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| 2018: 250 Years of the Royal Academy of Arts |
'Queuing at the Royal Academy of Arts' by
Yinka Shonibara whose artworks feature beautiful brightly coloured fabrics and patterns that explore the issues of race, class and culture. Royal Mail commissioned six Royal Academicians to design a stamp portraying the popular annual RA Summer Exhibition and Yinka Shonibara created this queue in the Burlington House courtyard waiting to enter. It's England so of course it is raining. For postal lovers Burlington House also has a rather flash
wooden postbox in the porch of the entrance but stamps must be bought elsewhere
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| 1990: 150th Anniversary of the Postage Stamp |
and there may be a queue but not as long as this one outside the Main Post Office in Guernsey in 1969 when the first stamps of an independent postal administration were issued. The stamp on the stamp shows the heads of both Queen Elizabeth I and II but a monarch goes walkabout
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| 1997: 25th Anniversary of the Reign of Queen Margrethe II |
here where the people have been queuing to welcome Queen Margrethe of Denmark
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| 2018: Europa - Bridges (Design (V Beltyukov) |
For a queue with a view head for the Floating Bridge over the Moskva River.
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| Kidderminster Rail Ticket Office |
Sunday Stamps prompt this week is the Letter Q - here for a quartet of Queues and three queens -
See It On A Postcard
5 comments:
That queue doesn't look terribly orderly according to the umbrellas. but maybe they were excited by the 250th anniversary!
that 'floating bridge' is crazy!
How did you think of looking for queues on stamps?!?
Desperation Eva! I've done queens before and saw the queue on the Guernsey stamp so went looking to see what else I might shoehorn in.
:DDD
Very clever way to deal with Q. Great Danish stamp.
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