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Centenary of First Adhesive Postage Stamps

Great Britain. 1940

Design by H.L. Palmer
Lettering and crown by Eric Gill

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Eric Gill (1882–1940), was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter, and printmaker. His designs for the Golden Cockerel Press and Hague & Gill (the commercial press he ran with his son-in-law) are typical of the post-Kelmscott Arts & Crafts movement. He designed faces for hand-setting, Monotype, and Linotype. To see more of his faces, click here.

Aries
Aries

Gill Sans
Gill Sans

Joanna
Joanna

Perpetua
Perpetua

References

Arman, F. Marcus. “Eric Gill and Edmund Dulac: Designers of Stamps.” Philatelic Bulletin, (April 1970): 4–7.

———. “Eric Gill and Edmund Dulac: Artists and Men of Letters.” Philatelic Bulletin, (June 1970): 3–6.

The British Postal Museum & Archive, Archive File p 150/05/04/02 1940 Stamp Centenary Issue.

Gill, Eric. Letters of Eric Gill, edited by Walter Shewring. The Devin-Adair Company, 1948.

———. Notes on Postage Stamps. Kat Ran Press, 2011.

Rose, Stuart. Royal Mail Stamps: A Survey of British Stamp Design. Phaidon Press Limited, 1980.

Rutt, David. “Eric Gill: Stamp Designer Manqué.” Typos 5 (London College of Printing, 1982): 29–32.

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