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
This is a gorgeous set of stamps. I really like that each number has its own stamp.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really original stamp, love it!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and so much better than the 12 days shown on GB stamps years ago.
ReplyDeleteThanks for dating my Canadian stamps.
A beautiful set!
ReplyDeleteLovely sheet. They have produced some great stamps over the years for Christmas.
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