Theme of the stamp
The stamps in the miniature sheet are arranged as pages of a stamp album containing significant Czechoslovak and Czech stamps.
Czechoslovak postage stamps have been issued from 18 December 1918 until now. The 100th anniversary of the first Czechoslovak stamp will be celebrated in 2018. The first Czechoslovak stamps were designed by artists such as Alfons Mucha (designer of the first Czechoslovak stamp), Max Švabinský, Jakub Obrovský, Vratislav Hugo Brunner, Jaroslav Benda, Karel Seizinger, and engraved by Karel Seizinger, Bohumil Heinz, Jaroslav Goldschmied, Eduard Karel, Jan C. Vondrouš, Karel Wolf, and other engravers. The first Czechoslovak stamps were designed by Alfons Mucha as definitive stamps depicting Prague Castle. Czechoslovak and Czech stamp design boasts the work of best graphic designers and traditional printing methods. This combination makes it one of the best stamp designs in the world. Czechoslovak stamps were designed by leading graphic artists, painters and engravers, such as Oldřich Kulhánek, Karel Svolinský, Jiří Švengsbír, Cyril Bouda, Ladislav Jirka, Josef Herčík and Bedřich Housa.
Method of printing
multicoloured offset