Happy Christmas to all my Man of TIN blog readers – wishing you many shiny toys!
Image: From a lovely old 1978 British Royal Mail stamp set of Christmas customs (see below), the 13p stamp postcard is in my 1580s – 1590s / 1940 “Arma-Dads Army” Elizabethan Sealion project scrapbook. New summary blog page for this project here:
During my childhood, my late dad as a lifelong stamp collector used to buy me the postcard versions and sometimes the highly educational presentation packs or first day covers, which had insert pages all about the stamp topic. Stamp collecting and model railways are two of the family hobbies in the blood (in a malarial or genetic way) that I am resisting from lack of time, storage, space and money.
Happy Christmas to all my readers & fellow bloggers from Mark Man of TIN!
Happy Christmas from the whole Man of TIN family of spin off blogs:
Man of TIN blog two – all set up ready for when I fill up and run out of my free 3GB WordPress Man of TIN blog site sometime in early 2022.
Pound Store Plastic Warriors Blog – including tabletop snowball fight fun!
https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2021/08/03/pound-store-snowball-fight-2021/
Scouting Wide Games for the Tabletop – also with festive snowball fight fun!
Look Duck and Varnish – my occasional Home Guard and Sealion gaming blog
Sidetracked2017 – where model railways meet toy soldiers and wargaming
Warrior and Pacific Magazine 1901 one-off handwritten children’s magazine 1901
Collecting Peter Laing 15mm figures – cataloguing my collection of these figures ahead of their 50th anniversary In October 1972
Enjoy your family and festive time.
Who knows what Christmas and the New Year will bring? Keep safe and well, here’s wishing you happiness and health, if not wealth. Whatever happens, we have our marvellous hobby to enrich our lives and deplete the coffers.
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN, Christmas Eve, 24 December 2021
This set was designed in 1978 by British artist and book illustrator Faith Jacques (1923–1997) who had an interesting wartime career as a WREN (Women’s Royal Navy Service):
“She was posted to Oxford where she was stationed in the New Bodleian Library. Her duties included control of a filing department containing over a million photographs, holiday snaps included, of Germany and Occupied Europe, with particular attention given to pictures of coastlines and village approaches.” Wikipedia source.
The 13p (most expensive) stamp design was the 16th Century carollers singing the Boars Head Carol.
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