Sunday, December 13, 2015

Christmas Island

In 1977 Christmas Island issued this souvenir sheet of
 The Twelve Days of Christmas
there is a nice bottom frame with the music, but what I particularly like is, 
that for the seventh day, there are seven black swans a swimming.

So named because it was founded on Christmas Day in 1643, 
it consists of a solitary island in the Indian Ocean and is closer to the Indonesian island of Java than to Australia, of which it is a territory (since 1958)
only 12 days until Christmas!
see other Christmas stamps at Sunday Stamps II

5 comments:

  1. This is a gorgeous set of stamps. I really like that each number has its own stamp.

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  2. This is a really original stamp, love it!

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  3. Beautiful and so much better than the 12 days shown on GB stamps years ago.

    Thanks for dating my Canadian stamps.

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  4. Lovely sheet. They have produced some great stamps over the years for Christmas.

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