Chad

Date2010, 04 VI
Value6x 3000 F
Catalog no.
TopicChopin, Frédéric
Occasion200th birthday anniversary.
Description4 sheetlets, containing one stamps with a photograph or painted portrait of Chopin and 1 sheet containing 2 stamps.
1st sheetlet: Chopin and his pupil and friend Delfina Potocka, painted by Sry Scheffer.
2nd sheetlet: In the center portrait of Chopin by Maria Wodzinska in 1835. Name not correct written as Wodzinski.On the margin persons, familiar to Chopin.
3th sheetlet: photograph of Chopin by L.A. Bisson and a small copy of a painting of George Sand, his lover. On the margin a portrait of the couple painted by Ludwik Wawrynkiewicz in 1970, after portraits by Eugéne Delacroix.
4th sheetlet: portrait of Chopin. On the margin: Polish nobleman and women, living in France as refugees, and Napoleon, who had nothing to do with Chopin.
Sheet: contains 2 stamps, a portrait of Chopin and a portrait of Chopin with his pupil and friend Delfina Potocka. The connecting label (no stamp!) shows the portrait of Pope John Paul II.
This issue doesn't have postal value and has been printed especially for collectors.