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CZECHOSLOVAKIA
1969

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936

Father Brown

20th Century Personalities

June 17, 1969, Scott #1629, 40h
engraved and photogravure, perf 11½×12

G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown.... on-line The Wisdom Of Father Brown

Alec Guiness as Father Brown in The Detective (1954), a film based in part on Chesterton's "The Blue Cross". Cecil Parker was 'the bishop' alias Flambeau.

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the other stamps in the set:

#1628 Pavol Orszagh Hviezdoslav 1849-1921 Slovak writer

#1630 Vladimir Majakovskij 1893-1930 Russian poet

#1631 Henri Matisse 1869-1954 French painter

#1632 Ales Hrdlicka 1869-1943 Czech-born American anthropologist

#1633 Franz Kafka 1883-1924 Austrian writer