BRITISH PHILATELIC BULLETIN

Peter Pan A new issue celebrates the 150th

Technical details Five stamps featuring Peter Pan a favourite of children’s literature will be available from post offices, Royal Mail Tallents House Edinburgh, Printer De La Rue and philatelic outlets from 20 August. The stamps mark the 150th anniver­ Process Gravure sary of the founding of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Chil­ Stamp size 41 x 30mm dren in London. Sir James Barrie, author of Peter Pan, gifted the royalties Perforation 15x14 to the Hospital. Phosphor 2nd class one band, others two bands The stamps feature characters from the play: 2nd class (ipp) Tinkerbell; e Gum PVA 1st class (27p) the Darling children against the clockface of ‘Big Ben’; (European rate, 37p) the crocodile; 47P Captain Hook; and 68p Peter Pan Gutter pairs Vertical about to fly. The Queen’s silhouette, value or service indicator are printed in gold at top left; gold is also used in parts of the designs. The stamps are the work of Tutssels design group who designed the 1996 Children’s tv stamps and the 1999 Welsh country definitive issue.

First day facilities Unstamped Royal Mail fdc envelopes will be avail­ able from main post offices and philatelic outlets about a week before 20 August, price 25p. Orders for serviced fdcs with the stamps cancelled by a pictorial first day postmark of Royal Mail Tallents House Edinburgh or Hook must reach Tallents House (address below) by the day of issue. Price £2.74 uk (including vat) or £2.34 overseas (no vat). Collectors may send stamped covers on the day of issue to: Royal Mail, Tallents House, 21 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh eh 12 9PB (Tallents House postmark), or Special Handstamp Centre, Royal Mail, Wexham Road, Slough sli iaa (Hook postmark), marking the outer envelope ‘FD0227’ (Tallents House), or ‘FD0228’ (Hook). Covers can be posted or handed in at main post offices for the Hook postmark. Details of other handstamps for 20 August will be announced in the British Postmark Bulletin - available on subscription from Tallents House (£10 UK/Europe; £21.75 elsewhere). For a sample copy write to: The Edi­ tor, British Postmark Bulletin, Royal Mail, 2-14 Bunhill Row, London eciy 8hq.

Philatelic products A well-illustrated pack containing the five stamps (price £2.35) and stamp cards (25P each) will be available from main post offices and philatelic outlets.

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The stamps feature characters from the play Peter Pan, from left: Tinkerbell, the Darling children against the clockface of ‘Big Ben’, the crocodile, Captain Hook, and Peter Pan about to fly. The stamps were designed by Tutssels design group, who also designed the 1996 Children’s TV stamps and the 1999 Welsh country issue. 3 0 ' ^

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Above: The Peter Pan statue Peter Pan These are the first British stamps to feature Peter Pan although in Kensington Gardens, by Sir an illustration by Lucie Attwell (1921) and a portrait of the author, Sir George Frampton, and Great Ormond Street Hospital (the James Barrie, featured on a Scottish aerogramme issued in 1987 to mark Hospital for Sick Children). the 50th anniversary of his death. Barrie was born in Kirriemuir in i860 and educated at Dumfries Academy and Edinburgh University. In 1883 he left Scotland to work on the Nottingham Daily Journal before coming to London in 1885. He began writing novels such as A Window in Thrums (based on Kirriemuir), published in 1889, and then turned his attention to the theatre. He is perhaps best remembered for Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up a dramatic fantasy first performed in 1904 and pub­ lished in book form, under the title Peter and Wendy, in 1911. It is the story of the three children of Mr and Mrs Darling Wendy, John, and Michael, the nurse Nana (a Newfoundland dog) and the motherless Peter Pan who, with the fairy Tinker Bell, takes the children to Never-Never Land where they encounter Redskins and pirates, including Captain Hook and Smee. The play started as stories invented by Barrie to tell the five sons of Arthur and Sylvia Llewellyn Davis who he befriended in Kensington Gardens; he provided the boys with a home when their parents died. Three of the boys died tragically: George was killed in the First World War, Michael drowned in the Thames in 1921, and Peter committed suicide in i960. Barrie referred to Michael as ‘the boy who will never grow old.’ Peter Pan was written partly in the summerhouse in the garden of Bar­ rie’s London home in Bayswater Road and partly in the pine woods behind his country home Blacklake Cottage at Farnham in Surrey His New­ foundland dog, Luath - the inspiration for Nana - is buried there. A statue of Peter Pan, designed by Sir George Frampton at Barrie’s expense, was erected in Kensington Gardens in 1912. A blue plaque was affixed to his

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