Johannes Gutenberg - Postage Stamps 2

Stamps of the world Johannes Gutenberg

As part of its Millennium commemoration in 2001, Cambodia issued a set of six stamps (Scott #2052-2057), the first of which portrays Gutenberg’s portrait, with a background showing him inspecting a sheet just removed from the press, and a smaller inset showing a pressman working a press. The portrait is a hypothetical one of Johann Gutenberg rendered in 1584. (Cambodia, Scott #2052).

Johannes Gutenberg - Postage Stamps

This souvenir sheet was issued on 20 May 1968 to mark the 500th death anniversary of Gutenberg. Both stamps on the sheet (issued individually as Scott #C69-C70) have the Gutenberg Statue Monument in Mainz as foreground, with the Strasbourg Cathedral in the background on the 45-franc value, and a rendering of what Gutenberg’s printing press might have looked like on the 100-franc value (Dahomey, Scott #C70a).

Stamps of the world Johannes Gutenberg