Friday, February 19, 2010

#069 Romania...Thanks Daniela!


These 2 stamps are from Romanian Postage Stamp Day series issued on Jul.30,2009,commemorating Anghel I. Saligny, 155 Years since his Birth.

Anghel Saligny (19 April 1854 – 17 June 1925) was a Romanian engineer, most famous for designing the Feteşti-Cernavodă railway bridge (1895) over the Danube, the longest bridge in Europe at that time,which is shown on the stamps.

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