Paper:  Watermark: Multiple St Edward’s Crown Block CA (sideways) Perf: 14 (comb) Cylinders:  1A (Cyan) 1A (Yellow) 1A (Magenta) 1A (Black) 1A (Blue) 1A (Gold) 1B (Cyan) 1B (Yellow) 1B (Magenta)…

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Zambia Philately: 1973 25th Anniversary of the World Health Organisation – 10n Immunization – Eradication of Smallpox

One of the most spectacularly successful large-scale programme undertaken by WHO was the attempt to achieve worldwide eradication of smallpox. By 1973, only seven countries are were affected by the disease, compared with 30 in 1967. However, the disease was endemic in only one country in Africa. Details Designer: Gabriel Ellison…

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Zambia Philately: 1973 25th Anniversary of the World Health Organisation – 9n Under Five’s Clincs

Preventive medicine aims to prevent sickness before it happens. The ideology behind preventive medicine focuses on protecting, promoting, and maintaining health and well-being. It also aims to avert disease, disability, and death on an individual basis, as well as on a large scale in communities and populations. During the 1950s,…

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Zambia Philately: 1973 25th Anniversary of the World Health Organisation – 15n Health Begins at Home

WHO recognised four nutritional deficiency diseases that, by their extent and social significance, caused the most serious public health problems in the developing countries. There were protein, calorie malnutrition, xerophthalmia, nutritional anaemias, and endemic goitre. In most WHO-assisted nutrition projects, the nutrition activities were carried out within the framework of…

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