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 The August  2010 issue of Freewheeling contained an article from club member Eric Davison who has been pursuing another avenue of his Rover passion by collecting and stamps with a Rover theme.   Here is his story so far.

 

 Some time ago (2001) I reported on my efforts to collect any postage stamps depicting a Rover vehicle. I found that they were rather sparse. There was just one sedan, a 1955 Rover 90 Saloon issued by Tuvalu. This was a nice double stamp showing a photo on one stamp and a line drawing on the other.

 

 

 

 

 

Land Rovers were more plentiful and I found four in a reasonably short time. However, since then it has been very slow. I have just one more sedan, a 1912 Rover 12C from Cambodia. By comparison Land Rovers have been prolific – I now have thirteen  - from places as widespread as the Congo, Greece, Iceland, Malaysia, Pakistan, Tuvalu and of course, Great Britain.

Special mention should be made of the personalised stamp of Geoff Collins' own Rover P5B which he very kindly sent to me.

My collection has been made to look larger by including some Viking ships as "The First Rovers" and finishing up with a nice mini sheet featuring the "Mars Rover Sojourner" and labelled Rovers in Space.