Philately will Get you Nowhere

[steepholm]

I've never been a stamp collector, and I'm not sure the new Jane Austen set would persuade me to take it up. But Margaret Mahy? What's not to like? Who wouldn't want a Changeover stamp (even at NZ$2.90) to commemorate the stamp-wielding Laura Chant, or a Word Witch stamp (a snip at NZ$1.90) by which to remember Mahy herself - who in her capacity as librarian was also a dab-handed stamper?

I wish they'd do a DWJ set, though.

Comments

[kalypso]

I thought the Austen stamps were very disappointing.

The London Underground 150th anniversary ones were good, though. I bought a sheet of 1934 (Boston Manor Art Deco station) instead of a book of plain stamps last time I was topping up on first-class. Forgot to ask about second-class - I'd have bought the 1863 ones like a shot if I'd seen them.

[steepholm]

The existence of these things usually passes me by, at least until it's far too late to get hold of them, but hearing of sets devoted to two of my favourite authors on the same day piqued my interest!

[kalypso]

I rarely notice, though I did see the Austen set in the Guardian yesterday. I found the Underground ones because I asked; I tend to buy stamps in bulk, and usually plain ones, but having seen some very pretty stamps with red flowers on recent envelopes (I particularly liked the fact that they were normal size rather than the big ones we tend to get with picture stamps) I was inspired to ask next time I went to the post office if they had anything decorative at present, and on being offered a choice of first-class Underground designs I took a sheet of Art Deco. I must remember to ask more often! I like getting an envelope with an unexpected stamp on it.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Since I'm not a stamp collector either, but I do occasionally like pretty stamps and wonder what to do with them, on a couple occasions when the USPS has honored favorite writers (Steinbeck and Ogden Nash, an odd pairing, but I'm sticking with them), I've taken a single copy of the stamp and pasted it on the title page of a good copy of one of the author's best works.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

That's a neat idea. I may follow suit.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't there be a Tricksters stamp for our Christmas cards?

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that would be great!

[yalovetz]

Oh my goodness, Margaret Mahy stamps! I live with a New Zealander and we're both Mahy devotees...

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Gollys Mrs Durrells, you shouldn'ts calls him thats!