N P 1926

Stamps from the North Pole.
For 20 years, beginning in 1920, the children of J.R.R.Tolkien received illustrated letters from Father Christmas.
from J.R.R. Tolkien: The Father Christmas Letters, George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 1976

North Shore, Lake Superior, oil on canvas,1926
from Lawren Harris, MacMillan of Canada, 1969, (1976 ed.)

The Philatelic Foundation

Foundations of Philately by Winthrop S. Boggs, The Philatelic Foundation, NY, 1955