Czech 2018 "Eduard Storch"
| Issue Date | 04.04.2018 |
| ID | Michel: 975, Scott: 3750, Stanley Gibbons: ?, Yvert et Tellier: 880 Category: Ot |
| Design | Zdenek Danek |
| Stamps in set | 1 |
| Value | 19 CZK - Eduard Storch |
| Emission/Type | commemorative |
| Issue place | Ostromer |
| Size (width x height) | 40 mm x 23 mm |
| Layout | Sheet of 50 stamps |
| Products | FDC x1 |
| Paper | |
| Perforation | 12 x 12 |
| Print Technique | Offset lithography |
| Printed by | Post Printing House |
| Quantity | |
| Issuing Authority | Czech Post |
On April 4, 2018 Post Authority of Czech Republic issued a stamp to commemorate the birthday of Eduard Storch with pair of mammoth in the background.
The stamp portrays Eduard Storch illuminated by the light of the fire in a prehistoric cave and an imaginary view from the cave with an outlined prehistoric mammoth. The index.html|Czechia motif of the first day cover is a mammoth. The First-Day-of-Issue Postmark uses the motif of a wedge-shaped hammerstone.
Eduard Storch was a Czech pedagogue, archaeologist and writer, known for novels set in prehistoric Bohemia during Stone and Bronze Age.
His most famous novel is "Mammoth Hunters" (1918, Lovci mamutů) set 30,000–20,000 years ago among people of Gravettian culture. Several of the books were illustrated by Zdeněk Burian.
Eduard Storch was born in Ostromer on 10 April 1878. He graduated from the grammar school and teacher’s college in Hradec Kralove.
He taught at many schools in eastern and northern Bohemia. He conducted paedagogical research and published the results in the Nova doba magazine. From 1903 to his retirement in 1938, he lived in Prague but was long denied the final appointment as a civil servant for political reasons. After World War I, he was appointed as a school inspector in Bratislava in 1919-1921. Storch was a very versatile man.
As a teacher, he tried to combine education with outdoor activities, such as a camp for children and parents on Prague’s Libensky island. He also gave swimming and skating lessons, led a scout troop, organised and led many ski courses for teachers and children.
Storch was a keen archaeologist. He gained the necessary knowledge by self study and later by his own archaeological research and practical experience. He conducted most of his archaelogical surveys in Prague and around Lobec in the Melnik region. He was also a writer, educator and journalist. Eduard Storch died in Prague on 25 June 1959.
Products and associated philatelic items
| FDC (clean and circulated) | First-Day-of-Issue Postmark | |
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References
- Technical details: Czech Post, Colnect.
- Eduard Storch: Wikipedia.
Acknowledgement
- Many thanks to Dr. Peter Voice from Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Western Michigan University, for reviewing the draft page .