የእንጨት ማንኪያዎች • Wooden Spoons

EP-Stamp-ID-FIRMA-09342-Wooden-spoons-02

EP-Stamp-ID-FIRMA-09341 Wooden spoons 01

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Atlabachew Redda

Stamp Info

Stamp ID: 1243

Size:
30 x. 40 m.m

Quantity:
100,000

Date of Issue:
November 30, 1987

Denominations:
Birr 0.85, 1.00

Process of Printing:
Lithography in four colors.

Printed by:
CARTORS S.A.

Stamp Introduction

First Day Covers are available at Addis Ababa General Post Office and its branches, Adigrat, Akaki, Arba Minch, Assela, Awasa, Axum, Bahir- Dar, Kebre-Mengist, Debre-Berhan, Debre-Marikos, Debre-Zeit, Dembi-Dolo, Hossana, Dessie, Dilla, Dire Dawa, Fitche, Gambella, Ghion, Ginnir, Robe Bale, Jinka, Gondar, Gore, Harrar, Jijiga, Jimma, Mekele, Mettu, Hagere-Hiwot, Hirna, Nazareth, Negele Borena, Nekemte, Shashemene, Wolaita-Sodo, Assebe Teferi and Yirgalem Post Offices on the day of issue.

Order for stamps and F.D.Cs (in advance payment to the Ethiopian postal Service, Philatelic section. Post office Box 1112 Addis Ababa Ethiopia or to Philatelic Agencies the People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Les Editions R odan Ch. de Waterloo Stwg. 868,870,1180 Brussels, Belgium for Europe, British Isles and the Commonwealth or stamp Values, P.O. Box 4107 Grand Central post Office. New York City. N.Y. 10017 U.S.A. for North., Central and South America.

A spoon is a table implement, bowl-shaped at the end, with a handle varying in length and size. The earliest northern European spoon would seem to have been a splinter of wood. The Greek spoon points to the early and natural use of shells. The ancient Egyptians use various forms of spoons of ivory flint, slate and wood, many of them carved with the symbols of their religion,

The spoons of the Greeks and Romans were chiefly made of bronze and silver, and the handle usually took the form of a spike. Medieval spoons for domestic use were commonly made of horn or wood, but brass, pewter, and «laten» spoons appear to have been common about the 15^th century.

The modern form, with the tip of the bowl narrower than the base and the rounded end of the handle turned down, appeared about 1760.

In Ethiopia various forms of spoons have been used by the Ethiopian people. Spoon; made of horn and wood are still very much used in the various parts of the country.