Stamp stamp

Truly I have taken leave of my sense, because I have bought a presentation pack of stamps.

Now under any other circumstances this would be the piece of ephemera too far and you would be at complete liberty to laugh and point at me.  Except it looks like this.

Abram Games Jersey Stamps presentation pack cover

Rather good, isn’t it?

These are the stamps inside, and the blurb tells me that they are by Abram Games, so I am rather assuming the cover is too.

Abram Games Jersey set of stamps 1975

The pack also tells me that they commissioned Games because of his holiday posters, which for me immediately brought this one to mind.

Abram Games Jersey deckchair poster 1950s

But when I googled, the image that came up time and time again was not that deckchair but his parasol instead.

Abram Games Jersey poster 1951 tourism

This is the one in the collection of MoMA in New York, the one that has sold for £1,700 at Christies, and is clearly the big cheese in the world of Abram Games Jersey posters.  Which just goes to show how little I know.

But in the course of tracing its triumphs, I also found that it had an interesting afterlife too.  It was, it appears, reversioned as a BEA poster too, which isn’t something I’ve ever come across before.

Abram Games Jersey poster used for BEA 1951

And then there’s this: proof that a great graphic idea can be easily misapplied.

Jersey umbrella mishap

Games must have loved that.

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