Terry also delivered a name for each year of the stamps, starting with the Year of the Prawn. Terry personally approved the designs, ensuring they were within the Discworld canon, and making suggestions for the final designs (at least in the early days with his involvement lessening for obvious reasons). Terry gave Colin his copy of Unissued stamps of King George VI by David Horry, which inspired some of the humour of the stamp design and paved the way for DW stamps to echo stamps familiar to us. Terry had actually specified to Colin Edwards and Alan Batley (designer and artist for the original stamps and many more of the early years) to make them so they would not look out of place in a Victorian or Edwardian collection. I would admire the old turn-of-the-20th-century stamps much more than the modern ones. They evoked the real stamps of classic eras. Then came that pivotal book, Going Postal.Īpart from being a top rate story, and very Discworldy, there were pictures of the stamps mentioned in the story just as described! What was more you could purchase them, and more! I was hooked on stamps again. I started reading and enjoying the Discworld novels around 2000, working slowly through them. But with a new family something had to go and so stamps were laid aside. I had collected stamps from childhood and in the 70s my interests had spread to Cinderellas chiefly GB island posts. How did you become interested in Discworld stamps? Pratchett's Discworld books inspired a multitude of Cinderella stamps as our interview with collector Steve Tandy reveals… Famous for writing many hugely popular fantasy books, such as the lengthy Discworld series, Terry Pratchett also had strong links with philately. Stamp collectors joined book-lovers recently to pay tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett who sadly died at the age of 66.
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