Stamp: Night Mail: Poster (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland 2017)
Night Mail: Poster (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland 2017)
15 February (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland ) within release Mail by Rail goes into circulation Stamp Night Mail: Poster face value 1st No Face Value
| Stamp Night Mail: Poster in catalogues | |
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| Michel: | Mi: GB AT121I |
Stamp is square format.
Initial value £ 0.65 Three years after the GPO Film Unit’s Night Mail film was released, in 1939 graphic artist Pat Keely designed an iconic poster that captured the essence of TPO trains. In excess of 70 were in operation at this time, transporting, sorting and despatching 27 million letters every day and night.Also in the issue Mail by Rail:
- Stamp - Travelling Post Office: Sorting face value 1st;
- Stamp - Travelling Post Office: Bag Exchange face value 1st;
- Stamp - Travelling Post Office: On The Move face value 1st;
- Stamp - Travelling Post Office: Loading face value 1st;
- Stamp - Night Mail: Poster face value 1st;
- Stamp - Post Office (London) Railway face value 1st;
Stamp Night Mail: Poster it reflects the thematic directions:
Postal history is the study of postal systems and how they operate and, or, the study of the use of postage stamps and covers and associated postal artifacts illustrating historical episodes in the development of postal systems. The term is attributed to Robson Lowe, a professional philatelist, stamp dealer and stamp auctioneer, who made the first organised study of the subject in the 1930s and described philatelists as "students of science", but postal historians as "students of humanity". More precisely, philatelists describe postal history as the study of rates, routes, markings, and means (of transport).
