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Glassblowing Stamps

You have just *got* to take a look at the website that Richard Samuel (using the amusing email address of puntyfun@yahoo.com) has created to show every known postal stamp, throughout the world, of glassblowing and glassblowers!! He also has a very interesting slideshow of these stamps, which you can run through manually, or at timed intervals (5, 10, or 15 seconds). His website shows no less than 30 postal stamps:
  1. Bosnia-Herzegovina - 2000: four glassblowers in front of furnaces
  2. Canada - 1999: Jacks being used to open the lip of a red art-glass piece
  3. Denmark - 1976: Picture of a Gaffer at the Glassblowing Bench, with an assistant nearby
  4. Denmark -1976: A different picture of a Gaffer at the Glassblowing Bench, with an assistant nearby
  5. Denmark - 1976: The assistant is helping the Gaffer put a "Swedish Foot" onto a piece, at the Bench
  6. Denmark - 1976: The Gaffer is blowing into a mold, and the assistant is there to open the mold
  7. Dominica - 2000: A clear footed goblet is shown on a multi-color background
  8. Finland - 1981: Silhouettes of four glassblowers against a large green glass bottle background
  9. Guyana - 1995: Disney (c) Cartoon of Glassblower and Bubblegum blower!
  10. Hungary - 1978: Example (and close-up) of Cut Crystal vase, with a blowpipe in the background
  11. Italy - 1984: Glass Mosaic on the left side, with five pipes/punties warming up in the glassblowing furnace
  12. Italy - 1984: A Glassblower is standing up at the marver, with a decorated glass pitcher and four glasses
  13. Lebanon - 1973: A Glassblower is working on a piece, with two tall pieces shown on the right side
  14. Poland - 1975: A Glassblower is shown blowing into a piece, with the furnace building in the background
  15. Portugal - 1998: 250 Years of Glass Industry (?)
  16. Portugal - 1998: An unusual glass object in the foreground, and a glassblower in the background
  17. Portugal - 1998: The production of glass bottles (three black bottles are shown in the foreground)
  18. Portugal - 1998: Glassblower working with hot glass at the bench is shown with luminous blue glass lights
  19. Spain - 1988: Hot Glass on a punty is being pulled with tongs
  20. Spain - 1988: Sparkling Reflective glass (cullet?) is shown in a small pile
  21. Spain - 1988: Hot Glass is shown at the end of a blowpipe, in a spherical shape
  22. Sweden - 1972: Booklet Cover (not a stamp) showing glassblowing tools (jacks, shears, wood block, wood mold, blowpipe, finished goblet)
  23. Sweden - 1972: Glassblower shown at the bench blowing into a brightly glowing bubble of hot glass
  24. Sweden - 1972: Glassblowers shown actively working blowing and gathering glass
  25. Sweden - 1972: Gaffer shown applying a lip-wrap to a piece, by guiding the punty with diamond shears
  26. Sweden - 1972: Gaffer is using jacks to create an elongated neck and flared lip on a glass piece at the bench
  27. Sweden - 1972: Engraver is holding a glass vase with both hands onto the engraving wheel
  28. Sweden - 1989: Stylized image of a blowpipe and glass sphere rolling on the arm of a glassblowing bench
  29. Syria - 1970: Seated Glassblower shown blowing into a piece, with several tall glass vases in the background
  30. USA - 1972: Colonial American glassblower blowing into a small sphere at a wood glassblowing bench


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