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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