Human Rights: Art. 17 & 18
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a core resolution of the U.N. These stamps contain excerpts from Articles 17 and 18 – in English, French, and German. Below is the complete text from those two articles:
Article 17
Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Article 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Note
The top set of stamps shows a clay sculpture from Mexico. It’s by an unknown artist. It’s in the University of Veracruz Museum of Anthropology. The other set of stamps shows a modern art painting called, Windows by the Robert Delaunay of France. It can be found in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Contains 2 spots: own 2 – 2 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
Declaration of Human Rights
✓ |
123 |
4.50s (nov 1991) |
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✓ |
124 |
Human Rights, Article 18 |
7s (nov 1991) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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