North Korea 2019 - Traditional Dishes

Technical Details:

Date of Issue: 20 February 2019
Size: 42 mm x 30 mm
Denomination: 160 won
Designer: Ri Jin Hyok
Printing: Offset
Quantity: 10,000 sets (Perforation) ; 1,000.- sets (Imperforation)
Price: $1,60 (Perf), $3,20 (Imperf)

10 Won - Frozen Potato Cake, 
30 Won - Mung Bean Jelly Cake, 
50 Won - Kudzu Root Starch Cake
70 Won - Steamed Terrapin

Colombia 2018 - Colombian Gastronomy

Technical Details:
Date of Issue: 15 March 2018
Presentation: Sheet with 12 stamps
Size: 40 mm x 30 mm
Printing: 50,004 stamps
Face Value: $ 5,000 COP
Stamp Printer: Cartor Security Printing

Colombia 2019 - UPAEP, Traditional Meals

Technical Details:
Date of Issue: 09 October 2019
Presentation: Sheet with 4 stamps
Size: 40 mm x 30 mm
Printing: 22,364 stamps
Face Value: $ 2,000 COP
Stamp Printer: Cartor Security Printing

Panela: hardened sugar cane molasses. 
Banana chips Banana with panela candy.

Czech Republic 2018 - Martinmas Traditions

Technical Details:
Date of issue 24 October 2018
Face Value: 19,00 CZK
Print Sheets: 50 stamps

Size: 23 mm x 40 mm
Graphic Designer: Jiří Slíva
Method of Printing: Multicoloured Offset
Note: A stamp identified with the letter A corresponding to the price of Ordinary Letter – Standard up to 50 g in domestic service

Theme:
Symbols associated with Martinmas Tradition - Goose and Wine

A Czech proverb connected with the St. Martin’s Day says, Saint Martin is coming on a white horse, signifying the arrival of first snow that year. Regardless of whether or not he brings snow, he always comes with fresh Merlot, Müller, Portuguese and St. Laurent wines, not to mention the goose. Although the name St. Martin’s wine was first introduced at the Emperor Joseph II’s court to refer to the local counterpart of the beaujolais nouveau, first uncorked at Martinmas, the wine was first officially marketed under the brand name by the Czech Wine Fund in 2005. The resumed Czech tradition successfully competes with the French one. Wheras the French red beaujolais nouveau is uncorked on the third November Thursday, Czech St. Martin’s wines (dry white, rose or red) must be first opened at Martinmas, i.e. on the 11th day of November at 11 a.m. Martinmas goose is another tradition connected with St. Martin. A legend has it that the saint was so modest that he was unwilling to be made bishop of Tours. So when he saw the messengers coming to tell him about his appointment, he hid himself in a barn full of geese. However, their cackling at his intrusion gave him away. Another legend says that he was so disturbed by their cackling during a sermon, that he sentenced them to death and roasting on each anniversary day.

The postage stamp is issued both in the form of sheets and as a book of 8 stamps and 2 x 2 various coupons.

Czech Republic 2019 - Czech Inventions: Sugar cube

Technical Details:
Date of Issue: 06 March 2019
Face Value/ Price: 19,00 CZK
Print Sheets: 50 stamps
Size: 23 mm x 40 mm
Graphic Designer: Jiří Slíva
Method of Printing: Multicoloured Offset

Theme
A motif of a hand holding a sugar cube to sweeten a cup of coffee or tea.

After the end of the Napoleonic wars, attempts at extracting sugar from sugar beet were resumed in the Habsburg monarchy in the1820s. The first modern type sugar manufacture in the western part of the Habsburg monarchy was founded in Kostelní Vydří nearby Dačice in the estate of Karel Maxmilián Dalberg in 1829. In 1833, František Grebner, with the financial support of Viennese banker J.B. Puthon, established a sugar refinery directly in Dačice. The Dačice refinery resumed the tradition of the sugar factory in Kostelní Vydří. Dačice sugar was supplied to Southwest Moravia, South and East Bohemia as well as to Austrian borderlands. Sugar was also sold from warehouses of the Dačice refinery established in Vienna, Pest, Lvov, and also in Brno. Jakub Kryštof Rad, the refinery director, established a manufacture of candied fruit, sweets, and chocolate in Dačice in 1841, in which he also involved his wife Juliana, in order to make better use of some of the sugar refinery products. The difficult-to-use shapes of sugar products, such as cones, hats, or loaves, made Jakub Kryštof Rad to come up with the idea of sugar cubes. Cone-shape sugar was impractical both for business and private use - cones were difficult to pack and easy to break. Also, attempts at cutting an exact amount of sugar were not always successful and a lot of sugar was wasted. The patent for the production of sugar cubes was soon acquired by Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, Switzerland, and England. An improved form of Rad’s invention is still used by sugar refineries all around the world.