Ascension 2012 Christmas 2012. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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First Day Cover

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• Issue date: 15th November 2012
• four values
• Designed by: G. L. Vasarhelyi
• Printed by: Cartor, France
• Print process: lithography
• stamp format height 28mm x width 42mm, or height 42mm x width 28mm (50p, £1.25)
• Perforations: 13.2 x 13.4 (25p, 40p) or 13.4 x 13.2

Christmas 2012. Scenes from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

25p - Scrooge deliberately ignores a group of carol singers
40p – Scrooge visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, his former business partner
50p - Bob Cratchit carrying his crippled son ‘Tiny’ Tim on his shoulders
£1.25 – Delivery of turkey to Bob Cratchit after Scrooge’s change of heart over Christmas

25p	40p
50p	£1.25

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First Day Cover