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?
Parcels Post (2)
-
The Post Office had a monopoly on the transport of Letters and it was an
offence for anyone "sending or delivering letters other than by the post",
excep...
No comments:
Post a Comment
Thank you for reading the blog and commenting: please use an identity (name or pseudonym) rather than being Anonymous; it helps us to know which 'anonymous' comments are from the same person to avoid confusion. Comments are moderated to avoid spam, but will be published as soon as possible.