{"id":221,"date":"2016-01-23T20:30:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=221"},"modified":"2016-02-08T12:28:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T17:28:17","slug":"definition-9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/definition\/definition-9\/","title":{"rendered":"..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Lundy Island, 1929-1930<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Postage stamps mounted on collector\u2019s exhibition page<\/span><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ralph Stuntzer Collection of Lundy Island Stamps<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These privately issued postage stamps were printed to support the delivery of mail to and from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lundy\">Lundy Island<\/a> after the United Kingdom\u2019s postal system ended service to the island in 1927. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Coles_Harman\">Martin Harman<\/a>, resident and self-proclaimed King of Lundy, established stamps and coins that featured images of puffins due to the presence of these birds on the island. The stamps were affixed to the back of an envelope or front of a postcard to distinguish them from the official stamps of the Royal Mail. Lundy Island still produces puffin stamps today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx010md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-520 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx010md.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx010md\" width=\"640\" height=\"942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx010md.jpg 640w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx010md-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx010md-100x147.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx010md-150x221.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx010md-200x294.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx010md-300x442.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx010md-450x662.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx010md-600x883.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lundy Island, 1929-1930 Postage stamps mounted on collector\u2019s exhibition page Ralph Stuntzer Collection of Lundy Island Stamps These privately issued postage stamps were printed to support the delivery of mail to and from Lundy Island after the United Kingdom\u2019s postal system ended service to the island in 1927. Martin Harman, resident and self-proclaimed King of <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/definition\/definition-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":48,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-221","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221\/revisions\/984"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}