Yugoslavian Stamps

As the theme for this week's Sunday Stamps #169 is  stamps from Russia or other former communist countries, reaching into my former homeland's stamp collection seemed a logical choice. And to start with, a set that immediately associates with the theme with its burning red stars: issued in 1964 for a communist congress.

Two examples of stamps issued for the children's week (dečja nedelja) each year, would have been apt for last week's theme as well :)

I have acquired some Yugoslavian stamps on my own but I was also lucky to inherit an album with lots of wonderful sets of mostly used stamps - here is a collection of national costumes, they are actually parts of different sets issued over the years. I have singled out a Croatian example for the set issued in 1961, which I believe is showing the national costumes of Jamnica in the capital region. I just love those 'head covers'! (in search of a better word)

More stamps on the theme can be found via this link:

Mozambique

Sunday Stamps #168 theme: of children and for children. Lucky chance I have acquired this International Year Of The Child FDC from 1979 last month at a market in Lisbon, with colourful children's drawings. There were many covers from Portugal and its former colonies, and I really had to exercise some serious abstinence!

UNESCO proclaimed 1979 as the International Year of the Child. The proclamation was signed on January 1, 1979 by United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim. A follow-up to the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the proclamation was intended to draw attention to problems that affected children throughout the world, including malnutrition and lack of access to education. Many of these efforts resulted in the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.