Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm stamps from Wohlfahrtsmarken series

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Germany has been issuing semi-postal charity stamps since 1949.

Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm are among such series of stamps. The following have been issued between 1959 and 1967.

Wohlfahrtsmarken Brothers Grimm Fairy Takes semi-postal stamps
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  • 1959 – Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm.
  • 1960 - Little Red Riding Hood
  • 1961 - Hansel and Gretel
  • 1962 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • 1963 - The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats
  • 1964 - The Sleeping Beauty
  • 1965 - Cinderella
  • 1966 - The Frog Prince
  • 1967 – Frau Holle
The stories by Grimm brothers weren't originally compiled for kids. It was more of an academic search for the cultural/linguistic underpinning of the nation-state leading up to German unification.

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