South Georgia 2013 Centenary of Whaler's Church, Grytviken
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date: 24h December 2013
- six values
- Design: Bee Design
- Printed by: BDT International Security Printing, Ireland
- Print process: lithography
- stamp format height 36mm x width 36mm
- Perforations: 13.25 x 13.25
Centenary of the Whalers Church, Grytviken
30p ~ church under construction, 1913 (built from prefabricated sections made in Strømmen, Norway)
50p ~ T E Binnie (portrait photograph by Edward B Binnie, second Resident Magistrate
65p ~ church interior, during a service
75p ~ church in present day (after restoration in late 1990s), photograph by Sarah Lurcock
£1 ~ church in snow, helicopter overhead (photograph by Robert Burton)
£1.20 ~ time lapse photograph of church at night by Dr Samantha Crimmin
- Note: two bells were installed and first rung on Christmas Eve 1913; the first service in the church (consecration) was on Christmas Day, 1913
