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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Peter flies by mail

He's everywhere, our Peter, including on postage stamps. They're a nice way to find art on a small scale by some fine illustrators.




These 1991 stamps from the island of Jersey feature paintings by Edmund Blampied, originally created for a lavish 1939 art book edition of Peter and Wendy.




The British Royal Mail issued this series by artist Colin Shearing in 2002, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Great Ormond Street Hospital, to whom J.M. Barrie willed the proceeds of his book.




These beautiful 2010 stamps, issued to commemorate the 150th anniversary of J.M. Barrie's birth, are by David Wyatt, who illustrated the cover of the UK edition Geraldine McCaughrean's "Peter Pan in Scarlet."



(The above two sets were also issued in alternate packages featuring other characters, as you see above. But I think by now you know what to expect when you visit this blog.)




New Zealand health stamps have been issued since 1929. A portion of each sale goes to seven social service agencies formerly known as Te Puna Whaiora Children's Health Camps, which in April 2013 changed their name to Stand Children's Services. This stamp, from 1945, depicts the statue of Peter Pan in London's Kensington Garden.




Unsurprisingly, most of these stamps were issued in the U.K. This gorgeous set, however, is from the Republic of Palau in Micronesia, issued in 2012 for the 75th anniversary of Barrie's death. (There are many excuses to put out Peter Pan stamps, I'm finding).




And there are many stamps from around the world that celebrate pirates and other nautical topics. I've avoiding collecting most of the Disney Peter Pan stamps for reasons we have already discussed, but these are all right. And the rest are very nice, besides.

3 comments:

  1. Not actually stamp related, but Dover just released a recreation of the 1906 Arthur Rackham version of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens: http://store.doverpublications.com/1606600435.html

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    1. I'm glad to hear that! Rackham may be my favorite fairy artist. My copy is from 1976 or thereabouts, so it's good to know that a new group of readers will get to see it.

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  2. hi, this is only tangentially related, but do you know who did the painting of Hook on this (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c27w8bjIVCU/UnHuoTQj6kI/AAAAAAAAIKw/Tdh8XtJLCZc/s1600/stamps+royal+mint.jpg) post up at the top where he's in the grey? It's not by any of the illustrators mentioned here. I'm asking because I remember it from an illustrated copy of Peter Pan that my local library had when I was a child that I absolutely adored and I can't seem to find the illustrator anywhere.

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