British Council Stamps

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

25.09.1984 | Samuel Johnson Bicentenary, Postmarked at Chesterfield

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Stock Code:

19073

Issue:

25th September 1984 - British Council

Stamp Type:

Commemoratives

Stamp Details:

17p Medicine
22p Arts
31p Construction
34p Language

Producer/Series: Bradbury ( LFDC No 37 )

Postmark:

Chesterfield CDS Postmark

Notes: With printed cachet: 'Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?' - Dr Johnson in a famous letter to the Earl of Chesterfield

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Available varieties of this First Day Cover.

click to view large	Lichfield Postmark StockCode: 19070 Samuel Johnson, Special Handstamp Official Cover Signed by Frank Muir former presenter of word games on TV and radio	$101.25 Last One! Add to Wishlist Add to Basket
click to view large	Lichfield Postmark StockCode: 746 Samuel Johnson, Special Handstamp Official Cover	$67.50 Add to Wishlist Add to Basket
click to view large	Lichfield Postmark StockCode: 747 Samuel Johnson, Special Handstamp Official Cover Autographed By: Lord Lichfield ( President of Samuel Johnson Society ) 100 copies Worldwide.	$40.50 Add to Wishlist Add to Basket
click to view large	Market Bosworth Postmark StockCode: 19072 CDS Postmark With printed cachet: For a few months in 1733 the young Sam. Johnson 'accepted of an offer to be employed as usher in the school of Market Bosworth'	$108 Two Left! Add to Wishlist Add to Basket

Sold Out varieties of this First Day Cover below.

click to view large	Oxford Postmark StockCode: 18402 Centenary of the Oxford English Dictionary, Special Handstamp Autographed By: Bamber Gascoigne ( Former presenter of 'University Challenge' )	$168.75 Soldout
	Chesterfield Postmark StockCode: 19073 CDS Postmark With printed cachet: 'Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?' - Dr Johnson in a famous letter to the Earl of Chesterfield	$33.75 Soldout
	Uttoxeter Postmark StockCode: 19071 CDS Postmark With printed cachet: Where Johnson went in bad weather and, in contrition for once refusing to attend his father, stood bareheaded on the spot where his father's bookstall used to stand in the market	$33.75 Soldout

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The above Royal Mail British Council stamps were issued on 25 September 1984 by Royal Mail and feature the following stamp designs: 17p Medicine; 22p Arts; 31p Construction; 34p Language. The Samuel Johnson Bicentenary first day cover with the Chesterfield CDS Postmark postmark has been produced by Bradbury and features these stamps which can make a very collectible and lovely gift.