Great overprints everyone. Mouth-watering even.
Quote:
Not sure, Maybe our friend "Happy Jack" Giles knows
David, he wasn't happy when he left here !
And he never came back to explain himself either.
Quote:
Fantastic stamps Londonbus1.
I love the currency.
Can you tell us anything about them?
PLATEFLAW 
Ah yes! Alice in Wonderland, one of my favourite stories. Do you like stories ?
A certain gentleman in Suffolk,UK was peeved with the Post Office and it's then Postmaster General, Anthony Wedgewood-Benn for not issuing a stamp in 1965 to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Alice and author Lewis Carroll [Pseudonym].
So what better to do for a man with a slightly eccentric mind, than to appoint himself Postmaster General of Wonderland and print your own stamps !
The rest, as they say, is history. Gerald King became a legend of Philatelic Phantasies, still designing and printing stamps today 45 years later....and still with the same old sense of crazy, anything goes humour that is loved by many.
I have exchanged emails with Mr King and he recently sent me copies of his catalogues. The stamps in this thread are numbers 121 and 122...except they aren't. The colours are different, so they are unlisted...or are they ? And so it goes on.
The catalogues are valued in both GB Pounds and Wonderland Slumbers and winks. There are three main Lewis Carroll related lots.
Alice....The Victoria period
Alice in Wonderland and Looking-glass land.
Snark Island
There are many more too. I have posted some here and there in other threads. Here is one of them;
https://goscf.com/t/7325&SearchTerm...n,WonderlandMaybe it would be a good idea to have a thread about the man and his Philatelic Phantasy !
Anyone for Tea ?
MadHatterbus1
Posted 10/06/2010 11:36 pm
.
