File:LUX 1978 MiNr0969 pm B002.jpg

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Stamp of Luxembourg; 1978; commemorative stamp of the issue "300th Anniversary of Our Lady of Luxembourg"; stamp drawing with the head of the sculpture "Notre Dame du Luxembourg" ; The sculpture is a lime wood carving of an unknown artist created in 1678 (other source 1624) in the style of the baroque.; stamp postmarked
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This statue was used initially by Jesuit monks as propaganda idea of the catholic counter-reformation for the adoration of the Virgin Mary. There were reported several wonder testimonies around this sculpture in 1652. During the reign of Joseph II as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation (reign 1765-1790) it was forbidden to show and any cult in combination with this figure, but in the 19th century this cult arose from new.
Stamp: Michel: No. 969; Yvert & Tellier: No. 920; Scott: 612
Color: multicolored
Watermark: none
Nominal value: 6 F (Francs)
Postage validity: from 18 May 1978 until ?

Stamp picture size: (printed area of a single stamp without signature line): 22.5 x 32.0 mm
Date (first issue day of the stamp)
Source scan of original
Author "P&T Luxembourg" of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
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Picture description Head of the sculpture "Our Lady of Luxembourg" (1624)
First day of issue
Publisher "P&T Luxembourg" of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
Design Unknown authorUnknown author
Printer "Helio Courvoisier S.A.", La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland)
Printing technique Photogravure
Circulation 1,000,000
Perforation Comb perforation, K 11¾
MICHEL Nr. Luxemburg, Nr. 969
SCOTT Nr. Luxembourg, No. 612

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