Shakespeare Festival Stamps

These Post Office stamps were affixed to specially designed envelopes and postmarked on the first day that the stamps were issued.

23.04.1964 | Shakespeare's Birthplace, Postmarked at Stratford upon Avon

sold out View FDCs for this issue Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare's Birthplace Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare's Birthplace
Click on image for larger view
7800
23rd April 1964 - Shakespeare Festival
Stamp Type:
Stamp Details:
3d Puck & Bottom - A Midsummer Night's Dream ...      ▼ expand stamp details ▼
6d Feste - Twelfth Night
1/3d Balcony Scene - Romeo and Juliet
1/6d Eve of Agincourt - Henry V
2/6d (non-phos. only) Hamlet contemplating Yorick's Skull
Producer/Series:
Postmark:
Stratford upon Avon, Shakespeare Festival, Special Handstamp
Reference Images:
Commemorative Stamp
Presentation Pack
Postmark illustrations

Sold Out varieties of this First Day Cover below.
Shakespeare Festival, Special Handstamp
Official Cover
phosphor
£30
Soldout
FDI Postmark
phosphor
£25
Soldout
Why not take a look at other items on a similar theme?
Literature
Stage & Cinema