Poland 1940 – Copernicus memorial
In 1900 a monument to Nicolaus Copernicus was set up in the courtyard of his
alma mater, the Collegium Maius (Great College) of the Jagiellonian University
in Cracow. Copernicus is modelled in a cape, holding an armillary sphere. The
statue is not there now, as it was moved to the Witkowski Collegium in nearby
Planty Park in 1953, but this stamp shows how it looked in 1940. As the
inscription “Generalgouvernement” and the Nazi eagle indicate, this stamp was released while Poland was under
German occupation during World War II. As far as I can ascertain, the violet
version was issued in 1941, a year after the green one, by when the printing
plate was showing signs of wear.
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