2529) World Animal Day, Netherlands: PostNL (Netherlands Post) has issued a set of 5 stamps marked "Internationaal 1" featuring five different animal species: Date of Stamp set issued: 04.10.2022:
About World Animal Day:
World Animal Day was introduced in 1925 and has been celebrated in the Netherlands since 1930.
World Animal Day was conceived by journalist and author Heinrich Zimmerman (1888-1942).
This animal rights activist and publisher of "Mensch und Hund" magazine organised the first World Animal Day, which took place on 24 March 1925.
In 1929, he moved the date to 4 October.
At the 1931 International Animal Protection Congress in Florence, the proposal to celebrate the day on 4 October all over the globe received unanimous support.
The Netherlands held its first large-scale celebration of World Animal Day a year earlier, with an impressive parade through the Hague.
The choice of 4 October has everything to do with the fact that this date is the feast day of Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), founder of the Franciscan monastic order and patron saint of animals.
According to legend, St Francis once preached a sermon to animals and befriended a wolf.
The Stamps:
On the five stamps, five different animal species draw our attention to animal welfare, along with practical tips on how we can offer help to animals in need.
These stamps are marked ‘Internationaal 1’, the denomination for items up to 20g in weight destined for delivery outside of the Netherlands.
With the issue of the World Animal Day stamp sheet on 4 October 2022, PostNL has highlighted the celebration of this unique day dedicated to animals.
The World Animal Day Stamp Sheet (SS) features five postage stamps in five designs within the fixed frame of the personal stamp.
The stamps feature photographic portraits of different animals, with ducklings, a goat, a seal, a cat and a hedgehog from left to right.
On all pictures on the stamps, the animal looks at the viewer, just like the dog on the edge of the sheet.
The square green text logo of "World Animal Day" is featured alternately on the top right and bottom left of the stamps.
The short texts on the tabs below the stamps give practical tips on how people can truly help animals.
This is the first time PostNL has issued a sheet of personalised stamps with tabs.
To the right of the large portrait picture of the dog on the edge of the sheet, the call "to help us" is featured in large letters.
To the left of the dog appears the same World Animal Day text logo as on the stamps, with the date 04th October below it.
The top left features the International Logo of World Animal Day - a hand holding a globe that radiates sunbeams, featuring silhouettes of different animal species.
The font used for the denomination "1" and "Internationaal" was designed in 2018 by type designer Martin Majoor from Arnhem.
The rest of the typography uses the New Rubrik Edge in semibold and light. The New Rubrik Edge is a 2019 design by Miles Newlyn, Adam Katyi, Leo Philp and Alexei Vanyashin of Newlyn Fonts Type Foundry in London, England.
The World Animal Day sheetlet was designed by graphic designer Sandra Smulders from Gouda.
The designs on the stamps incorporate the goals of World Animal Day, the organisation behind the international celebration of "World Animal Day" to increase awareness of the problems animals can get into and of the fact that all of us can do something about it.
Based on this, the designer chose the theme "Help Us?" as the common theme for her design.
Different shades of green – derived from the colours on the World Animal Day logos – were used for the background of the sheet edge.
Technical details:
Issue Date: 04.10.2022
Designer: Sandra Smulders – Vormgoed, Gouda
Process: Offset
Colours: cyan, magenta, yellow, black
Size:
Stamp Size: 30.00 mm x 40.00 mm (w x h),
Sheet Size: 170.00 mm x 122.00 mm (w x h)
About the designer:
For PostNL Smulders also designed the Stamp Day 2022, 2021 and 2019 stamp sheets, the Back to the 20th Century and Trains & Journeys (2019) stamp series, the 2018 Children’s Welfare Stamps, the stamp series celebrating 50 years of the Daily Fable (2018) and the 25 years of Fokke & Sukke (2018) stamp series.
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