Christmas 2014, snowman - postage stamp mint never hinged, catalog no. 3111, Germany

A body made of snow globe, the hat, two buttons made of charcoal and the mole as a nose - done. The snowman is popular, but also a figure full of contradictions. He quickly melts in the thaw and yet is immortal as a figure. Whoever remembers their own child friends through him becomes mischievous. As a symbol of winter joys, we are unreservedly inclined to it, but as a symbol of transitoriness and, more recently, climate change, it also creates mixed feelings. Still a childhood dream today and water tomorrow.