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Stamp-worthy - initially 2 choices - one current, one past
« on: May 05, 2016, 11:44:49 AM »
With it being the week that Sir David Attenborough turns 90, my mind turned to whether he will ever appear on a UK postage stamp.

Currently, the rule is that the only living person allowed to appear on a stamp is the Monarch and other Royals.  If that were to change, which person - currently alive - would you like to see on a UK stamp, and secondly, who (now deceased) do you believe would have been worthy of appearing on a stamp within their lifetime? 

I am happy to take 'bids' for people who lived before stamps came into being (so someone could suggest Christopher Marlowe - 16th century playwright and poet). 

May I make one other condition:  initially, will folk restrict themselves to one living person and one 'historical' person.  After a while, I will lift this restricton, but it will allow people to have as wide a pool to choose from as possible in the early days.

The names I immediately came up with were Sir David Attenborough and Alan Turing.
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Re: Stamp-worthy - initially 2 choices - one current, one past
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2016, 11:47:22 AM »
Shakespeare?   
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Re: Stamp-worthy - initially 2 choices - one current, one past
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2016, 12:03:14 PM »
Apart from me of course, LOL, I think David Attenborough is a good choice. I remember him so well from when I was very young, we had a TV in 1954.

As for a historical figure, I am struggling a bit, definitely NOT Shakespeare though.
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Re: Stamp-worthy - initially 2 choices - one current, one past
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2016, 12:06:43 PM »
I'd go with David Attenborough too.
Just thought of someone else - Charles Babbage.
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Re: Stamp-worthy - initially 2 choices - one current, one past
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2016, 12:09:20 PM »
If I had to choose a historical figure it would probably be Charles Darwin.
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Re: Stamp-worthy - initially 2 choices - one current, one past
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2016, 12:16:22 PM »
Yes, there are so many.  I recently saw a very moving film about Darwin and his family, still haven't quite got over it  :'(.  I hadn't realised his home, Down House, was so near to us, I will pop down there one of these days, in the summer.  It looks interesting.

However, we digress.  Brunel is a favourite too.

I've had more than one dead person, Hope.  Sorry.  Sticking with David Attenborough for the living one.
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Re: Stamp-worthy - initially 2 choices - one current, one past
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2016, 12:45:06 PM »
Dear Hope,

Albert Einstein, Sir Terry Pratchett, actually can we have fictional.

https://sffbookreview.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/nac-mac-feegle.jpg

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Re: Stamp-worthy - initially 2 choices - one current, one past
« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2016, 01:07:20 PM »
Ah well, if we can have fictional I'd say, ''Sherlock Holmes''.
Hope, don't give up hope on this thread  :D, we are taking it seriously but it is fun too.
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Re: Stamp-worthy - initially 2 choices - one current, one past
« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2016, 01:28:06 PM »
Quote from: Gonnagle on May 05, 2016, 12:45:06 PM
Dear Hope,

Albert Einstein, Sir Terry Pratchett, actually can we have fictional.

https://sffbookreview.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/nac-mac-feegle.jpg

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Fictional - not at the moment, please.  I may allow that once I lift the 'number of suggestions' limit from 1 living and 1 deceased.
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Re: Stamp-worthy - initially 2 choices - one current, one past
« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2016, 01:30:22 PM »
Note the rule no longer applies - see link as to its rather involved history

http://peterjennings.co.uk/articles/people.pdf

Good thread though and good suggestions to start off. The Turing suggestion triggers whether you might combine it as a series on computing and have Tim Berners Lee?
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Re: Stamp-worthy - initially 2 choices - one current, one past
« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2016, 01:32:07 PM »
Quote from: Gonnagle on May 05, 2016, 12:45:06 PM
Dear Hope,

Albert Einstein, Sir Terry Pratchett, actually can we have fictional.

https://sffbookreview.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/nac-mac-feegle.jpg

Gonnagle.

Albert Einstein? I assumed the people named would be British.

How about Yehudi Menuhin - a fine musician and a great human being? And living? I know - Richard Dawkins!
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Re: Stamp-worthy - initially 2 choices - one current, one past
« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2016, 07:17:46 PM »
Quote from: Harrowby Hall on May 05, 2016, 01:32:07 PM
Albert Einstein? I assumed the people named would be British.

How about Yehudi Menuhin - a fine musician and a great human being? And living? I know - Richard Dawkins!
Yes....he's used to getting a good licking.
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Re: Stamp-worthy - initially 2 choices - one current, one past
« Reply #12 on: May 05, 2016, 09:24:43 PM »
Stanley Stamp, the famous collector of Gibbons.

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Re: Stamp-worthy - initially 2 choices - one current, one past
« Reply #13 on: May 05, 2016, 11:00:06 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on May 05, 2016, 01:30:22 PM
Note the rule no longer applies - see link as to its rather involved history

http://peterjennings.co.uk/articles/people.pdf

Good thread though and good suggestions to start off. The Turing suggestion triggers whether you might combine it as a series on computing and have Tim Berners Lee?
The internet has been a bit of a mixed blessing though.....perhaps we should treat Berners Lee in the same ''tone'' as Oppenheimer.
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