Austrian postal issue features Ukrainian customs (09/28/97)

Austrian postal issue features Ukrainian customs

VIENNA - The Ukrainian Stamp Collectors Club of Austria, based in Vienna, presented a first-day cover and a special bilingual (German-Ukrainian) cancellation on the occasion of the first day of issue of the second stamp in the seventh set of the Austrian postage stamp series "National Customs and Folkloristic Treasures." On the first day cover reproduced above, Lviv artist Ivan Turetskyi depicts a Ukrainian custom: on the feast of the Transfiguration of Christ (August 19 according to the Julian calendar), fruits, mushrooms, flowers and bread are brought to church to be blessed.

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