Collecting Disney theme park stamps: an expert guide
Bring some fun and colour to your stamp collecting by starting a Disney theme park theme. This thematic has plenty of stamps to look out for and lots of sub themes, as our expert guide reveals.
Collecting Disney theme park stamps: an expert guide
Bring some fun and colour to your stamp collecting by starting a Disney theme park theme. This thematic has plenty of stamps to look out for and lots of sub themes, as our expert guide reveals.
On 17 July 1955, Disneyland, the world’s first theme park opened in Anaheim, California. Since then, Disney theme parks have appeared in Orlando, Tokyo, Paris and Hong Kong with another about to commence construction in Shanghai.
The first stamp to feature a part of Disneyland in the design is a commemorative to Walt Disney issued by the United States in 1968. The ‘Sleeping Beauty Castle’, said to be based upon sixteenth-century Château d’Ussé in the Loire Valley in France, is depicted in the top right corner of the stamp. The next Disneyland stamp appeared in 1984 when Anguilla issued a set of entitled ‘Christmas Around the World’. The 10¢ value features Donald Duck in a Santa Claus outfit in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle.
