100 Years of Gerald Durrell: Dedication - Stamps First Day Cover

£20.60 / In Stock

This First Day Cover displays the stamps from our '100 Years of Gerald Durrell: Dedication' issue.

This First Day Cover is an exclusively produced item; all the stamps are affixed to a specially commissioned full-colour envelope and cancelled with a Jersey Post First Day of Issue special date stamp. Information and technical details of the issue are printed on the reverse.

Date of issue	11-06-2025
Withdrawal date	11-06-2027
Printer	Words & Spaces, Isle of Man
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.