To mark the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing Royal Mail will issue a commemorative sheet of 10 stamps with appropriate labels and illustrated border, in an illustrated folder. This is another one of those 'well-over-face-value' sheets which will be sold for £13.50 against a stamp value of only £3.90.
The picture I have isn't good enough and it's incomplete, so I'll await a better one. You can see what we have so far here
But why the 40th anniversary?
Ilminster Squared Circle cancels
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Overlapping with the duplex cancels, Ilminster used a squared circle cancel
from 1881.
The cancel was recut.
And recut again to include the time rather ...
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