Sunday, 25 May 2014

UNITED KINGDOM

A wonderful cover with 2 sets of children drawing stamps, defaced neatly with a nice pictorial first day of issue postmark.
The designs of these 2 stamps are from the winners of the Christmas Stamps Design Contest organized by the Royal Mail in June 2013, which was among the school going children from 4 to 11 years of age.
The theme the children were given “What does the Christmas season mean to you?”
From 240,000 entries, the 2 winners were selected, the first class stamp was created by Molly Robson, aged seven, for her painting title "Santa" and winning the second class stamp design was Rosie Hargreaves, 10, for her painting the “Singing Angels” 
Among the elite judging panel included the winner of 1966 winner of Christmas stamps design contest Tasveer Shimza, who picked the two winners.

Posted on: 05Nov2013   Received on: 20Nove2013   Travelling time: 15days

Thanks to my friend Richard Martin.

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