This card shows the Dorothy Wilding Definitive photo of Queen Elizabeth II with a frame designed by Edmund Dulac, issued 19 June 1952.
This year being the Diamond Jubilee of the queen's accession to the throne, the Post Office is issuing new definitives and a miniature sheet which will have several different images of the queen taken from stamps, coins and banknotes.
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| Image from Norvic Philatelics |
Stamps always have always shown the queen facing to the left (in fact all the monarchs since the Penny Black) whereas coins show the queen facing right. So for the first time we will have an unconventional view of the queen on the stamps to be issued in a miniature sheet on 6 February this year. The images will also be available as stamp cards.
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| Image from Norvic Philatelics |
This is a post for Sunday Stamps, now hosted by Violet Sky at "See it on a Postcard!"
Thanks for showing the Diamond Jubilee stamps. I shall have to put a note in my diary and consider buying some.
ReplyDeleteI think the wilding portrait is very attractive, it is almost a timeless portrayal of a queen from any century. It will be a nice change to put a blue stamp on an envelope:-)
ReplyDeletePresumably the second class stamps will change too, or we'll have two shades of blue to cope with.
DeleteIt is interesting that the stamp portraits all face one way, but the coin portraits alternate.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that Edmund Dulac also designed stamps, so thanks for that information. Nor had I thought about which way the Queen faced!
ReplyDeleteI do like this series.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for clarifying the profile issue - I was confused. I thought each successive monarch would face the opposite direction from the previous one and I hadn't noticed that the profile was different for the money and stamps. Not terribly observant, am I?!
The queen looks so lovely in this stamp. She has actually aged pretty well, I think.
ReplyDeleteOoooh, i did not notice that she faced a different way on stamps and coins!
ReplyDeleteThe original tiara -- the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara -- has been removed from the original photo and another tiara -- existent, as far as I know, put in its place. Very odd.
ReplyDeleteStamps of the sovereign tend to face left because it is more natural, in a manner of speaking, to face towards the envelope, where the address is etc., rather than out into space.