Stamp of the Nazi-German "Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren" (= Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia); 1940; "supplement issue" to the definitive serie "Lime leaf and Landscapes"; depicted is the stamp DRBM Michel No. 60 with the central motive of a view to the "Sala Terrena" of the "Waldstein-Palais" (Czech: "Valdštejnský pálac") in Prague. (original German name: "Friedländer Haus" because building-owner and commissioner was the imperial General Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Waldstein (Wallenstein) during the Thirty-Years-War 1618-1648, killing 1634 in Cheb (German: Eger) by one of his own officers, Wallentein was also "Duke of Friedland"), Giovanni Pieroni was architect, mathematician, astronomer and astrological counsellor of Wallenstein.; Giovanni Pieroni was a scholar of Galilei, and built the "Palais Waldstein" in Prague after plans of the architect Andrea Spezza, which was dead during the constuction works) together with the stonecutter-master Zacharias Bussi from Campione d’Italia.; Pieroni gave the early Baroque Palais in Prague an own characteristical note in the style of the Mannerism.; His building elements shown a remarkable resemblance with the Ligurian architecture.; The Loggia of the Palais in Prague is very similar to the Loggia of the Cathedral of Livorno, which was also created by Giovanni Pieroni. The bronze sculptures in the garden of the Palais in Prague are a work of the Dutch sculptor Adriaan de Vries (1545 or 1556 – 1626). Many of these was stolen by Swedish military as War Prey during the pillage of Prague in 1648.; Any of these one can see today in Stockholm.; The Palais in Prague was until to 1945-1948 possession of the family "von Waldstein" (until of the expropriation) and is since 1992 official Seat of the Senat of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.; The stamp is showing as central motive the "Sala terrena" (= ground-level hall) of this Palais with a part of the garden.; This stamps is from the time of the Nazi-Protectorate "Bohemia and Moravia" 1939-1945.; The Nazi-protectorate "Bohemia and Moravia" was erected at 15. März 1939 and existed until to 8. Mai 1945, although the old Nazi-stamps could official be used until 16. Mai 1945 according to an ordinance of the Czechoslovak Postal Administration.; Reasonable for the stamps in the „Protectorate“ was in each case the "Postal Supervision" (German: "Postaufsicht") of the German Empire. Currency until to 8. Mai 1945 was 1 Koruna (German: "Krone") = 100 Haléřů (German: "Heller").; mint stamp
Stamp: Michel: No. 60; Yvert & Tellier: No. 59; Scott: No. 47; AFA: No. 49
Color: blue
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 10 K (Koruna)