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New stamps inspired by Kipling stories.(Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories")(Brief Article)
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Date: 20020109
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A new set of British stamps is to be issued to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Rudyard Kipling's 'Just So Stories'.
Kipling himself illustrated his 12 stories but the Royal Mail decided not to use the author's drawings because they were only in black and white, according to the Daily Telegraph.
The 10 first class self-adhesive stamps will instead use watercolour designs by an Israeli artist, Izhar Cohen.
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