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Happy Holidays and a Prosperous New Year!
The depicted letter from Edinburgh to neighbouring Leith was handstamped 'TOO LATE' indicating that it had been posted late and held back until the next collection. As a result, the sender's wishes on that Christmas evening did not reach the…
Happy Holidays and a Prosperous New Year!
The illustration was taken from the front side of a 1936 postcard, produced by the Brazilian airline Syndicato Condor, which advertised the trip from Brazil to Europe in just two days in cooperation with Lufthansa. It was picked up from Alexios…
Happy Holidays and a Prosperous New Year!
In 1993, the British Christmas stamps celebrated the 150th anniversary of the publication of A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens. Within a week of its publication some 6000 copies of the book had been sold at five shillings each. Dickens…