Catholic - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1952 - 1 Shilling

This stamp was intended to stimulate the establishment of correspondence relations between Austrian and foreign schoolchildren. It shows as a brand motif a girl's head on a tinted background in a simple frame, laterally surrounded by leaves jewelry. After the Second World War, the idea arose to give the cross-border postal service in the service of the reconciliation of peoples educational importance. Parallel to the tradition of the Red Cross youth, the change of class and individual letters to teaching objectives has always been maintained, but above all served foreign language teaching. More meaningful was the educational purpose of the international school letter change. As a result, major international organizations, such as UNESCO, have long advocated the creation of a youth postage stamp. The Austrian Post and Telegraph Administration recognized the great importance of this suggestion and therefore in 1952 was the first country to issue such a mark.