Sunday 16 December 2012

Australian Christmas stamp


A beauty from Australia which arrived just a few days ago.  It is based on a tapestry commissioned by an Australian collector and woven in England between 1900 and 1902.  Its title was Adoration of the Magi based on a design by Edward Burne-Jones.  I'd love to see the original tapestry.

It is one of two stamps with religious themes out of a set of five issued by Australia Post this year.

This is a post for Sunday Stamps, now hosted by Violet Sky at "See it on a Postcard!"

8 comments:

  1. This is really stunning. I'd love to have it. And the postmark is great!

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  2. I really like the festive cancellation!

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  3. Wow a beautiful stamp and postcard. The tapestry must be amazing.
    Thank you for joining in this week.

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  4. ah, a nativity theme with flowers! how lovely.

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  5. I really like the Christmas maxicards.

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  6. A really traditional Christmas scene.

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  7. Australia do some nice Christmas stamps. This one is superb, especially as a maxicard. I've never seen any of Burn-Jones' tapestries but see there were ten versions of this woven with different borders. Now all I have to do is pick my destination!

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