6 May 1st class single stamp (41p) showing the Machin head of Queen Elizabeth II and the Mackennal profile head of King George V. Now that we have these stamps I can tell you that they - and the one in the MS - are red, not orange/flame - click on the image to see the full double-pane sheet, with gutter in the actual colour. (Edit: the Royal Mail order code for the single stamp is DS414 but at the time of writing it isn't possible to purchase it online with the rest of the stamps in this series.)
6 May Uncut Press Sheet containing 20 of the above Miniature sheets, in 5 rows, and two se-tenant tete-beche columns. (£31)
6 May George V British Rarities ingot cover and Commonwealth Rarities ingot cover, priced at £32.95 each.
8 May Uncut Press Sheet of 9 of the above miniature sheets (3x3). (£27.90)
8 May Presentation pack containing both 6 May and 8 May miniature sheets. (£4.75)
8 May Stamp card set of 8,, ie one for each of the 6 stamps and one each for the miniature sheets. (£3.20)
8 May Prestige Stamp Book first day cover set. Royal Mail will produce a set of 4 FDCs for all the panes in the book. This may be a first. In 2000 Royal Mail produced three FDCs for the Profile on Print PSB panes containing oversized stamps (these were new stamps not previously available elsewhere). I have a recollection, however, that Royal Mail also produced FDCs for either the very first PSB - the 1969 Stamps for Cooks book - or the £1 Wedgwood PSB issued in 1972.
EDIT: This sheet will not be sent to Royal Mail's regular customers as part of their Standing Order, but must be bought at the show or ordered separately from Tallents House - stock code S1003.
8 May Exhibition Overprint Sheet: 6 May sheet overprinted (or maybe the legend is incorporated into the printing?) BUSINESS DESIGN CENTRE, LONDON 8 - 15 MAY 2010 in the top right corner.
EDIT: This sheet will not be sent to Royal Mail's regular customers as part of their Standing Order, but must be bought at the show or ordered separately from Tallents House.
Update: Two sources, a collector in the UK and a dealer in Australia, told us that they had been told by Royal Mail that this sheet would be available after the show, from the Bureau at Tallents House - we are now advised that this is not so. Royal Mail also told dealers, before the show, that this sheet will be in the Year Book, due in November. It remains to be seen whether this information turns out to be true.
8 May Postal Union Congress Facsimile Pack Non-postally valid facsimile sheet of the 1929 PUC £1, printed from copies of original plate, in blocks of four in a pack. (£4.95)
8 May 10th Anniversary of Smilers® Generic Sheet, containing an assortment of stamps available in the Smilers service, including the new 1st class Birthday cake (x4) and Present (x4) stamps, 20gr Europe (x2) and 20gr Worldwide (x2) stamps, and the 1st class Union Flag (x3), Balloons, Firework, Thank You, Love, and Robin. This will also be available for personalisation at the London 2010 exhibition, and these sheets will be overprinted with the Exhibition Logo (£10.00).
8 May George V Postcard Pack. A pack of 6 picture postcards which will enable collectors to make their own maximum cards with the stamps and special postmarks available. (No details or image so far provided.)
8 May Philatelic Bulletin Supplement - The George V Royal Cypher Issue. A5 illustrated booklet "which provides a highly detailed look at many of the stamps issued during George V’s reign starting with the Downey head." (£2.95)
13 May Britain Alone. Set of 8 stamps and Miniature Sheet of 4 stamps, the latter marking The Dunkirk Evacuation. (£5.30 and £2.86). Also a set of 13 Stamp Cards (one for each stamp and one for the MS - 35.20), a presentation pack (£8.70), and a Prestige Stamp Book (£9.76) containing the 8 stamps from the set and 4 from the miniature sheet on 3 panes, plus a pane of Machin definitives 4 x 5p, 2 x 10p, 2 x 60p.
There will also be a Dunkirk Medal Cover at £14.95.
13 May Also on this day, but totally unrelated, Royal Mail will issue coils of 500 & 1000 1st class and 2nd class definitives. These will be conventionally gummed with the ROYAL MAIL* security overlay, but no security slits. (*As reported in the Philatelic Bulletin - however, it is quite likely that one of the letters will be changed, maybe to MRIL, maybe not!)
Keen observers will note that the 1st & 2nd class Large Letter booklets with source code MA10 should also be added to this list, having been found in Royal Mail's stock on 8 May.
To hold all these products there will also be
- a London 2010 Album binder at £12.95
- slipcase for the above at £9.00
- inserts for George V - £4.99
- inserts for The King's Stamps - £4.99
- inserts for Exhibition items - £4.99
- inserts for Britain Alone - £4.99
Cheers for all this info. You do a better job of marketing the stuff than RM themselves do!
ReplyDeletedizzy from downunder :-) ...dizzy about the selection, dizzy at the cost it will , dizzy just thinking about it all and your amazing patience Ian..
ReplyDeleteGreat piece...well done Michael cddstamps.
PS can I use this piece in the IPDA Newsletter for May..will give full credit etc etc
For completeness I have added to the 13 May entry the Security-featured 1st & 2nd class coils, which is also the subject of a separate blog entry.
ReplyDeleteWas the Jeffrey Matthews Exhibition Souvenir sheet available at local POs? I was incorrectly charged £5.05 for one of the other MS issued which suggests that it might have been available.
ReplyDeleteThe Machin souvenir sheet should have been available at POs (although I don't think it was disributed on standing order from the Bureau). A letter in this month's Stamp Magazine indicates that there was considerable confusion in POs and that your experience was not unusual.
ReplyDeleteDid you get your overpayment back? If not you should certainly do so, though it may be difficult for your postmaster to give it to you.
Hi there. This is the first time I've seen your interesting philatelic website. Would you say that British stamp uncut press sheets are worth collecting or just another product that RM issue to gather revenue? Thanks, Henry
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DeleteWell, some people like them. There is a limit to how many you can sensibly keep. Either they stay rolled in tubes, or you frame them. How many walls do you have? :-D I certainly don't have room to store them either way.
The smallest ones are quite attractive, and of course at least 1 of those issued for the 2010 Festival had alternate columns inverted which was a novelty.
If people want to spend the money, then RM would be foolish not to continue to produce them considering the production cost is so low. The cost of careful packing and posting is probably higher.
Hi Ian and thank you for your reply. Keeping them in tubes is not really enjoying them as you would with your stamp collection stored in an album which you can easily open at any time. Framing is expensive and then light exposure may spoil the stamp sheet no matter how dark the room maybe. I agree with your comments about the smaller sheets being more attractive (at least storagewise!) and the novelty of the 2010 Festival issue. Now RM have also published a limited edition of 2012 uncut sheets of the House of Windsor and Diamond Jubilee issues. Whether the are worth buying as an investment or to keep is anyone's guess I suppose. Thanks again, Henry
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