Postal bird

The postal bird or bird-arrow is the Logotype sucessives state enterprises of the Poste S in France since 1960.

History

Created by the poster artist Guy Georget, this logotype existed in two forms: with five polygons in 1960, then the artist takes it again with three polygons in 1978. The bird stylized point towards the line.

It was used under various colors by postal and telecommunications authorities, then La Poste, and finally the Postal bank created in 2006.

Philately

On the philatelic products, this bird is used for the first time on a Aérogramme emitted in October 1970. The painter Joan Miró signs of it a free reinterpretation for a postage stamp of 1974 announcing the philatelic Exposition Arphila '75 of Paris, the first artistic work created especially to be reproduced on one of the large sizes of the artistic Série.

The bird appears then at the time of events of the life of the postal company. In 1972, it acts as point of pen on two stamps encouraging the use of new the zip code with five digits. In 1981, in a tri-colored scarf, it commemorates the centenary of the National bank of saving. In 1984, it serves in bottom of illustration for the inauguration of postal TGV. The Day of the stamp of 1992 emphasizing the reception in the post offices, it appears with the pediment of that whose photography illustrates the stamp.

As La Poste is partner of the course of the Olympic flame of the Winter Olympics to Albertville, the logotype is used on the stamp of 2,50 francs of November 15th, 1991.

See too

Sources

chronological Element: Chronic of the French postage stamp , Editions Chronicle and La Poste, 2005, ISBN 2205057383, pages 180 (1960), 199 (stamp of 1974) and 203 (1978).
Stamp representing the logotype: Catalog of quotations of stamps of France , ED. Dallay.

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