Historical dolls - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1979 - 15 Pfennig

Historical dolls With motifs of historical dolls, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues six multicolored special postage stamps. The six postage stamps are printed together on a miniature sheet. No special first-day cover envelope Historical Dolls Among all toys, dolls take on a special place as miniaturized images of humans. Playing with the doll, the children creatively shape the environment in which they live, enriching their social environment and enriching their social relationships. Through the design of the doll, society influences the children's play in the sense of its educational and educational goals. Through its wealth of forms, materials and techniques, the doll reflects in its history in many ways the cultural development of human society and bears testimony to the creative abilities of its producers as well as to the very different efforts of society in the play of the child in the course of Story. The bow spans from primitive forms of the doll, which, made from simple materials for their own use, were playing with tribes and peoples on a low level of social development, to the industrially manufactured dolls of our time. The dolls on the special postage stamp miniature sheet have in common that they have been made manually, in manual work for personal use or for sale. From the Upper Lusatia, a traditional potter's area, comes the ceramic figurine (15 Pfennig), which was probably made around 1960 rather than a showpiece piece as Spielgut. Pottery dolls were of great importance, founded by terracottas of Greco-Roman antiquity and continued in the European Middle Ages. In modern times, potters usually made clay toys "in addition" to their actual production program.