Portfolio
Collection object
1992.0017.1
H. 21.6 W. 15.8
Folder. Green covered An Post folder, containing three first day covers [17.2-4] by Pamela Leonard, a copy of the Irish Philatelic Bulletin issue dated 25 Feb 1992, and a short type-written biography of the artist by Pat McKenna, Art Historian at the Limerick College of Art; the folder contained in a white envelope of the Irish Philatelic Service. On the inside cover are mint condition stamps by two artists in philatelic mounts; uppermost are the two 1992 Olympic Games Barcelona 1992 issues, designed by Colin Harrison, depicting boxing on the 32p and sailing on the 44p stamps; below that the 28p Sli na Slainte stamp designed by Pamela Leonard; below that printed in Irish then English "Presented/ with The Compliments of/ An Post"; at bottom are the two circular commemorative first day of issue cancellations, both with "Baile atha Cliath/ La A Chead Eisiuna 25 II 1992" on the outside of the circle, with the five Olympic rings under a shamrock at the centre of the Olympic cancellation, and da Vinci's known study of a man inside a square and a circle arms outstretched, in the centre of the Sli na Slainte cancellation.
Pamela Leonard (artist)