British Royal Mail has
launched a series of postage stamps commemorating well-known children’s toys from
the past 100 years.
The postage stamps
feature nostalgic designs to celebrate a century of British toy manufacturing.
The 10 stamps include
(1) The Space Hopper from the 1970s and 80s, (2) Meccano created by Frank
Hornby, (3) Action Man launched in 1966, (4) the Sindy doll created in the
1960s, (5) the Hornby Dublo train set, (6) the 1965 Spirograph that created
geometric drawings from plastic roulette curves, (7) Stickle Bricks invented by
Denys Fisher in 1969, (8) Fuzzy Felt created in 1950 by Lois Allen, (9) the
Herald Trojan Warriors toy soldiers, and (10) the Merrythought teddy bear from
the 1930s.
MARTINA NICOLLS is an international
aid and development consultant, and the author of:- Similar But Different
in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament
(2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a
Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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