Snowman & Father Christmas Author, RAYMOND BRIGGS Signed 2.11.2004 Christmas FDC

Description: Buckingham first day cover with the Christmas miniature sheet featuring ‘Father Christmas’ which was issued 2nd November 2004.Two of the United Kingdom’s greatest Children’s authors are celebrated in Royal Mail’s Christmas and Animal Tales Series. Raymond Redvers Briggs and Michael Bond.Raymond Briggs is an English, illustrator, cartoonist, graphic, novelist, and author, who has achieved both critical and popular success among adults and children, most notably, with his comic book style stories; The Snowmsn, Father Christmas, and Fungus the Bogeyman. The stamps in the sheet are:-2nd Father Christmas on snowy roof1st Celebrating the Sunrise.400 On rooff in gale57p With Umbrella in rain68p In fog on edge of roof with torch£1.12 Sheltering from hailstorm behind Chimney Postmarked:-Christmas Common, Watlington, Oxford, 2.11.04. Pictorial reindeer in the centre.The cover has the genuine hand signed signature of Raymond Briggs. Raymond Redvers Briggs CBE (1934-2002) was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his 1978 story ‘The Snowman’ a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas. His other notable works are ‘Father Christmas’, ‘The Bear’, ‘Fungus the Bogeyman’, ‘When The Wind Blows’, ‘Ug’, and ‘Ethel and Ernest ‘. Coloured image on the front cover of ‘Father Christmas’. The information on the reverse of the cover is ‘Father Christmas’ and this gives information about Raymond Briggs. Sorry listings are for 1 month only. 82350

Price: 40 GBP

Location: St albans, Hertfordshire

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