Dickens Price Competition 1911

Charles Dickens well-known characters holding sandwich-boards, presented in The Strand Magazine, 1911. Where the readers could stick one of Dickens stamps on the vacant space and complete the page by identifing as many of characters shown. By sending back the page to the main office, where the Editor would decided the winners of the competition. The cash prizes were: first prize - £25, second - £10, third - £5 and finally ten prizes of £1. (We have provided you with the actual stamp, that would have been used in this competition of Dickens, centenary of his birth -- sorry there are no prizes!)

Centenary Compete Competitions Dickens Fill Identify Listing Postage Prizes Readers Sandwich Send Stamps Strand

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