Hi folks,
This time I have something little bit different.
Few days ago, on April 6th we celebrated day of the city here in Sarajevo. This date is also related to quite few important historical moments, on April 6th 1941, Germany attacked Kingdom of Yugoslavia (part of which during that time was Bosnia and Herzegovina). On same date 1945, resistance of remaining German and collaborationist troops in Sarajevo was broken and Sarajevo was liberated from Nazi grip. Finally on April 6th 1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina became recognized by many countries of European Union as independent country.
As you can imagine on such important date many manifestations took place all around city. In Sarajevo we have Society of postage stamps and coins collectors of which I'm also a member of and just a little bit before this date we decided it would be nice to organize small joint exhibition. We acted promptly and got some support from City government and also from Gazi Husref bey library which offered us their premises for exhibition. Total of 20 people exhibited some parts of their collection and all I can say it was pretty neat little exhibition! Below are some photos of event and exhibits, hope you enjoy it :)
This time I have something little bit different.
Few days ago, on April 6th we celebrated day of the city here in Sarajevo. This date is also related to quite few important historical moments, on April 6th 1941, Germany attacked Kingdom of Yugoslavia (part of which during that time was Bosnia and Herzegovina). On same date 1945, resistance of remaining German and collaborationist troops in Sarajevo was broken and Sarajevo was liberated from Nazi grip. Finally on April 6th 1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina became recognized by many countries of European Union as independent country.
As you can imagine on such important date many manifestations took place all around city. In Sarajevo we have Society of postage stamps and coins collectors of which I'm also a member of and just a little bit before this date we decided it would be nice to organize small joint exhibition. We acted promptly and got some support from City government and also from Gazi Husref bey library which offered us their premises for exhibition. Total of 20 people exhibited some parts of their collection and all I can say it was pretty neat little exhibition! Below are some photos of event and exhibits, hope you enjoy it :)
As you can see media representatives were there too!
It was not crowded but can't say there was no interest for it :)
Chairman of our little society had to give speech!
Topic of exhibits were quite colorful as you can imagine.
This is a exhibit on first president of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito
I liked this one (made by before mentioned chairman :) ) Postcards of old part of city by the end of 19th century
They say modesty is one of my many virtues :D so I have to show off my exhibit, Money on stamps
This is one very serious exhibit, Bosnia and Herzegovina issue from 1906, considered one of the most beautiful issues in general philately. This exhibit shows basic set as well as many trial prints perforations etc.
And for the end Chess on stamps!
I hope you enjoyed this virtual exhibition!
Love this post and the involvement in a historic occasion. Very nice to see your money on stamps exhibit too! Beautiful work! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteNice to see it. I would have be nice to attend in person!
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