Description

Single privately created 2022 £1 Lindisfarne (Holy Island) stamp by Kevin Lynch, produced following a visit to Northumberland, and depicting the refuge box on the island’s causeway.

Issued on 23 May, just 300 of this latest stamp were printed, 30 of which were used on postcards mailed from the island’s Royal Mail postbox.

U/M / Unmounted Mint / MNH / Mint Never Hinged.

About Lindisfarne (Holy Island)

Located off the coast of Northumberland, Holy Island, or Lindisfarne, is an island of around 1,000 acres that is home to 180 people and a functioning British Post Office.

Vehicular access to Holy Island is via the famous causeway, though visitors’ inability to check the tide times always leads to some having to dangerously abandon their cars to the waves while they wait it out in the elevated refuge box.

The earliest Lindisfarne stamps were produced in 1987 by the late Ken Gibson. Devon-based Cinderella creator Kevin Lynch followed this up with a (now sold out) issue in 2012, and another in 2022.