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The contrast between the quality of design and execution of that issue and the recent efforts is quite extreme.
G'day Geoff,
I think of it as the worldwide trend in Philately since the 1970's, 1980's as the tendency towards the "cartoon"
I have my own opinions on that, but that's all they are, opinions.
I'll let the Philatelists over the next century reflect and make commentary.
It is worth mentioning, our first Commonwealth stamp, the Kangaroo and Map, faced IMMENSE ridicule, when released. Shame! shame !
Now we hold it in reverence, it typifies the Australian boldness, to be individual, not to adopt a bust of the British Monarchy at the time.
Collected worldwide with tenacity and huge prices, every dint and scratch pored over and catalogued.
The only constant, in our universe, is change.
Posted 05/07/2017 3:31 pm
