Number by catalogue:  Yvert: 5729  

Perforation type: 13 ¼x13 ½

Subject:

14.5 lei. Watermill wheel which is the symbol of the museum ASTRA*.

Topics: Watermills

Perforation: Harrow   Perforation type: 13 ¼x13 ½

Subject:

4 stamps of 14.5 lei. Sheet is decorated by photo of watermill of 1848 year, which wheel is taken as the basis of the logo of the 50th anniversary of the museum. On two sheet labels presents a cross-section drawings of the mill and the mill mechanism.

Additional:

*More than one century and a half ago (1861), in Sibiu, theTransylvanian Association for Romanian Literature and Culture of the Romanians - ASTRA is founded, a cultural organization contemplating, through its Founding Acts, to carry out preservation actions of the Romanian traditional heritage and artistic-cultural manifestations.

"ASTRA" National Museum Complex (Romanian: Complexul Naţional Muzeal "ASTRA") is a museum complex in Sibiu, Romania, which gathers under the same authority four ethnology and civilisation museums in the city, a series of laboratories for conservation and research, and a documentation centre. It is the successor of the ASTRA Museum that has existed in the city since 1905. Its modern life started with the opening of The Museum of Folk Technology in 1964, now The "ASTRA" Museum of the Traditional Folk Civilization.

Size (of sheet, booklet) mm: 180x115

Topics: Watermills