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Reading a Braille book
Henry Fawcett
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Proposed swastika overprint design for Jersey stamps
Proposed penny stamp for Jersey during Nazi occupation
Lioness Attacking the Exeter Mail, At Winterslow Hut near Salisbury, on the Night of Sunday the 20th of October, 1816
The Lioness Attacking the Horse of the Exeter Mail Coach
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Service with a smile makes work pleasant and worthwhile
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Mail for the packets arriving at Falmouth, 1813
Outposts of Empire - Central Australia
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First London post box
Time plate from one of the first London post boxes
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Canal Street
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Blists Hill Post Office
Hen & Chicks
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Britain's first charity stamp
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Plate 4: Different model china letter boxes from the Wilkinson Collection
Swindon visit
Memorial to GWR workers in Swindon
Paul Leith's Kew Gardens stamps (1990)
David Gentleman's unadopted False Acacia design
David Gentleman's unadopted Encephelartos longifolia design
David Gentleman's unadopted Oriental Plane design
David Gentleman's unadopted Encephelartos longifolia design (alternate)
David Gentleman's unadopted Pagoda Tree design
David Gentleman's unadopted Pagoda Tree design (winter)
David Gentleman's unadopted Oak Tree design
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Ulysses by James Joyce
The 40th Anniversary of the Accession
Loading carriages on the Post Office London Railway
Post Office Railway
Mickey Mouse money box
Sammy the Stamp Bug stamp wetter
Postman Pat pencil case
A group of novelty items in the Wilkinson Collection
Don't Be A Pirate! A Television and Sound Licence costs £2 for a year
Jennifer and Jo man the BPMA stall at Swinpex
The crowds at Swinpex
Some of the BPMA leaflets and postcards available on the day
The BFPO's OCR scanner and automated sorting system
BFPO First Day Cover to commemorate the BPMA's visit
A page from Freddie Mercury's stamp album
A stamp from Zanzibar from Freddie Mercury's album
John Lennon on one of the UK-Australia Joint Issues of 1988
The Bicentennial of American Independence stamp (1976)
Grand Regatta Columbus stamp (1992)
The Settlers' Tale: 17th Century Migration to the Americas (1999)
The Mulready Envelope (1840)
The Landfall in the Americas and Grand Regatta Columbus stamps (1992)
The Mail Coach in a Thunder Storm on Newmarket Heath
The Bedford Times. Changing of Horses at the Old White Lion (1830)
The Elephant and Castle on the Brighton Road
West Country Mails at the Gloucester Coffee House, Piccadilly
London 2010 postcard #1: An attack on the Exeter Mail in 1816
London 2010 postcard #2: St James's Palace and the coronation of Edward VIII
London 2010 postcard #3: A relief of George VI by Edmund Dulac
One of the Polar Explorers stamps from 1972, featuring Robert Falcon Scott
Replica Penfold pillar box
Stour Valley Post Bus
Pillar Box. Moor Park, Hertfordshire
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Danger Mouse Talc Container
A group of vehicles from the Wilkinson Collection, including a US mail car with Snoopy
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Britain Can Take It!
The Great Train Robbery: Wanted Poster
Tony Benn as Postmaster General
Send Airgraphs - they save aircraft space
Send him Greetings on a Christmas Airgraph form
Send him Greetings on a Christmas Airgraph form
Think Ahead, Write Instead
Gandhi Centenary Year 1969 stamp
Gandhi Centenary Year 1969 unadopted stamp design
Postboxes stamp pane
K2 and K6 phone kiosks at Smithfield Market
The Central Telegraph Office c. 1935
Curator Chris Taft, takes a break beside the statue of Rowland Hill, outside King Edward Building
Penny Black and Twopence Blue
Death Centenary of Rowland Hill stamp, 1979
Pioneers of Communication: Rowland Hill stamps, 1995
Painting of St Martins le Grand by James Pollard
Flintlock pistol
Chromolithograph valentine fan with 12 segments
Pillar boxes at the Museum Store
1970 BSA Bantam motorcycle
The bomb damage suffered by Greenwich Post Office in 1945
A Mobile Post Office in a bombed area, 1941
King Edward VIII
A special handstamp from the first flight of the Aerial Post between Windsor and Hendon in 1911
King Edward VIII definitive
Centenary of Picture Postcards stamps, 1994
Postcard showing Old Post Office, Tintagel, circa 1910
Pull-out postcard from Cromer, 1921
Pull-out postcard from Cromer, with a concertina of mini photographs, 1921
Three Penfold pillar boxes
Prototype display case for GPO 3 mobile post office model
Prototype of wall display panel
Queues to get in to Blists Hill
Sketch diagram of rocket, 1934
Helicopter mail trials in Norfolk, 1949
Clear and correct circulation details save time
Scanning stamp artwork
The recreated Victorian Post Office at Blists Hill
Battle of Britain 4d stamps
The First Days
The Big Draw 2009
The last horse-drawn mail van
GPO badges
A telegram sent in 1914
Please... don't make us comb you out. Buy your Radio and TV licence now.
50 Years of the BBC stamps, 1972
“Human letters” – Telegraph messenger boy A.S. Palmer delivers Miss Solomon and Miss McLellan to 10 Downing Street.
Airmail routes
Loading air mails for the Empire: Croydon 1934
Into the Air
Quickest Way by Airmail
Empire Air Mail Scheme
Speed the Air Mails
South African Air Mail
Mails for East and South Africa, India, Malaya etc
Empire Air Mail Scheme
Designs on Delivery exhibition
Posters on display as part of Designs on Delivery
Guests at the Designs on Delivery launch party
Chairman of the BPMA Trustees Professor Brian Goodey opens the exhibition
Dr Paul Rennie, Head of Context in the School of Graphic Designs at Central St Martins, speaks
George V Silver Jubilee stamps
A Barnett Freedman illustration from The Post Office: A review of the activities of the Post Office 1934
A model letter box that has been disposed of due to it’s condition
This letter box candle was disposed of as the material – wax – could be harmful to other objects in the collection
This Coronation Street tea-towel was disposed of as it is not directly relevant to the collection
The first of the London 2012 Olympics stamps
The FDC cancellations for the first London 2012 Olympics stamps
Post Office staff: communist activities
A tour of the Conservation Studio
2009 Christmas stamps
Collis Clement's 1970 Christmas stamp designs
Collis Clement's 1971 Christmas stamps
2009 Christmas postmark from Bethlehem
1992 Christmas stamps by Carroll, Dempsey and Thirkell
Notice intended for display on pillar box, 1931
‘Shop now and post early in Christmas week. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday’ by Barnett Freedman, 1938
‘Shop early, travel early, post early’ by Barnett Freedman, 1938 (copyright London Transport Museum)
‘Post much earlier this Christmas’ by Lewitt and Him, 1942
‘Christmas 1943. Post earlier than you did last year’ by Leonard Beaumont, 1943
‘Post even earlier this Christmas and not later than 18th December’ by Hans Schleger (Zero), 1944
Page from draft script of Post office publicity film 1955, featuring Bob Monkhouse
Christmas cards 2009
BPMA Building, Swindon
Chain Testing Equipment, Swindon
The impression of a rare handstamp with a wooden die
Provincial penny post handstamp from Hounslow, Middlesex, circa 1838
Handstamp impression, reading TO PAY LIABLE TO POSTCARD RATE
An impression of a parcel handstamp from Hadley, Wellington, Shropshire
An impression of a special handstamp celebrating the Penny Postage Jubilee in 1890
The impression of an address handstamp for GPO Headquarters, St Martins Le Grand
Impression of a handstamp celebrating the opening of the National Postal Museum (now BPMA) on 19th February 1969
Model letter box cigarette holder
Postwoman's overcoat
Postman’s long-sleeved waistcoat, 1908.
Mail guard's frock coat, 1861.
Illustration of the new uniform designed by Tait Brothers & Co for letter-carriers, mail-drivers and guards
Roger Green from Royal Mail using a special cancellation mark to commemorate the occasion.
Guests enjoy festive food and mulled wine before the speeches
Speeches from Adrian Steel (BPMA Director), Barrie Williams (Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Chairman of Trustees), and Brian Goodey (BPMA Chairman of Trustees).
Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust staff give tours of the Blists Hill site.
Chris Taft gives tours of the Museum of the Post Office in the Community.
Colin and Maragret Bedford
Colin Bedford riding his Hen & Chicks outside the Blists Hill Post Office
Mail from Normandy 1397
Visitors Book from the Hotel d’Europe
Poster advertisement for accommodation and a new Coach
Painting of mail train going past a mail bag apparatus point
Model of mail train bag apparatus in wood
1963 US stamp celebrating the abolition of slavery
Postal Union Congress £1 stamp, 1929
Air mail envelope. Image courtesy of The Trustees of the Bath Postal Museum
Congo (Katanga): 10 F Stamp with Air Katanga airplane tail
Central Telegraph Office (GPO West) decorated with flags for the Jubilee of George V
London 2010 Postcard #4
Classic Album Covers stamp issue, 7 January 2010
Freddie Mercury on a stamp, 1999
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Advertisement for the Greetings Telegram service
Advertisement for the Greetings Telegram service
A reproduction of the greetings telegram sent by George V to the Postmaster General used as advertising in post offices.
St Valentine’s day greetings telegram
Souvenir greetings telegram from the Post Office Exhibition, Portsmouth & Southsea, 1936
Souvenir greetings telegram from the Young People's Post Office Exhibition
George VI coronation telegram
Please Pack Parcels Very Carefully by Tom Eckersley
Night Mail poster, designed by Pat Keely
A registration envelope printed by McCorquodale for the Malayan state of Selangor
A McCorquodale aerogramme for Singapore
Stamp albums
Inside the Lincoln Stamp Album
Inside the Strand Stamp Album
POST 108/74
Museum of London Docklands
Visitors viewing the display
Drawings by Barnet College students
The Post Abolition team
Britain Loves Wikipedia
World Scout Jubilee Jamboree commemoratives, 1957
Youth Organisations Commemoratives, 1982
Girlguiding miniature sheet, 2010
Stamp Active Network CD
Stamp Active Network
A cartoon about the United Ireland trial
The copy deposition of the Queen a. Cornwall & Others
Who Do You Think You Are? Live
Who Do You Think You Are? Live
Pensions and gratuities
200th Anniversary of the Birth of Charles Darwin stamp issue, 2009
Charles Darwin Galapagos Islands miniature sheet, 2009
Death Centenary of Charles Darwin stamp issue, 1982
Darwin's Theory of Evolution stamp, 1999
John Collier's portrait of Charles Darwin on a stamp
4d Carmine
Visitors looking at pillar boxes at Britain Loves Wikipedia
Films by the GPO film unit are screened at Britain Loves Wikipedia
Another successful upload to the Britain Loves Wikipedia website
BPMA Friends stall at Spring Stampex 2010
Smilers created at Stampex by Friends of the BPMA
Royal Society 350th anniversary stamps
Lister Centenary Stamps, 1965
300th Anniversary of Isaac Newton's Principa Mathematica, 1987
Newton's Moon and Tides Diagram with Early Telescopes stamp, released as part of the Astronomy issue, 1990
A trio of science stamps
Philatelic Collections Frames at the British Library
The entrance to the British Library, St Pancras
Eminent Britons: Mary Wollstonecraft and Judy Fryd
Social Reformers: Elizabeth Fry
Aboltion of the Slave Trade: Hannah More
Women of Distinction presentation pack (2008)
Votes for Women stamp (1968)
Unadopted design for Votes for Women stamp
Unadopted design for Votes for Women stamp
A trio of women's suffrage stamps

David Gentleman's unadopted Encephelartos longifolia design

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