The Furniss Jubilee Envelope
Introduction
1890 saw Great Britain's first commemorative postal stationery in celebration of the introduction of Uniform Penny Postage and the Penny Black fifty years earlier.Several major events took place, including the Conversazione & Exhibition at the Guildhall organised by The City Corporation of London. There was also a grand Post Office Conversazione at South Kensington Museum. Special postal stationery was prepared for these events.
The official Jubilee envelope, issued on 2nd July 1890, was extremely popular with over 250,000 copies sold. Yet, in the same way as the Mulready envelope in 1840, the Jubilee envelope was also the subject of parody.
Plan of the Display
- Title, Introduction and Plan
- Documents relating to the release of the envelope, including the Black Proof
- Postal Usage
- Printing Errors
- Stamp Collectors Fortnightly Reâ€"issue in 1906
- Account of the Celebration of the Jubilee by The General Post Office
- The Penny Postage Jubilee by Phil in 1891
- The Penny Postage Jubilee by Werner Bauschke, 1989
- Postal Heritage Archives Commitee Papers & Collections