Discworld Series Author TERRY PRATCHETT Signed 7.11.2006 Christmas FDC Bath

Description: Buckingham first day Cover with ‘Christmas’ miniature sheet, issued 7 November 2006. The cover has the genuine hand signed it, signature of Terry Pratchett, a world renowned author and patron of the Bath Postal Musem. Postmarked:- Opening The New Postal Museum, Northgate St, Bath, 7.11.06. Pictorial Mailcoach in the centre. It has 6 stamps:- a large and small 1st class stamp featuring Father Christmas sitting on a chimney with his sack of presents, a large and small 2nd class stamp with a smiling snowman, 72p with a reindeer and the £1.12 stamp has a Christmas tree on it. Nice coloured illustration on the cover of a Mailcoach and Horses- Christmas Mail Coach Run. Genuine hand Signed signature of Terry Pratchett on the front Cover. The reverse of the cover has a gold cachet which states :- World famous author and patron of the Bath Postal Museum, Terry Pratchett, OBE, will sign no more than 200 Buckingham, Mail Coach Run covers, which feature the 2006 Christmas miniature sheet and our official Bath Postal Museum pmk. This cover is number 41 of 200. Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (1948-2015) was an English humourist, satirist and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. His first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which he wrote two books a year on average. His final Discworld novel, The Shepherds Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death. Pratchett with more than 85 million books sold worldwide in 37 languages was the U.K.’s best selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Years Honours.In December 2007, he announced that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. He later made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer’s Research Trust (now Alzheimer’s Research UK), filmed a television programme chronicling his experiences with the disease for the BBC, and also became a patron for Alzheimer’s Research UK. Information sheet about Terry Pratchett enclosed. The reverse of the cover has information entitled ‘The Opening Of The New Bath Postal Museum’. Sorry listings are for 1 month only. 823150

Price: 90 GBP

Location: St albans, Hertfordshire

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