These are 1987–88 stamps about 1788, which is a different kind of history. Australia Post built a twenty-one-stamp First Fleet story for the Bicentenary: square format, Australian Bicentennial Authority map logo, issued in chapters as the voyage had been — Portsmouth, 13 May 1787, then Tenerife, Rio, the Cape, then the arrival set on Australia Day 1988. Lay the se-tenant strips out and they make a mural. That is the collection on the table.
Eleven ships, more than 1,400 people, Portsmouth to Warrane. These are phone photographs of the stamps. 1988 was a fight as much as a party. The stamps are official memory in glue.
