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| 1981: Europa - Folklore (Design - Fritz Wegner) |
Mummers' plays were performed seasonally usually at Christmas, Easter or Plough Monday and could be described as early pantomime with rhyming couplets. A popular play in England would be George and the Dragon with a twist that George is also eventually killed by a knight called Slasher but George is brought back to life by The Doctor and his magic potion. The plays are stories of birth and re-birth, good over evil enacted by masked or disguised actors. Modern mummers don't often wear elaborate masks. I imagine the mummers glory years were the Middle Ages.
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| 1993: 150th Anniversary of A Christmas Carol (Design - Quentin Blake) |
Whatever the time of year everyone needs a jovial Mr and Mrs Fezzywig who Dickens portrays as symbols of joy and community, kindness and generosity and not only for Christmas. What else is not only for Christmas? Well there is
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| 2004: Christmas (Illustrator - Bjorn Berg) |
receiving and sending mail and
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| 2024: Christmas (Artist - Judy Joel) |
churches, or this case cathedrals. Not forgetting the well known plea that when buying puppies as presents
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| 1991: Dogs - Paintings by George Stubbs |
"Dogs are not only for Christmas'.
Sunday Stamps theme - Christmas in July - See It On A Postcard
6 comments:
Lovely stamps. Thanks for sharing.
The medieval times had some interesting entertainment. (I rather like the idea of mummers - could be scary and fun). The Swedes have the cutest mailmen?!
A Christmas Carol is a favourite book. I never read it in July, though :)
The Mummers are just wonderful!
Those are amazing stamps! I like the George twist. I have not heard the "Dogs are not only for Christmas," which I take to mean you need to consider they'll be around 15 years. I only know the "Pets aren't Presents." The Fino and Tiny stamp is my favorite, I collect stamps, yes, but have a special collection of dogs ones. That looks like it would be a great postcard! I'm off to search for either, or, both!
Ha! The postcard is an image of the stamp on a postcard! A whole series of postcards of Stubbs' dogs on stamps on postcards in fact.
I love the first stamp about the medieval plays. And the dog stamp too
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