Postal Heritage Gifts
The ultimate gifts for philatelists and postal heritage enthusiasts!
Help more and more people to understand and enjoy Britain's postal heritage by giving a postal heritage gift – share your own enjoyment, or give to someone you know will treasure it.
How it works
This is a present the recipient can enjoy knowing they are helping to preserve Britain's postal heritage for generations to come.
These items are 'virtual gifts', meaning the recipient won't actually receive an original poster or a piece of stamp design artwork. Your donation will go towards supporting the full range of the BPMA's conservation, cataloguing and access work, including your selected project.
For each gift you order you will receive a greetings card including information explaining how we could use your donation to which you can add your own personal message. An example of the greetings card is shown, left (card subject to change).
Delivery is free of charge for virtual gifts (P&P charges will apply if you order other BPMA shop products with a virtual gift).
To order
- Choose the gift that excites you the most.
- Download and print the order form.
- Fill in the form and post to us with payment. Alternatively, you can order over the telephone by calling 020 7239 5125.
Virtual Gift #1: Help preserve an original piece of stamp artwork
£25 (includes free Victorian Innovation Commemorative cover)
Behind every stamp issued lies a range of early stage, final and unadopted designs, trials, and essays: precious yet often delicate pieces of original art. Just £25 will help support the preservation mounting, scanning, and cataloguing of this unique artwork – preserving it for generations to come.
Why not complete your gift with a copy of A Timeless Classic: The evolution of Machin’s icon? Available individually through our online shop or telephone 020 7239 5125 to order together with the Virtual Gift.
Virtual Gift #2: Help preserve a poster for posterity
£30 (includes free Tom Eckersley poster fridge magnet)
From the 1930s onwards the Post Office became a leader in the field of poster design, commissioning some of Britain's leading artists and designers: Tom Eckersley, Jan Lewitt and Edward McKnight Kauffer to name but a few. Publicity campaigns used posters to communicate now familiar messages including 'Post Early', 'Pack Your Parcels Carefully', and 'Always Remember To Use Your Postcode'. Just £30 will cover the cost of housing a poster within a protective transparent pocket and the production of a high resolution digital scan of one of these much loved items – all enabling safe handling of the poster and the availability of a good quality image to ensure that the original is preserved for posterity.
Why not complete your gift with a reproduction GPO poster? Available from our poster website at www.postalheritageprints.org.uk
Thank you
By purchasing these gifts you will be supporting our work helping more and more people to understand and enjoy Britain's postal heritage for generations to come – thank you!
From the blog
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