100 Years of Gerald Durrell: Dedication - £1.90 Sheet

£19.00

A Sheet of 10 Stamps from our '100 Years of Gerald Durrell: Dedication' issue.

The stamp sheets give the discerning collector access to all the printer’s marks and any additional information on the selvedges. The selvedges include the traffic lights which is a term used by collectors to denote the check dots (or colour dabs) printed in the sheet margins of stamps printed by modern offset litho or photogravure methods. They assist in checking that all the colours have printed correctly.

Most of our selvedge sheets also contain a plate number; a numeral, occasionally with a letter suffix, usually inscribed on the sheet margins to denote the plate from which the stamps were printed - for example 1A. All of our mint/cto products are carefully prepared by our own team and supplied in glassine bags to ensure you receive them in pristine condition.

Date of issue	11-06-2025
Withdrawal date	11-06-2027
Designer	Images courtesy of Durrell Wildlife
Printer	bpost, Belgium
Size	Stamp size: 35mm x 35mm.
Process	four colour process lithography
Denominations	80p, £1.20, £1.35, £1.90, £2.30, £3.00, £3.90, £4.85

Additional Information

Following on from the stamp set issued in January this year 100 Years of Gerald Durrell: Conservation, this set focuses more on the person behind the legacy. To gain an understanding of who Gerald was, the Jersey Post Philatelic team met up with Gerald Durrell’s widow, Lee Durrell and Archivist Catherine Kirby who were incredibly helpful in providing insight into Gerald Durrell.

Upon looking through the archive, Gerald’s playful nature could be seen throughout the documented meeting notes, letters and diary entries which included a number of doodles, affectionately renamed zoodles. To inject an element of his fun personality to the stamps, the ‘zoodles’ have been imposed over the photographs.