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Details Designer: Gordon Drummond Printer: Thomas De La Rue & Co Ltd Process: Lithography Paper:  Watermark: Block CA Perf: 13 (comb) Cylinders: N/A Sheet: Printed in sheets of at least two, and guillotined for individual sale. Quantity: Sheet Numbers

The 15c depicts the Adoration of the Shepherds by the School of Seville. It is still not certain who painted it but it was most likely a prominent Spanish artist as several copies survive in Spain. In the painting, the Virgin Mary gently lifts her new-born son while Saint Joseph,…

The Adoration of the Shepherds, sometimes still known as the Allendale Nativity, after a former owner, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Giorgione, completed in about 1505 to 1510. The attribution is now usual, although not universal; the usual other view is that it is an early Titian.…

The 11c depicts The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John by Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779). Details Series: 1970 Christmas Subject: The Holy Family – By Anton Raphael Mengs (Detail) Designer: Gordon Drummond Printer: Thomas De La Rue & Co Ltd Process: Lithography Paper:  Watermark: Multiple St Edwards Crown Block CA Perf: 13 (comb)…

The 3c stamp is based on an altarpiece by Giovanni Battista Pittoni, depicting both the Nativity (the birth of Christ and his adoration) and the Trinity (God the Father, Christ and the Holy Spirit). It was painted around 1740 and it is unknown for which church it was commissioned. Details…

Details Date of Issue: 3 November 1970 Date Withdrawn: 2 February 1971 Date Invalidated: Designer: Gordon Drummond Printer: Thomas De La Rue & Co Ltd Process: Lithography Paper:  Watermark: Multiple St Edwards Crown Block CA Perf: 13 (comb) Cylinders: 1A 1A 1A 1A  (15c) 1A 1A 1A 1A 1A (3c, 12c) 1B 1B 1B…