(Mi. N.462-64).
The first stamp depicts the first king of Romania Charles I(Carol in Romanian, Karl) and his wife Elizabeth(also a writer known as Carmen Sylva). During the building she wrote in her diary:
"Italians were masons, Romanians were building terraces, the Gypsies were coolies. Albanians and Greeks worked in stone, Germans and Hungarians were carpenters. Turks were burning brick. Engineers were Polish and the stone carvers were Czech. The Frenchmen were drawing, the Englishmen were measuring, and so was then when you could see hundreds of national costumes and fourteen languages in which they spoke, sang, cursed and quarreled on all dialects and tones, a joyful mix of men, horses, cart oxen and domestic buffaloes."
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