HM Queen Elizabeth II Stamps & Ephemera

sarah
Here is a nice addition to your thread, a Canadian Stamp/Coin ($1) 4.II.77 - First Day of issue - Silver Jubilee Commemorative HM QE II

René

Found these two lovely first day covers.  They are really large.  Never seen any since. Bought several years ago.  Would love to see any other examples if people have them.  I bought them for the artwork and that they were signed.  Thinking it is a pre printed gold signature but the are still very nice.  Loads of information on the back as well.

Also bought the Diamond jubilee stamps as a framed set.

Collecting stamps can take you in all sorts of directions.  I am known to deviate quite a bit.

This is still HM Queen and stamps in a vague way but wanted to share as to me it is an exciting find.

In 1972 to celebrate HM Queen silver Wedding Anniversary 3 lithograph in a limited edition of 500 each were produced.  Reproductions at that time were so much closer to the original.


This next portrait is a group of 5 grotesque heads by Leonardo da Vinci.  (original in Royal collection Trust)  you will see it is an exact match as has the same small pieces missing and in the bottom right hand corner you will see the Edward V11 stamp.  He went around stamping all the collection.















In 2018 a prestige booklet was produced of stamps and Leonardo Da Vinci.  In the stamp booklet was this portrait.  






It is interesting that this has become widely reproduced albeit without the small missing pieces.  None of the recent reproductions have thd Edward Stamp that is on the original portrait in RCT. (ROYAL COLLECTION TRUST)

Shows how technology and changes in practice mean that reproductions tend not to be as close to the original as previous.  They are not as specialised.

I feel v lucky to have found a Da Vinci lithograph so close to the original from the RCT.  Made even better that it has been produced on a stamp sheet.  

This is another way I have expanded my collection and learnt through art and stamps. I have collected HM portraits but also learnt history of some of the portraits that her ancestors collected.  My history of art was non existent when I first started collecting art.

I get real excitement finding the art on stamps.

London bus I bet that trip and talk was amazing. Can I ask you if you remember Douglas Muir talking about John Hedgecoe as the photographer. It's interesting as I believe it was the post office discussing that they were Lord Snowdons photographs that caused John Hedgecoe to sue.

Did you see the original Machin Sculpture whilst at the talk.  Have you got any pictures of it.  I have the main John Hedgecoe photograph but would live to see it as a bust taken by someone who saw it.

Seeing your amazing post on Machin has made me get out some of my Machin stuff. I forget over the years how much research I have done as I flit from artist to artist depending on what I find or what triggers my memory.

London bus your photographs are infinitely better than my photography skills. Please if you have more Machin things please please show it especially from the talk.

Love the cover addressed to Douglas Muir.

Just a quick note sarah to let you know that I too have been enjoying the thread and your specialised collection; what a treat ;-)

I too have stamps with the visage of QE II, but my favourites have to be Canada's Cameo issue from 1962. For me, the simple design by Ernst Roch has its eye apeall aka PopArt as shared in here in an early post. At the same time, the stamps themselves, with their multitude of varieties: papers, perfs, cancels, etc., provide the collector a wealth of opportunity to explore.

Thanks to Stanley64 made me think about my Yousuf Karsh portraits.  He was one amazing photographer.  For people who live in Canada it is worth looking out for the book entitled Yousuf Karsh portraits of greatness.1959.  The book can be very expensive but you can find bargains as well in it.





This book is unique in that it contains individual sheet fed Photogravure prints.  The book is binded  so they can be taken out. The book had to be produced in the Netherlands.

It contains an amazing photogravure of your first day cover Stanley64

This is the Yousuf Karsh Copper Plate.  It was an amazing find.  I am probably too trusting but I needed the expert help to get the print from it.  

These are some more unusual stamps with Cecil Beatom portrait.

On the first day cover theme.  This is a Leonard Boden first day cover and the original print I own.  HM Queen us wearing the Order of St John.

I have a proof of  thr Long Live The Queen  stamp from the coronation.

Thanks to this post I have found this above portrait on a £5 Gibraltar stamp.  Its in colour and an amazing stamp.  I have just bought a set of the stamps as the whole set is lovely.  I am not sure what the etiquette on this forum is about using pictures of stamps you don't own yet.  If it is allowed I would love someone more technical than me to post the stamps up otherwise I will post once I receive them.