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 Alain Martineau
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| General Description : | Serie: 295, Type: R, Stamps in serie: 9 The stamps were issued in sheets of 50 and in small sheet with 9 stamps. The Croatian Post and Telecommunications put on sale the commemorative First Day Cover (FDC) and the First Day Sheet. No. 298: THE ISTRIAN AND DALMATIAN BRACERA (D) The bracera, the coastal cargo sailing-vessel is the most characteristic merchant boat along the Croatian coast of the Adriatic, with sails and oars ad driving-gear, 12 to 17 metres in length, and the carrying capacity of 70 tons. It is considered that the name of the boat is etymologically connected with the name of the island Brač (Brač - bracera). Due to the differences in the specific conditions of the coast and sea, the solution of the form of the bracera on the north Adriatic differs from the solution for the bracera from the south. The essential feature of the Istrian bracera is a proportionally shallow hull with a relatively shallow draught, while the hull of the Dalmatian bracera is markedly deeper. Moreover, the Istrian cargo boats mostly used to have two masts with the headsail and gaffsail, or Lateen sail, like a small cargo boat, trabakul. The Dalmatian cargo boats, braceras, usually had only one mast with a Lateen or head sail, more rarely a gaffsail. On the head stay the braceras had one, sometimes two battens. The bracera, like other boats in the Adriatic, that have for centuries represented the traditional centre of a certain seafaring social community shows the perfection of form of a small boat, achieved in the course of a thousand-year-long evolution. |
| Face value | 1.80 Kuna |
| Catalog code (Michel) | HR 476A |
| Catalog code | Stamp Number HR 376C Yvert et Tellier HR 446 Stanley Gibbons HR 557 AFA number HR 556 Croatian post Inc. HR 298 |
| Series | Croatian ships |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Definitive stamp |
| Print run | 3,210,000 |
| Issue date | 27/08/1998 |
| Designer | Nikola Šiško |
| Paper type | white 102g, gummed |
| Print technique | Multicoloured Offsetprint |
| Printed by | Zrinski - Čakovec |
| Perforation | 14, comb |
| Height | 26.00 mm |
| Width | 36.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
