Verigar issue

Verigar is the first postage stamp series issued in Slovenia after the dissolution of the Austria-Hungarian monarchy at the end of WWI.

The stamp series was designed in late 1918 in Ljubljana during the short-lived State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and issued on 3 January 1919 after the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

The stamp design includes the abbreviated name of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs written in Cyrillic and Latin script ("Држава СХС" - "Država SHS"). The stamp design, created by painter Ivan Vavpotič, also includes an image that represents a man who has broken the chains enslaving him; he stands in front of a rising sun. The scene symbolizes the freedom of the Slavic peoples from Austria-Hungary.

The name of the stamp series is derived from the word "veriga", which means "chains" in the Slovenian language.

On 19 March 1993, the Slovenian post issued a new stamp series using the "Verigar" man to commemorate its 75th anniversary.

External links

* [http://www.narmuz-lj.si/slovensko/12_oddelki/uporab_umetnost/zbirke/filatelija.html Slovenian National Museum of Ljubljana pictures of Verigar issue] (text in Slovenian)
* [http://www.posta.si/Namizje.aspx?tabid=213&artikelid=2801 The 1993 issue on the Slovenian Post website] in Slovenian, translated without the text into English. [http://www.posta.si/Namizje.aspx?tabid=388&artikelid=5441]