longest reign
Another milestone. Back in September on the 9th the Queen became the longest serving reigning monarch surpassing Queen Victoria’s reign. This indeed needed a mailer to celebrate this. I thought I’d let the dates speak for themselves by using matching stamps with the same number values. The top mailers stamps spelt out the date she became the longest reigning monarch, 9.9.2015, and the bottom used the years which she has reigned, 1952-2015. Now I posted both at the same time and from the same place, but one turned up mashed, opened, badly franked with biro on the stamps that didn’t get franked, while the other turned up a day later sealed in a 1st class bag with perfect souvenir franks. Why? Who knows, they both didn’t add up to a 1st class stamp, can only guess they got one over the other, or just maybe took offence that on one I spelt monarch wrong!

















