• Local museums

    Luxembourg  2020.12.08

    In issue: Stamp(s): 5    Booklet(s): 1   

    Printing: multicoloral offset on self-adhesive paper

    Issued in: booklets of 10 stamps of two series

    Printable Version

  • Perforation type: 12 ½x12 ½

    Subject:

    L50g is a non-nominal stamp, valued 80 eurocents at the time of going on sale.

    Manual stone mortar for grinding mustard seeds.

    Topics: Mortars and grinding stones

  • Additional:

    The new stamp booklet pays special attention to the second part of the local museums in Luxembourg and takes us on a journey through the Grand Duchy to discover the traditional production process of various products, especially handicrafts.

     

    The series includes the following museums:

    National Museum of the Iron Mines - Roumelange

    National Brewery Museum - Wiltz

    Museum of Ceramics - Nospelt

    Museum of Al Mustard Mill - Luxembourg-Pfaffenthal*

    Museum "Duchfabrik" - Esch-sur-Sur

     

    The stamps and the booklet were designed by Luxembourg-based illustrator Julie Wagner, who for this visited all museums and was inspired by the peculiarities of each, identifying for himself their main symbols and fragments for the detailed design of her work.

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    The origins of the Muerbelsmillen (“Mohrfels mill”) date back to the 11th century. Lately and until 1985, it operated as a mustard factory. Today, the site preserves the old mill technology, completed by an exhibition. The visitor discovers the large water wheel rotating in the canal as well as the first floor where grinding was once carried out with the old millstones and gears. A historical film illustrates the operation of the mill and the production of mustard. A separate space is reserved for workshops.

     

    Information was taken from official web-pages of Museum

     

    Size (of sheet, booklet) mm: 278x94

    Topics: Stylized mills Various Watermills