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Thursday, 29 October 2009

Christmas Stamp Printing Dates & Cylinder numbers

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Printing dates seen on this year's Christmas stamps: 2nd class - 10 July 1st class - 6 July 56p - 2 July 90p - 2 July £1.35 - 4 July ...
Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Smilers makeover- 4 new designs for consumers.

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Royal Mail's Smilers (personalised stamps) service has been running since Stamp Show 2000 and over the years many stamps have been adde...
Friday, 16 October 2009

Design Classics 2 = Classic Album Covers - 7 January 2010

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After the success of 2009’s British Design Classics, 2010 opens with a look at the classic art of the album cover. For decades the album sle...
Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Business Sheets: DLR die-cuts - just how significant is type 2a?

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I mentioned the two different types of die-cut arcs reportedly used by De La Rue on 1st & 2nd class business sheets earlier. Somebody a...

United Kingdom Postcodes are 50 years old 2 - the postmarks used - Pass On Your Postcode

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Royal Mail's Postmark Bulletin announced that letter cancelling machinery would have a commemorative postmark for a few days. INK-JET ...

Recorded NVIs coming on 17 November (v2)

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Readers may wish to know that images of the Recorded Signed For stamps are shown on the original posting.

Copycat stamp issues - maybe ours wasn't such a bad idea after all!

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Remember these?   A gimmicky 2003 issue aimed at children which was sold not only at post offices but at Sainsbury's superma...
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Friday, 9 October 2009

Royal Navy shifts left - single centre, and wide bands in PSB

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A collector in Canada reports having received one of the Royal Navy Uniforms prestige stamp books with the phosphor on the Machin pane shift...

Glasgow goes back in time for Post and Go

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When Post & Go machines break down, as - it seems - they quite often do, the software sometimes defaults to an original date, just as it...
Thursday, 8 October 2009

New 12 x 1st Machin book has reset cover

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Thanks to Richard P for pictures of a new setting of the cover of the 1st class booklet of 12. At first it looks as if the printing has shi...