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| 2018: Christmas (Designer - Andrew Davidson) |
Our Christmas stamps this year featured postboxes and as the George V boxes are among my favourites I show the stamp featuring one of the GR lamp boxes often seen in rural locations. The church lights shine out through the gloom with the energetic chorister running down the path to catch the post. The artist,
Andrew Davidson's, local postbox in Gloucestershire is an Edward VIII and from this he got the idea of featuring one from each monarchs reign on the stamps (the full set can be seen
here).
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| 1982: Christmas Stamps II (Design - TT Trygvason) |
A line of Christmas music composed by Sigvaldi Kaldalon (1881-1946). He wrote about 350 songs mostly for solo voice and piano and it is said some have become part of Iceland's soul. The one on the stamp is a Christmas Carol called "
It Was A Blessed Night" for which he put the poet Eimar Sigurdsson (1538-1626) words to music.
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| 1982: Christmas Carols (Designer - Martin Newton) |
A carol more familiar to me is 'While Shepherds Watched' and to whom "the angel of the lord appeared"
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| 2010: Christmas (Design - Jenny Leibundgut) |
This stamp has the sparkliest star ever but my scanner couldn't cope rendering it blue so I have pinched an illustration from the web which at least gives it some depth but no glitter. The difference between reality and representation struck me as appropriate when I noticed that earlier in 2010 Swiss Post issued a couple of dazzling optical illusions stamps. It may be easy for this angel to deliver good tidings
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| 1992: Christmas Post (Design - Otto Moe) |
but for tiny elves sometimes there are difficulties, but with a bit of teamwork all things are possible.
Both the FDC and stamps were designed by the appropriately named Lotta Frost
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| 1986: Christmas Post (Design - Lotta Frost; Engraver - Lars Sjööblom) |
The Swedish Post Office celebrated its 350th Anniversary in 1986 and the Christmas stamps of that year featured four motifs forming a small town with its people and post.
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| 2009: Christmas (Design - Stephen Fuller) |
Of course the Three Wise Men had a lot longer distance to travel with their gifts
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| 2003: Christmas (Design - Olwyn Whelan) |
although perhaps this is the greatest gift of all. The full set of stamps can be seen
here.
A Happy Christmas to you all.
This week Sunday Stamps II is celebrating Christmas - come and
See It On A Postcard
4 comments:
I am enjoying a lot the Christmas stamps today. The tiny elves trying to post the mail, no doubt, caught my attention immediately...
Thanks for sharing a little bit about the designer of this year's Royal Mail Christmas stamps. A lovely selection - i would find it hard to separate that Swedish quartet, and i think using a line of music Grimm a Carol is a really nice idea for a stamp.
I hope you have a great Christmas!
If I lived in the UK, I believe I'd be travelling to find all those wonderful old post boxes!
Love the musical Icelandic stamp, and what a lovely piece it is (thanks for the link)
Great collection and it's the first time I've seen that GB stamp from 1982. Someone in our village has installed a George V box as a their mailbox on a gatepost at the bottom of their drive - fortunately they have pained it black so no-one will be confused.
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