CELEBRATED SETS
The story of this set begins with a comet. Jersey Post commemorated the 1986 appearance of Halley’s Comet with a set of three stamps by Jennifer Tombs. The 10p value featured its appearance in 1066, which was recorded in the Bayeux Tapestry and the design was a clever adaptation of the original embroidery.
The stamp was well received, so the same style was adopted for the 900th anniversary of the death of William I the following year.
This event passed unnoticed in Britain – but the impact of the early Medieval period is still felt in Jersey. Many of the island’s leading families ‘came over with the Conqueror’ or shortly afterwards; their coats of arms are shown on the island’s definitives from 1981-89. The Norman legal system
