I noticed on the 1940 Famous American Scientist stamps that there is an image or symbol in the lower left corner that seems to relate to the work that each scientist is best known for (bird for Audobon, medical symbol for Walter Reed, etc.) I don't recognize the symbols on 876, (Luther Burbank, botanist) or 878, (Jane Addams, sociologist). Does anyone know what those symbols are or what they represent?
The symbols for Luther Burbank are crossed twigs, each with a leaf attached. I am puzzled by Jane Addams as well...Maybe wikipedia will have biographical information which will give a hint...
Each category has its own dedicated symbol in the engraving – a scroll, quill pen and inkwell for authors; a winged horse (Pegasus) for poets; the “Lamp of Knowledge” for educators; laurel leaves and the pipes of the Roman god Pan for composers; and inventors had a cogwheel with uplifted wings and a lightning flash to symbolize power, flight, and electricity. The artists and the scientists have multiple symbols. Artists have either a paint palette and brush (for painters), and the sculptors have a stonecutting hammer and chisel. Scientists had the classical symbol of their particular profession.
I tried to figure out what the symbol was under Jane Addams, Sociologist but couldn't. There were no references to it in her wikipedia biography even though a picture of the stamp was included on the page. I also tried to look up sociology, sociological symbols and variations of this using Google images but couldn't find anything. Perhaps there is a stamp collecting reference source that has more information about it.
I have looked all over the internet also, but with no avail, could not come up with what the symbol represented.
I thought about that Philactica and I also saw that Jane Addams was involved in the Women's Peace Society movement. I wondered if the symbol was an early version of the 60's Peace symbol...
No - the one you refer to is the letter Y in a circle for Peace bro etc. from the Woodstock era. Earlier version ! there was no earlier version
I realize what the peace sign is and that it is also too early for the 60s peace sign...What I wondered, as I searched, is whether the halved circle without the 2 angled lines at the bottom was an early version of this sign. It is actually not an upside down Y either...it is a vertical line, halving the circle with 2 angled lines branching off of it to meet the outer circle.
i have looked and search all day, not a clue keeps saying mathamatical sign for on/off not sure how that could be reletive?
OK, For those that are interested here is the stamps and symbols of interest. Scott #876 3¢ Luther Burbank from the Famous Americans set of 1940. The mysterious symbol on the lower left hand corner. Luther Burbank (7 March 1849 – 11 April 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's varied creations included fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. He developed a spineless cactus (useful for cattle-feed) and the plumcot.Burbank's most successful strains and varieties include the Shasta daisy, the Fire poppy, the July Elberta peach, the Santa Rosa plum, the Flaming Gold nectarine, the Wickson plum, the Freestone peach, and the white blackberry. A natural genetic variant of the Burbank potato with russet-colored skin later became known as the Russet Burbank potato. This large, brown-skinned, white-fleshed potato has become the world's predominant potato in food processing. Scott #878 10¢ Jane Addams from the Famous Americans set of 1940. The mysterious symbol on the lower left hand corner. Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace. Beside presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, she was the most prominent[1] reformer of the Progressive Era and helped turn the nation to issues of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, public health, and world peace. She said that if women were to be responsible for cleaning up their communities and making them better places to live, they needed the vote to be effective in doing so. Addams became a role model for middle-class women who volunteered to uplift their communities. She is increasingly being recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy. In 1931 she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The only thing that I can come up with is some of the symbols for philosophy are: Alpha Omega Ying Yang Since both of them are splitting a circle in half, Maybe???? Just trying to make sence of the symbol. Any thoughts???
I think the Alpha Omega is on the track to the answer, just that box, could it have to do with a female due to that dip View attachment 1917
Just went through my Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, A book of 1,000's of very use full pages of date, unless what you need is not there I will keep looking
Me too. No luck. There almost HAS to be some sort of reference to the symbols someplace. Hey, what abut the information printed about them when they was originally released? Wouldn't that explain them to the public? http://www.catawiki.com/catalog/sta...area=60a8de2e39948eb47d4959f0bdd67e69ec47c555
