Document Type : Original Article
Author
Faculty of Arts - University of Menoufia
Abstract
The commemorative stamp is a historical record of a state with all its
events and important events over time. Therefore, it is an important source of
information that must be preserved and its historical, future and current
importance highlighted.
Over the years, Egyptian stamps will remain a memory that bears
Egyptian history with all its events, personalities and attitudes, and reflects the
nature of the age for future generations.
The Egyptian commemorative postage stamps are a record of the most
important events that Egypt has experienced, whether historical or militant, over
thousands of years. It also commemorates the personalities who played a great
role in Egypt's modern and contemporary history.
The study aims at identifying the reality of Egyptian commemorative
postage stamps as a source of non-traditional information, and the numerical,
qualitative and linguistic trends of these stamps. The study applied 1439 Egyptian
commemorative postage stamps. The descriptive analytical method was used.
The bibliographic approach was used to study numerical trends And the quality of
Egyptian postage stamps.
One of the most important results of the study is that the nature of the
commemorative postage stamp is an important source of non-traditional
information for information about ) the name of the country and the price of the
stamp in Arabic only or in Arabic and English together, The name of a person, a
particular event, a particular occasion, or an institution. A small term may be
written to describe a specific person or event. The name of the graphic designer
or painter may be placed on a character, graphic design Design, symbol or form
of a particular event, occasion or person, Sometimes watermarks or invisible
signatures are placed in order to protect the character from imitation(
The number of Egyptian commemorative stamps was also counted in
1439 stamps from 1925 to 2017. The distribution of the stamps was calculated
according to the first and second deciles of the Dewey decimal classification. The
researcher also classified the Egyptian postage stamps in another form, Which
covers national and national events and events and national and international
celebrations and championships, came in first place with 29.1% with 419
commemorative stamps. Second, we find the commemorative stamps covering
the figures (national, scientific, artistic and religious) with 28.1% And the third
place, we find the commemorative stamps covering the achievements and projects by 21.7% with 312 commemorative stamps. In the fourth place we find
the commemorative stamps that cover historical monuments and tourist
landmarks by 17.9% with 257 commemorative stamps. Covers folk arts and
crafts. By 3.3% with 47 commemorative stamps.
The Egyptian postage stamps were divided according to the dates of their
publication to varying periods of time since 1925 - 2017.
According to the language, Egyptian commemorative stamps, which were
written in Arabic only, were equivalent to 1001 characters by 69.6%. Egyptian
postage stamps written in both Arabic and English were 360 characters with
25.1% The Egyptian, written in both Arabic and French, understood 77
characters by 5.4%. One Egyptian souvenir stamp was written in Arabic and
Russian.
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