Sunday Stamps - Illustrations: USA

My contribution is a bit different this week with no actual stamps.

However I do have in my possession two postcards and two envelopes which have suitable 'illustrations'.

USA - Envelopes issued byUSPS

The FOREVER envelope carries the date 2013, the Horses 2007.

USA - USPS postcards

These are dated - Red barn 1995, House 2000.

Presumably these can/could be used without actual stamps attached.

For some illustrated turtles and other links just visit Sunday Stamps

Illustrations - Sunday Stamps II

Charles Dickens was born today in 1812. Three years ago I posted a set of stamps which commemorated the centenary of his death in 1870.

Here they are again.

Great Britain

If you know your Dickens you will recognise the books from the illustrations.

Top:

• Mr Pickwick and Sam by Hablot Knight Brown (aka Phiz). The stamp shows part of the illustration of Mr Pickwick and Sam Weller in the attorney's office. (Novel - The Pickwick Papers)

• Mr & Mrs Micawber, again by Phiz, part of an illustration entitled 'Micawbers reunited'. (Novel - David Copperfield)

Bottom:

• David Copperfield and Betsy Trotwood (Phiz)

• Oliver Twist by George Cruikshank in the illustration 'Oliver asks for more'.

As my daughter is an attorney in the States I decided I should include a Law and Order stamp.

United States - 1968

I thought immediately that this had to be an illustration by Norman Rockwell as it was so similar to a stamp shown before by another participant in Sunday Stamps.

USA - 1963

Norman Rockwell left school at 15. He served in WWI and by the 1920s was a leading Post cover illustrator. He is probably best known for his 300+ covers for the Saturday Evening Post depicting people doing common things. His 1943 Four Freedoms paintings have also appeared on US stamps.

However the Law and Order stamp was not Rockwell but by Edward Vebell, a fencer and illustrator. He had a long run as Readers Digest's most popular illustrator.

In 2010 the Norman Rockwell Museum put on an exhibition of Vebell's work so there is a link between the two.

For other illustrations/illustrators just visit the links at Sunday-Stamps-II-60.