Review of the November/December 1999 Yule Log

Feature Articles

• "Canterbury Cathedral" by Dr. Leon Putnam, CPC #326, relates the history of Canterbury Cathedral. Early stained glass windows that date from around 1200 are shown on Great Britain's 1971 Christmas stamps. The windows are in the north choir aisle along with others that picture scenes of the childhood and young manhood of Christ.

• "Christmas Philatelic Items Before Christmas Stamps"...Rev. Wilmer Bloy, CPC #1363, discusses how people celebrate Christmas on their correspondence even before Christmas stamps were issued. Several covers are illustrated.

• "Just a Sip" - Religion on Christmas Stamps"... Rev. Frank Pieper, CPC #1051, continues to share his enjoyment of collecting Religion on Christmas stamps with readers of the Yule Log. In this issue, Rev. Pieper describes and illustrates stamps showing who the shepherds saw when they reached Bethlehem including the animals that surrounded the manger.

• 'Round the World Christmas Covers...Richard Beecher, CPC #987, reminds us to address our Christmas greeting envelopes correctly. He illustrates and describes two covers that did not make it to the addressees for Christmas.

• "Charming Prints and Cinderellas"...Frank Correl (Reprinted from The American Philatelist, December 1997, with permission.)

• "Bilaterial Similarities: Yuletide Flora...by Richard Louis Thomas (Reprinted from The Canadian Connection, December 1, 1996, with permission.).

• Yule Log Index and Cross Reference...information how to obtain a copy of the Index from CPC Vice-President Ed Kalasa. The index is a listing of articles which have appeared in the Yule Log from 1969-1998. Index Ordering Information

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