Howard Brown designs Dickens stamps for Royal Mail
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Independent stamp designer Howard Brown has designed a set of stamps commemorating the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth year using illustrations by Joseph Clayton Clarke.
2nd Class, Mr Bumble from Oliver Twist
The set of six stamps, released tomorrow, captures characters from novels including Oliver Twist and The Pickwick papers.
£1.90, Mr Micawber from David Copperfield
Jospeh Clayton Clarke, also known as Kyd, who worked predominantly in the nineteenth century, was an illustrator, designer of cigarette cards and postcards.
£1.28, Captain Cuttle from Dombey and Son
Illustrations used for the stamps are taken from his study Character Sketches from Charles Dickens (1890).
87p, Mrs Gamp from Martin Chuzzlewitt
A miniature sheet of four stamps based on original illustrations by artist Hablot Knight Browne, also known as Phiz, will be released simultaneously.
1st Class, Mr Pickwick, from The Pickwick Papers
Browne was an illustrator of books by Dickens, and for the sheet of four, his work from Nicholas Nickleby, Bleak House, Little Dorrit and a Tale of Two Cities has been used.
77p, The Marchioness, from The Old Curiosity Shop
Consultancy Interabang has designed a presentation pack for the sheet of four and a first day cover pack for the set of six.
Miniature sheet of four 1st class stamps
The first day cover pack shows an ‘illustrated biography’ based around copy commissioned by the consultancy to Dickens’ great great great granddaughter and novelist Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, and new illustrations by Caroline Crunch, according to Interabang co-founder Adam Giles.
First day cover presentation pack by Interabang
A tie-up between The Royal Mail and The Royal Mint has led to a third presentation pack, also designed by Interabang, which brings together a Dickens two pound coin and the set of six stamps.
First day cover pack designed by Interabang based on design of serialised Dickens publications
