To commemorate World Book Day and the 150th anniversary of the death of Charlotte Bronte Royal Mail has gone overboard with a set of 6 stamps, a miniature sheet and a prestige book.
As is often the case, Royal Mail has trouble relating the chronology of the designs to the values, and there is no logic to the order of the stamps in the set, apart from having the principle characters on the two most used inland rate stamps.
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2nd class Mr Rochester, master of Thornfield | 1st class 'Come to Me' - Jane receives a telepathic plea from Rochester | 40p 'In the Comfort of her Bonnet' - Jane arrives at the George Inn and is beset with doubt and fears | Miniature sheet The miniature sheet has all 6
stamps on a background of the title page of the Jane Eyre
manuscript. Pictured at proof stage: we cannot be sure which of these shows the correct colours |
57p 'La Ligne des Rats' - Adele Rochester recites to Jane | 68p 'Refectory' - Jane is subjected to a starvation diet at Lowton School | £1.12 'Inspection' - Rev Brocklehurst, the sadistic head of Lowton School |
The panes are shown here on our first day covers (These covers are
sold out).
Pane 1: as shown below, contains Machin 2nd class, 39p & 42p
stamps with a label showing the marking of the Bronte Museum. The page
illustration shows Howarth Parsonage 1860.
Pane 2: This pane is illustrated with a letter written by Charlotte
Bronte (now in the British Museum) and has 2 x 2nd class and 2 x 40p
England stamps.
Technical details:
The stamps, Miniature Sheet and Prestige Book are all printed by Walsall
Security Printers in lithography, except the panes of defintive and
country stamps which are printed in gravure.
All images are taken from Royal Mail's Philatelic
Bulletin and Postmark Bulletin, and are Copyright 2004/5
by Royal Mail.
We have produced exclusive FDCs for this issue for the set and the
miniature sheet - shown below,
and in sets of 4 prestige book panes - see above.
Norvic FDC with set of 6 stamps and postmark N9424 or N9444 - £7.50
Norvic FDC with miniature sheet and postmark N9421 or N9441 - £7.50
Prestige book on a set of 4 Norvic FDCs with postmarks N9424, L9437,
N9420, N9423 (Panes 1-4) -
Sold out (see above).
Also available:
Prestige Book - £9.00
The special postmarks available for use on FDCs are shown here.
Ref FD505 Philatelic Bureau Official postmark Ferndean Manor |
Ref FD506 Haworth Parsonage official postmark |
Ref N9421 Haworth, Keighley |
Ref L9411 Eyre Street Hill, London EC1 |
Ref N9420 Charlotte Bronte 1816-1855 York |
Ref N9423 150th Anniversary of Charlotte Bronte 1816-1855 Haworth, Keighley, Yorks. |
Ref N9424 Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth, Keighley, Yorks. |
Ref N9422 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Gateshead |
Ref L9412 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Rochester |
Ref L9414 First Day of Issue Stampex Jane Eyre London N1 |
Ref L9410 Chestnut Lane, London N20 |
Ref L9409 Literature and Fables, Stories Road, London SE5 | Ref M9418 Eyre Road, Birmingham |
Ref M9419 Hay-on-Wye, Hereford |
Ref N9446 Wuthering Heights Inn, Haworth, Keighley |
Ref N9440 Norton Conyers, Wath, Ripon, N Yorkshire |
Ref N9441 The Parsonage, Haworth, Keighley, W. Yorks |
Ref N9442 Cowan Bridge School, Carnforth, Lancs |
Ref N9443 Tunstall, Carnforth, Lancs |
Ref N9444 Thornton, Bradford, W. Yorks |
<<<< Ref L9437 The Bronte Sisters, Charlotte-Emily-Anne, The Society of Authours, London SW10 |
<<<< Ref N9445 Wycoller, Colne, Lancs |
This page updated 28 September 2005
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