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(RCSD) GB Spoof Stamp
Last year, a special spoof stamp was created for April 1 by a
Scarborough (Yorkshire, UK) collector. Christopher Phillips, secretary of the Scarborough Philatelic Society, designed the one-off “junk mail” stamp to remind people to place unwanted mail in the wastepaper basket and not be “fooled” into buying things they don’t want. http://bp1.blogger.com/_s2wuKOzaRP0/...poof_stamp.jpg The stamps were be given out free to members of the Scarborough group and some were be sold to collectors on auction website Ebay. Mr Phillips has been producing the April 1 stamps since 2007, when he created a topsy-turvy version of a first class stamp with the lettering “Airmail Post to Southern Hemisphere”. He said: “I thought it would be rather fun and our members thought the stamps were great. “People from as far away as Australia bought the stamps and they proved quite popular.” Mr Phillips has used the stamps when sending letters to people, but he added that you must always use a normal stamp too and put the fun stamp elsewhere on the envelope. The SPS also celebrated its 70th anniversary last year and more one- off stamps and events are in the pipeline. The group is always looking for new members and meets at 7pm for 7.30pm on the first Tuesday of each month – but if the Monday is a Bank Holiday, it is the second Tuesday of the month. |
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(RCSD) GB Spoof Stamp
A nice piece of Yorkshire humour
Thanks Blair. There's a Youtube skit going round, with Monty Python called "four Yorkshiremen" worth a peep. "Blair (TC)" Last year, a special spoof stamp was created for April 1 by a Scarborough (Yorkshire, UK) collector. |
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