1999 Postal Cards

    Jan 4     Capital of Czech Republic Prague Praga '98

    March 14  Business postcard for domestic mail - Numeral "4"

    April 14  Business postcard for international mail - Numeral "7"

    April 14  Triathalon/Olympics - 100th anniversary of Czech Olympic Commitee

    April 27  IRBA '99

    May 5     BRNO 2000 - Congress Center, site of the show

    May 12    Railway Post Ending

    May 12    500th Anniversary of paper production

    May 31    60th Anniversary of Society for Czechoslovak Philately

    July 2    PhilexFrance '99 - Horse and Carriage

    July 2    PhilexFrance '99 - Air France Jet

    July 8    Peter Parler, Master Builder 600th Anniversary

    Aug 27    Stamp Fair in Riccione, Italy

    Sep 8     BRNO 2000 - Building with 1930 date

    Sep 8     BRNO 2000 - Building with 1995 date

    Sep 8     Prague - ROKU 2000

    Sep 29    BRNO 2000 "Celostatni Vystava Postovnich Znamek"

    Oct 9     100th Anniversary of Holesov High School

    Oct 22    Philatelia KOLN '99

    Oct 29    Sindelfingen '99 International Stamp Fair

    Nov 13    KOSMOS '99

    Dec 18    1899-1999 100 let Potrubni Posty
 

 2000 Postal Cards

    Jan 20    BRNO 2000 - Day of FIP and FEPA

    Jan 20    BRNO 2000 - Congress Center, site of the show

    Jan 20    BRNO 2000 - Day of Young Philatelists

              Prague - ROKU 2000 with 5Kc Stamp Image

              Numeral 5

              100 Years of Olympic Games - Jarmlia Kratochvilova

              100 Years of Olympic Games - Ludvik Danek

              100 Years of Olympic Games - Hans Zdrazila

              100 Years of Olympic Games - Kveta Jerlova

              100 Years of Olympic Games - Fotbaliste 1980

              100 Years of Olympic Games - Vera Caslavska

              100 Years of Olympic Games - Jiri Skobla
 
 
 

    These cards have had holograms added to them to prevent counterfeits, which has been a problem with recent Czech Postal Cards. They all have the same hologram, a rectangle with the post horn emblem of the Czech Post, when moved the emblems appear to change to flying pigeons. The hologram is in different positions on some cards and is not part of the stamp image. The left side sometimes has a cachet that commemorates an event. It appears there will be more issued and I will list them here as I get information about them.

    These cards also exist printed for private purposes, but with the required permission from the Czech Postal Service. There are quite a few of these "Private Issues" and the quantity is very low, usually a couple of thousand or so. They are printed on cards that originally didn't have any cachet printed on them.

    At the risk of sounding like I won an Oscar, I would like to thank two collectors who have provided much of the information that is presented here, like issue dates, postcard images and translation into english. They are Ulrich Schmitt and Dick Dehner.