Johannes Gutenberg

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1000 Francs CFA - Benin  Johannes Gutenberg    1999




500 Francs CFA  2005

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Gutenberg Mainz, Germany, Silver Medal 1840, Gutenberg Printing Press 400th Anniversary.




Around the Gutenberg monument in Mainz by Thorwaldsen: "DISSIMVLARE · VIRVM · HVNC · DISSIMVLARE · DEVM · EST"/ Around Gorgoneion on shield: "ARTE · SVA · LITERAS · AVXIT IN · MEMOR · SECVLAR · TYPOGRPHIAE · MDCCCXL".




That is the last of the 'lost posts'.

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In the 1970s and 1980s, a New Zealander named Bruce Grenville began a hoax, claiming to have founded the Sultanate of Occussi-Ambeno. He invented a history for the Sultinate and produced many cinderella stamps for his creation. On 13 October 1977 he produced these stamps to mark the 600th anniversary of the birth of Gutenberg.

190 30¢ Violet & red

191 75¢ Yellow & blue

192 $1.35 Brown & red

193 $3 Silver & light blue

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1900, Nurnberg (City). "500th Birthday of Johannes Gutenberg" Medal.

Obverse: Draped and caped bust of Johannes Gutenberg 3/4 right. Legend:  JOHANNES GUTENBERG * MCCCC-MDCCCC *
Reverse: Three coat-of-arms (German Empire above / Nurnberg below), bound together with a band, above date (1900). Legend: * Z. 500 JÄHR. GEBURTSFEIER GUTENBERG'S * D.NÜRNBERGER BUCHDRUCKER * Translated:  "For the 500th Birthday Jubilee of Gutenberg, the book printer of Nurnberg."

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10 Mark coin from the German Democratic Republic in 1968 for the 500th anniversary of the death of Johann Gutenberg

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In the early 1930s, Swiss firm Chocolat Tobler edited a series of loose sheets which included stamps and biographies of famous men and women from ancient times to recent. 

Here is the Gutenberg card

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Issued on 11 November 1968    5 Mark (500th death year printer Johannes Gutenberg)




Front: Emblem (eagle looking left)
above (value) 5 between (year) 19 and 68
legend: (state name) BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND
(bottom, currency between spacers/dots) •DEUTSCHE MARK•
mint mark (inside 5) G (Karlsruhe)

Back: Johannes Gutenberg
(front-right)
* c. 1395 Mainz, Electorate of Mainz Holy Roman Empire
† February 3, 1468 (aged 73) Mainz, Electorate of
Mainz, Holy Roman Empire
legend: (name, left) JOHANNES (right) GUTENBERG •
(bottom-right, death year) +1468

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Homage to Gutenberg                 Brazil   24 June 1900

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Germany Silver Medal Johannes Gutenberg Mainz 1440 1940       500 years of book printing



Körper und Stimme leiht die Schrift dem stummen Gedanken. Durch der Jahrhunderte Strom trägt ihn das redende Blatt.

Translation - Writing lends body and voice to the silent thought, The speaking paper carries it through the centuries-old stream.

Part of a quote from Friedrich von Schiller

[julius stafford-baker]

With regards to the invention of printing one might look more closely at how the Romans branded vineyard names on their wine barrels.  It looks like Bembo caps about 48 point!  With red  hot bronze stamps .  Now I wonder how those stamps were made . ...

[Dave Hughes]

With regards to the invention of printing one might look more closely at how the Romans branded vineyard names on their wine barrels.  It looks like Bembo caps about 48 point!  With red  hot bronze stamps .  Now I wonder how those stamps were made . ...

I know the Romans weren't the most prolific photographers, but is there a picture of one anywhere? A quick "Google" didn't come up with much!

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Stollwerck Schocolade collector's card from 1931       Series: The German Rhine, picture 34      Gutenberg's lever printing press

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C. H. Knorr AG,    Collector's cards from from various dates, the earliest being c.1900     

CARD 1      Gutenberg, first hand printing press around 1430



CARD 2      Gutenberg, wooden printing press 1600




CARD 3      Gutenberg, Stanhope hand press 1798




CARD 4      Gutenberg, first treadle press invented by Hobkinson 1805-1814



CARD 5      Gutenberg, modern high-speed letterpress press, 1829




CARD 6      Gutenberg, rotary press invented by Marioni, 1867-1900

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Bronze medal 1818, Germany   Johannes Gutenberg.

Reverse translates as 'a mogul was born in Germany'
born 1400   died 1468

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Switzerland advertising brand advertising token around 1950 Bern / From Gutenberg to Bubenberg




GOTT GRUSS DIE KUNST = GOD BLESS THE ART