STAMP ISSUES RELATED TO ICAO (1984-1985)
Yemen : 40th Anniversary of ICAO
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Issue date: 20/09/1985
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Winged figure, globe and ICAO emblem.
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Winged figure, globe and ICAO emblem. |
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Winged figure, globe and ICAO emblem. |
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Winged figure, globe and ICAO emblem. |
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Winged figure, globe and ICAO emblem. |
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Chromalin Proofs imperforated – Official booklet with the Ueberreuter seal. Ueberreuter is an Austrian publishing house. Founded as Carl Ueberreuter Verlag in 1946 by Thomas Franz Wilhelm Salzer, today the company is Austria's biggest publisher of non-fiction literature.
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One stamp of this issue (150-fils) was utilized to commemorate the first flight between Sana’a, Yemen and Frankfurt, Germany (with stop in Amman, Jordan) by Lufthansa with a Boeing 727 (Flight LH 627) on 30 March 1986. The cachet on the card shows the Dar-al-Hajar (also named Rock Palace), which is a palace located in the Wadi Dhar valley near Sanaa, capital of Yemen.
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Background: For an unknown reason (maybe a lack of space), the word Civil is missing in name of the Organization on all four stamps of this issue.
Moreover, this set shows a hand-drawn and poor design of the 40th anniversary emblem: the wings are not correctly hooked to the center part of the logo and hence provide an overall uneven aspect of the design. Five (instead of 4) concentric circles are shown. Note related to the design on the stamps and miniature sheet: Man has dreamed about flying with the birds since the beginning of time. In designing these stamps, the artist simply illustrated the connection between the mythology of Icarus and its logical outcome: aviation. |
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