Awards, medals and diplomas

1966 World's Most Beautiful Stamp Award

One of the sets gathered in this sub-collection contains awards, medals and diplomas won by stamp exhibits displayed by the Czechoslovak and later Czech Post (represented by the Postal Museum) at worldwide events since the early 1920s. The other set includes awards, medals and diplomas for world's most beautiful stamps, best print quality and unique printing technology, won at international events.

The oldest preserved prize was awarded at the 1923 Brno Exhibition Fair. Most of the materials date back to the 1960s to 1980s.

The first Czechoslovak stamp winning the world's most beautiful stamp award Grand Premio Napoli dell'Arte Filatelica 1967 was a stamp from the 1966 issue 30th Anniversary of the International Brigades in Spain with a transposition of Pablo Picasso's Guernica engraved by Josef Herčík (POFIS catalogue number 1543). Czech stamp design won a gold medal for a sheet of two stamps from the 1994 issue EUROPA - Discoveries: 740th Anniversary of birth of Marco Polo, designed by Adolf Born and engraved by Miloš Ondráček (POFIS catalogue number 36-37). The CZK 6 stamp from the issue Works of Art on Postage Stamps: Luděk Marold's Parisienne engraved by Miloš Ondráček (POFIS catalogue number 96) won the best print quality award at the 1996 International Stamp Printers Conference.

  • Silver medal and diploma - Cobehavn 2009
  • 1966 World's Most Beautiful Stamp Award 1966 World's Most Beautiful Stamp Award
  • 1994 World's Most Beautiful Stamp Award 1994 World's Most Beautiful Stamp Award