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15 November 2015

Sunday Stamps II - 48

2012, Canada,
Design Manager, Alan Leduc; Designer, Paprika
Photography by Grace Gladhill

This stamp of Louise Arbour was issued for the series "Difference Makers" in May 2012. Before being appointed  High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations, where she was a chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, Ms Arbour was a Supreme Court Justice for Ontario and Canada. She retired in 2004.

5 comments:

Bob Scotney said...

For some reason or another we do not seem to issue stamps of famous people like this. The only live people on British stamps seem to be royalty.

FinnBadger said...

I like the simplicity of this stamp design... the personality still shines through.

Mail Adventures said...

It is not the first time I read it, but I really love the title of the series "Difference makers".

Joy said...

I like the use of pointillism, sharpening the further away I look.

Heleen said...

I agree with the previous comments: the pointillistic design is great in its simplicity, and a serie named 'Difference makers' is so good and interesting!
Thank you for sharing!