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Merry Christmas to Stamp Community members from Fair Dinkum Stamps! Thank you to all who have participated in all of the interesting forums this year - looking forward to sharing your stamp adventures in 2022  A Christmas cover sent from the famous Bondi Beach, 90 years ago:  |
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Merry Christmas Canyoneer - great stamps - very understated festive cheer on the stamps back in those days! |
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Hi fairdinkumstamps
That's a great Bondi Beach cancel. I live right near the beach.
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That's a great Bondi Beach cancel. I live right near the beach. Lucky man Rob041256, a beautiful part of the world and one of the first places Santa would have visited as he made his way across Australia.  |
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Hi fairdinkumstamps
It's been quite hot at the beach lately, and Santa was seen at the Bondi Beach Hotel wearing a pair of speedos and downing a few pints of beer during the day, and took off at dusk. |
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Here's the old guy when he visited Bondi in 1977 - my favourite Australian Christmas stamp.  |
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Too err, is to be human. Australian Aerogramme, showing Christmas Angel, but in fact the Durer "Doomsday Angel" Durer again pops up, in 1970 "original Artwork" by Beasley should it be ...."After Durer" ? (Triptych) Author : David Plummer.    Western Australia 1910 Christmas Card Sold 1993 $150 Ace Stamp Auctions Perth.  |
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Link to a blog with an image of the 'Doomsday Angel' on Durer's woodcut that was used on the 1974 Aerogramme mentioned above: https://philatelist.home.blog/2019/...-came-to-be/Rod222, could you please provide a link to the original article that discusses the correlation between the 1970 stamp and Durer? I can see Durer's 'Holy Family' online but it is not the same painting. |
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Thanks for the link FDS ! had not seen Durer's "Whore of Babylon" prior. Interesting. Unable to find a colour image of Durer's in the Munich Museum. Seems rather obscure.   |
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Have you always thought this, was of a young lass ? The infant Samuel,
by Sir Joshua Reynolds.1776 Oil on canvas, 89 x 70 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier  |
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The Albrecht Dürer woodblock print referred to above is really wonderful, and the images we can post in this forum do not do it justice. If you want to look at a better picture, use this link to the Arthistory Project: https://arthistoryproject.com/artis...-of-babylon/Copies are in various museums, and one was sold recently by Christies. The aerogramme does look "Christmas" if you did not know the story behind the angel. |
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Can anyone find the triptych used as inspiration for the 1970 stamp online? |
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Looking forward to a few more images of Australian Christmas stamps and covers from our members. This Christmas postcard was received at Coolac on Christmas Eve 113 years ago. Merry Christmas to all from Fair Dinkum Stamps.   |
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