Sunday Stamps: Post on Post

Sunday Stamps time of the week again! This week's theme calls for entries on the postal services. So herein is the I heart post's post on postal stamps featuring post. Tongue twister, much?

Click for larger image and to read text explaining the historical setting illustrated in the stamps

So this week I thought I would share a presentation pack produced for National Stamp Week in 1980. Unfortunately this particular stamp pack has aged quite badly - the stamps are still beautiful - but the presentation pack itself has suffered from 'foxing'. I am not sure if I am using this term properly, but the pack has developed some brown spots, which is a little bit sad. If anyone has any advice on what I should do about said foxing, I would be very happy to hear it.

Luckily the stamps are still very beautiful. I love that the bright red colour of the post box, the postman's uniform and of the vehicle, really stands out and links the design of the five stamps together so nicely. I also really love that the designer has chosen to use colonial buildings (presumably post offices) as the back drop to the stamps.

Also, as an added extra, I thought I would also show off these nice little stamps which celebrate the Birth of the Post Office. They are overprinted with Norfolk Island, so I thought that would tie-in quite nicely with last week's Sunday Stamps post too.

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Sunday Stamps: Norfolk Island Map Stamps

Norfolk Island UPU Centenary Issue 1974, Miniature sheet.

Seeing as the theme for Sunday Stamps this week is unspecified, I thought I would take the opportunity to show off a recent acquisition relating to my favourite theme: maps on stamps.

This stamps in this set from Norfolk Island are Awesome x 2. Not only do they depict maps, they are mini maps! For those of you wondering where Norfolk Island is -the 40c stamp provides the answer.

Norfolk Island is a self-governing territory of Australia, which means that it has an Australian post code, Australian currency and Australian police, but it has its own government and its own postage stamps!

The stamps commemorate the Universal Postal Union Centenary and were issued in 1974. The stamps are quite large and are like stickers, the reverse of which  tells you about Norfolk Island:

I love the topographic detail on the mini-sheet - it almost looks like the island could have come straight out of Tolkien's Middle Earth. The reverse of the mini-sheet, in contrast, looks like it has come straight out of a 1970s tourism brochure. I love it!!

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This is an entry into Viridian's Sunday Stamps.