Disney Grenada 1317-22, The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain 1985

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Grenada 1317-22 Disney, The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain 1985
Disney Postage Stamps started in approximately 1968 with the
European
republic of San Marino.
Two years later in 1970, the tiny European Republic of San Marino issued a set of 10 stamps featuring Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Uncle Scrooge, Pete, Donald's nephews, Gyro Gearloose, and Pluto. The last stamp issued had a picture of Walt Disney and in the background Mowgli and Bagheera from a scene from
Jungle Book
the last animated film in production when Walt passed away in 1966.
The stamps from the small Italian peninsula enclave were produced under a license from the Disney company. Obviously, the stamps were produced to generate revenue since it was highly unlikely that all the people purchasing them would use them for mailing items in that country.
The San Marino stamps' popularity and the money they generated was not lost on other countries
New official Disney stamps were issued in 1979 when the Disney Studios designed stamps for the "International Year of the Child." This was a project conceived and organized by philatelist William D. Cox, who knew people in both Walt Disney Productions and the Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corporation (the sales agents for the stamps). On October 25, 1979, Mickey Mouse appeared at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Avery Fisher Hall to preview the first three sets and their original artwork.
Originally, this "Disney World of Postage Stamps" was conceived as being a 24 stamp set to be issued by several foreign countries (Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, Grenada Grenadines, Maldives and Turks & Caicos Islands) but within 10 years it grew to be more than 100 sets issued by more than 20 countries all over the world.
All of the artwork for the sets was designed especially for the sets by Disney Studio, and even the production of the sets were supervised by Disney. There were souvenir sheets showing a scene from the Disney short or feature with one of the stamps incorporated into the artwork.
All of these stamps and the souvenir sheets had art that were reproduced from the original animated feature films. The success of these stamps sparked an annual tradition of releases.
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