Next door to the National Museum and Parliament is the Postal Museum. I’m not really interested in stamp collecting, but I liked seeing the artwork and how stamps are made.
I got a coin of the same design from the penny crushing machine.
In the days before digital printing and etching, transferring the design to the small printing plate was a painstaking process.
The designs are actually drawn up pretty large on the original design, and then reduced down. You get more detail that way. My MA supervisor George Hardie did a lot of stamp designs over the years.
This was my favourite design.
Yellow is the post office colour in German-speaking countries.
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