Sunday 22 December 2019

Happy Christmas

1988:Christmas Post (Design - Mats Rehnman; Engraver - Zlatko Jakus)
Two birds sing out the joy of Christmas on this FDC, both it and the stamps are created by Mats Rehnman.
The whole delightful sheet and the Christmas scene. 
1995: Christmas
An Post's Christmas theme in 1995 was the illuminated manuscripts of Benedotto Bardone (1460-1531)
considered the last of the great manuscript illuminators.
1980:Christmas Morning (Design - Yvon Laroche of a painting by Frank Charles Hennessey)
Lastly a day to celebrate in church and one of the 43  'Painters of Canada' Christmas serigraphs originally created for Coutts/Hallmark Cards in 1931.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas



Sunday Stamps II theme this week is - Religious Christmas - See It On A Postcard

4 comments:

FinnBadger said...

That set of stamps from 1998 is wonderful. I'd love to see more of this kind of creativity on stamps around the holidays.

Merry Christmas!

violet s said...

The stained glass effect is beautiful on the Swedish set. (As is the intricate star cancellation!)
The Irish ones are so brilliantly coloured.
The Canadian one is ... meh. (in my humble opinion, but I prefer lots of detail)

Bob Scotney said...

What a present it would have been to receive that Swedish set.

Merry Christmas.

Mail Adventures said...

I also like the more classic. But the first set... how nice is it?