Jodrell Bank stamps continued
Barbuda, 1986
The Caribbean island of Barbuda showed the Jodrell Bank dish on one of its
Halley’s Comet stamps issued in 1986. The contrast with the traditional refracting
telescope in the background may have been intended to convey the advances in
astronomy since the previous appearance of Halley’s Comet in 1910.
Stanley Gibbons no. 866
Liechtenstein, 1988
In 1988 Liechtenstein produced a pair of stamps on that year’s Europa theme of Transport and Communications. For the Communications stamp
they depicted the dish aerial at Jodrell Bank, receiving or emitting a string
of data. The Transport stamp showed a magnetically levitated monorail train.
Stanley Gibbons no. 931
Tanzania, 1993
In 1993 Tanzania produced a commemorative set for the 450th anniversary of the
death of Nicolaus Copernicus which included this realistic depiction of Jodrell
Bank. The Gibbons Simplified catalogue relegates this set to the Appendix for
Tanzania, a fate reserved for stamps deemed not to have been issued for normal
postal use. Consequently it has no SG number, although the number in the Scott
catalogue (US) is 1034.
Montserrat, 1996
This souvenir sheet, issued by the island of Montserrat in the West Indies,
accompanied a set of four stamps commemorating the centenary of Guglielmo
Marconi’s first radio transmissions. The sheet depicts Pioneer 5, an early space probe
launched in 1960, noting that it had “powerful 150-watt transmitters and maintained radio contact with Earth for 106
days when over 22 million miles distant”. Jodrell Bank was one of the ground stations that tracked Pioneer 5 and the
probe’s final transmissions were received there.
Stanley Gibbons no. MS944
