Friday, November 8, 2019, 18:30

The exhibition "Reconstruction Issue", organised jointly by
the Philatelic and Postal Museum and the Cultural
Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP): Post-War
Series of Greek Stamps for Development", at the
Foundation’s Historical Archive in Tavros.

The exhibition was inaugurated on Friday, 15 November
(18:30), followed by a conference.

Stamps of the Philatelic and Postal Museum and archival
documents from the collections of the PIOP Historical
Archive were linked to a temporary exhibition on the post- war economic reconstruction of the country through the
emergence of key productive sectors within the framework
of the Marshall Plan.

The central core of the exhibition was the series of stamps
“Reconstruction Issue/Edition”, which was released in
September 1951, on designs by I. Kefallinos, and it is the
Greek version of a series of publications from other
European states also, intialled E.R.P. (European Recovery
Program, official title of the Marshall Plan).

Furthermore, it included a special stamp series dedicated to promoting crucial sectors of the Greek economy in dialogue with archival evidence on development. In contrast, critical elements for the art of visual design and stamp printing technique are revealed.
The exhibition will accompany adult workshops and educational activities for children on the engraving technique.

The program of the conference was as follows:

18:30. Greetings
18:45. Dr Myrsini Vardopoulou, painter-engraver of ELTA stamps, The production of stamps in Greece-from the Large Hermes Head to the “Merchant Shipping” of Tassos
19:00. Konstantina E. Botsiou, Associate Professor of Modern History and International Policy and Director of the Centre for Greek and International History (KEDIS), University of Peloponnese, “A picture, is a thousand words: The post-war reconstruction of Greece through the art of stamps.”
19:15. Questions-discussion
19:30. Guided tour of the exhibition