2079) Ethnic Treasures, Bosnia & Herzegovina:: HP Mostar has issued a postage stamp of 0.20 BAM depicting the Charcoal Iron: Date of Stamp issue: 09.10.2021:

2079) Ethnic Treasures, Bosnia & Herzegovina:: HP Mostar has issued a postage stamp of 0.20 BAM depicting the Charcoal Iron: Date of Stamp issue: 09.10.2021:

Bosnia & Herzegovina now has three Posts:

Bosnia and Herzegovina Post (BH Posta, Sarejevo), Croatian Posts (HP Mostar, Mostar) and Serbian Posts (Srpske Poste, Banja Luka). This Stamp has been issued by HP Mostar. 

The Croatian Post Mostar has traditionally been  issuing postage stamps with the theme of ethnological treasures in order to preserve the country's past.

About Ethnological Treasure 2021 - Charcoal Iron:

Ethnology is a specific science that deals with the study of human society and culture. 

In addition to historical forms of peasant culture (the peasantry was the bearer and the guardian of folk culture until the middle of the 20th century).

Presently, Ethnology also studies the modern way of life and the culture of human societies. 

In the beginning, clothing arose from the human need to protect the body from external influences. 

Over time it became a sign of civilization, and then the need to beautify the appearance arose. 

With time, along with many aids used to make clothes look better, the iron appeared. 

In the 1st century BCE, in Asia metal trays filled with ember were used, and in the early sixteenth century the use of triangular thick cast iron plates emerged. 

The Charcoal Iron had a detachable handle in the 19th Century. 

Later came irons that were heated by accumulating heat on stoves or were heated from the inside by embers and fuels.

In 1882, the first electric iron was patented by in the USA. 

The Stamp:

The Postage stamp of 0.20 BAM depicts a Charcoal Iron

The First Day Cover (FDC) shows a Charcoal Iron at left. A cancelled postage stamp issued is affixed at top right.

The Special Cancellation Postmark is of Mostar Post Office and the cancellation is dated - "09.10.2021".

A Sheetlet of 9 Stamps

Technical details:

Stamp Issue Date: 09.10.2021

Designer: Magdalena Džinić Hrkać

Printer: AKD d.o.o. Zagreb

Size: 25.56 mm x 35.50 mm

Values: 0.20 BAM

Links to posts on Bosnia & Herzegovina on this blog:

1) Bosnia & Herzegovina: Currency & Coinage: Convertible Mark ("Konvertibilna Marka") and Fenings

Myths & Flora Stamp Series:

2) a) Vjetrenica - largest known cave in Bosnia & Herzegovina; b) The Heather (Calluna vulgaris): Stamps issued under the Series titled "About Myths and Flora" on 22.05.2018

2) b) Goddess Lada ad the Peony plant/Flower, Bosnia and Herzegovina, MOSTAR: The latest stamp in the Series titled "Myths and Flora" features the Myth of Lada, a Slavic Goddess and the Peony Flower: Date of Stamp release: 16.06.2021

3) Turtles, Bosnia & Herzegovina: A set of four stamps of 3.10 BAM each, issued featuring the Pond Turtle, Land Turtle, Loggerhead Sea Turrtle and Green Turtle: Stamp set issue date: 01.11.2019

4) World Water Day (WWD), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Mostar): A set of two Stamps featuring the beautiful Ramsko jezero Lake issued by Mostar Post Office: Date of Stamp Set issue: 23.03.2020

 5) "Ancient Postal Routes, Biga", Bosnia & Herzegovina: Two EUROPA stamps of 3.00 Euro each depicting a Wagon and the two faces of a Silver Coin issued on 05.04.2020

6) "Archaeological Treasures - Stecak Necropolis Radmlja", Bosnia and Herzegovina Post ( HP Mostar) on the Stecak Necropolis Radmilja: Date of stamp issue: 12.05.2020

7) Endangered Butterflies (Fauna), Bosnia and Herzegovina: A set of four postage stamps in the denomination of 2.90 BAM each, depicting four endangered butterflies found in Bosnia & Herzegovina, issued by HP Mostar: Date of Stamps issue: 01.11.2020

8) "Endemic Plants", (Flora 2020), Bosnia & Herzegovina: Two stamps of 2.70 BAM each brought out by HP Mostar: Date of Stamp Set issue: 01.11.2020

9) "World Wetlands Day", Bosnia & Herzegovina: A Postage Stamp of 0.90 BAM issued by HP Mostar, Mostar: Date of Stamp issue: 02.02.2021

10) Sava Shumanovic, Painter, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Republic of Srpska: A commemorative postage stamp of 1.95 BAM issued by "Srpske Poste" (Serbian Post): Date of Stamp issue: 19.02.2021

11) "Endangered National Wildlife - The Great Black Grouse, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Mostar): EUROPA - 2021: Mostar Post has issued a set of two Stamps of the values of 3.00 BAM each featuring the critically Endangered Great Black Grouse: Date of Stamp Set issue: 05.04.2021

12) Ethnic Treasures, Bosnia & Herzegovina: HP Mostar has issued a postage stamp of 0.20 BAM depicting the Charcoal Iron: Date of Stamp issue: 09.10.2021