Philatelist exhibition

"MINING ON POLISH POSTAGE STAMPS". Polish Domestic Philatelic Exhibition "KRAKOW 2008".

Stamp collecting is a noble passion connecting vast numbers of collectors from all over the world. The collectors carefully bring together interesting series of stamps issued in various countries. Very often they prepare occasional exhibits presented at various shows and exhibitions.  

Stamps are a wonderful record of the mining industry. Not only they show the mineral deposits or cultural and historic heritage, but they also present the achievements of the modern mining industry.  

The Polish Domestic Philatelic Exhibition "Krakow 2008" presents the mining industry in Polish stamps beginning from the twenties, when  Poland obtained independency after the World War I, up to this day. Those stamps show the variety of motives, such as for example panoramas and landscapes, mining installations, silhouettes of miners at work, mine shaft towers, machines and apparatus or miner's lamps. They also document various events associated with the mining industry, congresses and conferences, anniversaries and cultural and sporting events. The motif of crossed miner's hammers (the so called „plane" and "iron") being the emblem of the mining profession as well as famous people associated with the mining industry and the effects of the miners' work - the extracted minerals - also often appear on the stamps.

Surely both the post cards and the occasional seals and other postal products will be attractive souvenirs for the Congress delegates.