GPS June 2020

Images 8a & 8b. (8a). The painting of the village Skrylevshchina (СКРЕЛЕВЩИНА)
in this showcase compared the states of the village formerly (РАНЬШЕ, left) and now
(ТЕПЕРЬ, right). (8b). The right picture was used as a model for the design of the 10
rouble stamp.
Evidently, the other stamp illustrations were made from photographs
or paintings of Sloboda or the neighboring area, too. The German philatelist
Horst Grieger was able to inspect a private photo album of PAW
commander Albert Kost a few years ago [12]. Included in the album was a
photograph of the so-called “town hall” of Sloboda that is almost congruent
to the stamp design of the 2 rouble value, as well as another photograph
illustrating a house-building scene like it is shown on the 50 kopek stamp
(Images 9a & 9b). This is proof that the stamps were designed in Sloboda.
The PAW team of artists who also created all the paintings and model
sceneries of the exhibition lorry, consisted of the set designer Friedrich
Hundertmark (Image 10), the draftsman Peter Langhoff, and the artists
Otto Laible, Max Rupp, Hans Hartmann, Georg Kubicek, plus an artist
named Zeume. The stamp designer was certainly among this group.
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