Charles Dickens - Sunday Stamps

The 7th February is the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens. I have been a volunteer text corrector for the Dickens Journals Online (DJO) Project. The project aims to have all his works in the magazines Household Words and All The Year Round available for reading on line in time for his birthday. As of today they are 98% complete. You can read about DJO and listen to Simon Callow explaining what's going on at http://www.djo.org.uk/

Meanwhile the stamps I have for you this week are those issued in 1970 on the centenary of his death.

Charles Dickens 1812/1870

Top row: Pickwick Papers - Mr Pickwick and Sam (Weller); David Copperfield - Mr & Mrs Micawber

Bottom row: David Copperfield and Betsy Trotwood; Oliver Twist asking for more.

You will find other selections at Viridian's Sunday Stamps

Universal Postage Union - Sunday Stamps

Last week I put up a first day cover and this week I discovered another that I had forgotten.

 

 

Universal Postage Union Centenary 1974

 The four stamps issued on 12 June 1974 show methods of transport which have played a part in overseas mail in the hundred years, 1874 - 1974.

• 3.1/2p - The P&O packet steamer of 1888
• 5.1/2p - The first official air mail flight from London to Paris at the time of the Coronation of George V in 1911.
• 8p - An Imperial Airways flying boat of 1937 which was later used on the England-Australia service.
• 10p -The blue air mail van and posting box first seen in London in 1930.

 To see what others have posted this week don't forget to visit Viridian's Sunday Stamps 47