Cinderellas promote heritage railway, Penny Black anniversary

Today, I want to share images of stamps I received in the mail last week from two correspondents of mine. One of the sets could, I suppose, perhaps qualify as local post stamps, while the stamps in the other set are strictly cinderellas, but they’re all pretty neat.

The first item is a souvenir sheet for Colne Valley Railway, which describes itself as a “heritage steam & diesel railway in Essex” and operates a full-size steam locomotive and post office car and has other miniature an model trains on display.

This souvenir sheet, which contains 50p, £1, and £2 stamps, was printed by Alan B. of Adanaland fame for a fundraiser in 2007.

The other cinderella stamps of note came from Donovan B., formerly of the Letter Writers Alliance, and celebrate the 185th anniversary of the Penny Black.

As you can see, Donovan produced these stamps in two different sizes in the same block. I’m not sure if she removed pins from her perforator to achieve this layout, or if she fed only the left edge of the sheet under the perforating pins, but the result is really slick in either case.

Fun stuff to receive in the mail!

Published 2025-05-12 Last updated 2025-05-22