COVER N.54 - Slovakia

Postmark: Bratislava
Posted on the 15th November; received on the 23rd November
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Within days of receiving a cover from Slovakia, I got another one. As the portuguese saying goes, "there's no hunger that doesn't become abundance".  Thanks so much for the nice cover Venco. 

 

The 0,95€ stamp was issued on Stamp day - 03DEC2018 - and it celebrates the first Czechoslovak stamp ever issued, that is reproduced on the stamp. A se-tenant vignette is illustrated with the picture of the designer of the first stamp, Alfons Mucha.

The Tariff 1, 50g stamp was issued on 04APR2019 and it celebrates the 75th anniversary of ICAO, the International Civil Aviation Organisation.

The aircraft depicted on the stamp is a Caproni Ca.3, a bomber used in the first world war by the Italian Army. The plane was that on which  General Milan Rastislav Stefanik flew to his death on a crash close to the airfield of Bratislava where he was about to land after departing from Italy.

Other than aviator Milan Rastislav Stefanik was also an astronomer, a skill that would take him to France eventually to obtain French citizenship in 1902 and an active participation in the First World War, fueled by the belief that the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a member of the triple alliance with Germany and Italy, would lead the way to an independent Czechoslovakia.

This objective t was fully achieved  as a result of the efforts and action of the Czechoslovak National Council created by  Tomáš Masaryk, Edvard Beneš  and Milan Stefanik, when, on the 28th October 1918, a fortnight before the end of the hostilities of the War to end all wars, Czechoslovakia became independent, although still within the Austgro-Hungarian Empire.