Re: If you're in the mood for stamps.

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: : I do so love a well designed book.

: : Yvette

: Yvette! Thanks for this.  I searched for the stamp on the (very nice) cover, 
: and it's a 1881  1 penny stamp with Queen Victoria on it. I googled it, 
: and read that the first stamp with no royal member was edited in  1967 
: to  commemorate the solo round the world voyage of Gipsy Moth IV: "a 
: person appears as an unidentifiable blob on the yacht – as there was 
: only one person on board it must have been Francis Chichester"  (this 
: sounds splendidly  British!). A stamp was made to honour  Freddie 
: Mercury, with drummer Roger Taylor in the background.
: And then  again the royal family member rule was broken in March 2001 
: with a series dedicated to English Weather, and in December 2003, 
: "when players from England's victory over Australia in the 2003 Rugby 
: World Cup Final were shown; however, no faces appeared."Again, the rule 
: was (finally ) abandoned with the release on 6 October 2005 of a set of 
: stamps to commemorate the English cricket team's victory over Australia 
: in the 2005 Ashes series (always  Australia!). In January 2007  Beatles 
: album covers appeared on British stamps.
:  
: Well, all the stuff above, Yvette, only because I saw the cover of your 
: book. I'd better go to  sleep.
: Viv


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