Australia Stamp Release

Bush Ballads 2014 13th May

Banjo Paterson 1864-1941

Hope you like it! I do!

An excellent idea for a stamp, well executed.

Yes, nicely visualised. Reminded me of the sequence 'Jim's Ride' from the film, "The Man From Snowy River", which was inspired by Banjo Paterson's poem. Whoever did the riding in this knew what they were about.

Terry

http://aso.gov.au/titles/features/m...river/clip3/

Edited for typo. TC>

Just found a source on Tom Burlinson which gives this. Tom Burlinson, the actor who played Jim, did all his own riding, including the incredible ride down the descent. He did it several times so the camera crew could get all their shots. The sure-footed little horse was 'Denny', who lived to the grand age of 29, and was owned by the Lovick family in Victoria.

Terry

Those are some very attractive stamps, thank you for sharing.

Thanks Heaps Terry for posting the link on that horse ride from "The Man From Snowy River" very special.

That movie "The Man From Snowy River" does a great deed for the poet Banjo Paterson and the Men & the Horses of the High Country he was writing about.

Hi KGV Collector,

Two of a kind, Banjo Paterson and Robert Service, who is Canada's National Poet. He is famous for his Yukon poems and my favourite is 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew". He also wrote a poem about a stamp collector. Links to both here.

Terry

http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poem...mp-collector
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wtz1zu3Y24

The gutter strip from the Australia Bush Ballads 2014

"Where's Wally" .... Australia Style.

Learn (If you care to) the Australian Lingo, slang, "strine"

"L" is for Lyrebird, Lizard (or couch potato?), Lounge, Lamingtons,

"T" is for "Tradie" (the subcontractor), "Tinny" (The alum boat), Two up, (The coins in the air) "Tasmania" (The map) "Tassie Devil" (The animal) "Thongs" (the footwear of the Tradie) etc & etc

Find your own............