Montenegro’s 2021 stamps
Montenegro’s post office does an excellent job in presenting their stamps and covers. Not only is the site easy to wander around, they also supply high quality images, (including cancels). It’s nice being able to super size a stamp and examine it in detail. Many thanks to Montenegro’s post office staff.
I’m pleased with this article, mostly because I was able to source some decent links about topics and designers. There are familiar themes among the stamp below, including the Tokyo Olympics, the EUROMED competition, EURO Endangered national wildlife and stamp day. As well, you’ll find some rich pickings of Montenegrin history and culture. I hope you enjoy exploring the various stories each stamp tells as much as I do. I spend quite a bit of time with each country, learning a bit about their history and picking the most accessible links.
I have to admit, I also enjoyed poking around Montenegro post’s news releases. They present a strong mix of modern/new info with an appreciation for past mail history. If you have a translate extension on your browser, head over to this bulletin – October 1st – the day the first correspondent was sent – postacg.me. It offers up a bit of early Montenegro postal history.
The idea of creating a correspondence comes from Professor Emmanuel Herrmann, an economics professor from Vienna, who in January 1869 was the first to visit Vienna. Since 2010, it is publishing an article that will result in the first corresponding card appearing. In his article, Professor Herman says the time and effort required for the letter does not always correspond to the importance and scope of the message being transmitted. At the same time, he recommends a simpler and cheaper model for delivering short messages.
The Post Office enthusiastically embraced this idea. In the same year, the first correspondence card (Correspondenz – cards) was sent in October. Pošta Crne Gore
Anyway, I’ve put Montenegro on my “watch” list now. Both the topics and the designs are appealing, as well as the images they supply. I look forward to lurking around Pošta Crne Gore.
February releases
Živko Nikolić 1941-2001
Series: Art in Montenegro through the ages
1 stamp, sheet of 20, FDC, cancel
Živko Nikolić was a film and television director and screenwriter
This 2021 article, Dusan Kovacevic: Zivko Nikolic won the bet with eternity – CDM, has an interesting perspective on Nikolić. Google Translate offers an okay translation, a bit clumsy, but still very readable. It’s a decent introduction to the man for those unfamiliar with his work.
Designers: Adela Zejnilović & Romana Pehar
Award winning Graphic artist Zejnilović art often focuses on typography and lettering. This interest includes preserving Montenegro’s history and culture through it’s written documents and posters. Her 2012 Master’s thesis was titled Montenegro in Letter – Personal to Official, which developed 3 typefaces Octoih, Serdari and Njegosh, based on old manuscript writing.
Pehar maintains a Tumbler account that showcases some of her artwork Romana Pehar (tumblr.com). You don’t need an account to view it.
Umjetnica svoj postupak gradi u vremenu svakodnevnog nastanka novih fontova, a polazište za njihovo kreiranje nalazi u kulturnoj istoriji – originalnom rukopisu “Gorskog vijenca” koji se čuva u Njegoševom muzeju – Biljardi na Cetinju, dajući tako, svojim autorskim radom, dizajnerski omaž Petru II Petroviću Njegošu.
The artist builds her work in the time of daily creation of new fonts, and finds the starting point for their creation in cultural history – the original manuscript of the “Mountain Wreath” which is kept in njegoševo museum – Biljardi on Cetinje, thus giving, with his author’s work, a design omeuvre to Petar II Petrović Njegoš. “Font Njegoš” on the ministry building (vijesti.me)
Release date: Feb. 28, 2021
Svetlana Kana Radević, architect
Series: Art in Montenegro through the ages
1 stamp, sheet of 20, FDC, cancel
Spomenik Database | Profile for Svetlana Kana Radević
Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 | MoMA
Designers: Adela Zejnilović & Romana Pehar
Release date: Feb. 28, 2021
March
Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Activity Day
1 stamp, sheet of 20, FDC, cancel
Designer: Adela Zejnilović
Release date: March 8, 2021
Fauna Eurasian Otter (Lutra Lutra)
1 stamp, sheet of 8, FDC, cancel
Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) | IUCN/SSC Otter Specialist Group
Designer: Romana Pehar
Release date: March 15, 2021
April
200 Year Anniversary of Duke Elijah Plamenac’s Birth
1 stamp, sheet of 20, FDC, cancel
Designer: Adela Zejnilović
Release date: April 15, 2021
May
Europe – Endangered wildlife in the land of Tivat solila
1 stamp, souvenir sheet, FDC, cancel
The Area of Solila is located in the wetlands section of the coastal belt of tivat bay and captures an unused flood area in the area of Grbalje polje.
In the flora and vegetation of the Montenegrin littoral, the Area of Solila is recognized by the vegetation inhabited by salty wet habitats. Since these complex types of natural vegetation on a muddy-clay surface have already disappeared on most habitats on the eastern Adriatic coast, this preservation of the compactness of the Tivat salt salt area as a safe habitat for halophyte vegetation stands out as a special ecological challenge. In the territory of Tivat salts, 14 representatives of amphibians and reptiles were registered.
So far, 111 bird species have been registered on the Solili, representing more than 20% of the total number of species of European ornithophaune. Salts are the habitat of numerous endangered species and are protected as a special flora-faunist reserve.
Montenegro post office
Designer: Romana Pehar
Pehar is a painter from Kotor. You can see more of his work on his Tumbler site Romana Pehar (tumblr.com)
Special Nature Reserve Tivat Saline | Parks Dinarides (discoverdinarides.com)
See all the EUROPA 2021 stamps.
Release date: May 9, 2021
Nature protection Trnovačko Lake
1 stamp, sheet of 20, FDC, cancel
TRNOVAČKO LAKE – heritage-bih-mne
Designer: Adela Zejnilović
Release date: May 25, 2021
June
XXXII Tokyo Olympics 2020
1 stamp, sheet of 8, FDC, cancel
See all Tokyo Olympic stamps.
Designer: Nikoleta Corović
Interesting article featuring Corović’s work Five Young Artists “put corruption in a museum” – EUIC Podgorica
Release date: June 16
July
1 stamp, sheet of 5, FDC, cancel
THE OLD TOWN OF BUDVA – Living in Montenegro 🙂 (montenegro-for.me)
Opština Budva | Zvanična prezentacija
Designer: Romana Pehar
Release date: July 12, 2021
EUROMED – Earrings from ancient Budva
1 stamp, FDC, cancel
“earrings with the representation of oxen heads made of gold and granite, dating back to the 4th-3rd century, the Hellenic period” Pošta Crne Gore
See all the EUROMED stamps.
Designer: Romana Pehar
Release date: July 12, 2021
October
Joy of Europe
1 stamp, sheet of 20, FDC, cancel
Designer: Radisav Stijović
Stijović was one of the winners of the European Solidarities 2018 Solidarities contest.
You can see a bit of his art in this brief article Young graphic artists on show in Croatia (vijesti.me) and here University of Montenegro (ucg.ac.me)
Release date: October 7, 2021
Montenegrin Academy of Science and Arts 50 Yrs
1 stamp, sheet of 20, FDC, cancel
Crnogorska akademija nauka i umjetnosti (canu.me)
Designer: Adela Zejnilović
Release date: October 12, 2021
November
Historical heritage
2 stamps, 2 FDCs, cancel, 2 sheets of 20
- Petar I Petrović Njegoš
- Clock tower in Podgorica
Designer: Alexandra Drecun
Release date: November 10, 2021
Seafaring Battle of Lepanto
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, sheet of 8
The Battle of Lepanto took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of southern European Catholic maritime states, decisively defeated the main fleet of the Ottoman Empire in five hours of fighting on the northern edge of the Gulf of Corinth, off western Greece. The Ottoman forces sailing westwards from their naval station in Lepanto (Turkish language: İnebahtı; Greek: Ναύπακτος or Έπαχτος Naupaktos or Épahtos) met the Holy League forces, which had come from Messina, Sicily, where they had previously gathered.
The victory of the Holy League prevented the Ottoman Empire expanding further along the European side of the Mediterranean. Lepanto was the last major naval battle in the Mediterranean fought entirely between galleys and has been assigned great symbolic importance by Catholic and other historians. Battle of Lepanto | Military Wiki | Fandom
Release date: Adela Zejnilović
Release date: November 30, 2021
December
75 years Mladost Orphanage
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, sheet of 20
Children’s Home Youth White Herceg New Montenegro – Home (dombijela.me)
Designer: Romana Pehar
Release date: December 1, 2021
Stamp day – Pero Šoć (1884 – 1966)
1 stamp, sheet of 20, FDC, cancel
Read more about Pero Šoć On the subterramation of the Montenegrin people and the struggle for a free and independent Montenegro (1918-1931) (portalanalitika.me) and Montenegrin Minister Dr. Pero Djurov Soc on the Serbian occupation and annexation of Montenegro in 1918. | Topical (aktuelno.me). Use Google translate.
Designer: Adela Zejnilović
Release date: December 15, 2021
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