Znaky Republiky Československé

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Káva Hag/Kaffee Hag : Znaky Republiky Československé – Wappen der Tschechoslowakischen Republik

Album information :

Issued by : Káva Hag, Mariánske Lázné/ Kaffee Hag, Marienbad
Date of issue : 1933
Number of stamps/cards : 181
Image variants : 8 different images, many images issued in Czech or in Czech/German. Total 285 different images known.

Company

For information on the company, see the overview of Coffee Hag albums.

Album

The album ‘Znaky Republiky Československé – Wappen der Tschechoslowakischen Republik' was issued around 1933.

The Czechoslovak album was published by Grafických Umĕlechkých Závodů v. Neubert a synové, Praha-Smíchov (Graphischen Kunstanstalten v. Neubert und Söhne, Prag-Smíchov). The authors were Vilém Klein (Wilhelm Klein) and Anton Morávek.
The whole album is written in both Czech and German. The album has been published in two versions : a simple and a luxury edition. The luxury edition has a hard-cover in colour and a cardboard case. The luxury edition also has 6 more pages with the regional arms.

The album is published as Part 1, but a second part was never published.

The album contains 180 stamps with images, which are numbered separately in each section. The album is divided in chapters per Region, with the Regional arms on a separate pag (in the luxury edition only), followed by again the Regional arms, the regional capital and, alphabetically, the other towns and cities in the Region. The Regions are: Bohemia, Moravia, Silezia, Slovakia and Carpathorussia.

The back of the images shows the blason in both German and Czech.