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Tuesday, 31 January 2017

65th Anniversary of the Accession - update

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Details and illustrations of the £5 commemorative/definitive have now been added to the earlier blogpost , and to our webshop for deliver...
Monday, 30 January 2017

Unusual Machin Trials Surface 20 years After Production

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Complete sheets of three trials of the Machin head, produced in 1997, have just come to light in this, the 50 th anniversary of the in...
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Wednesday, 25 January 2017

2017 Music Giants Pays Tribute to David Bowie

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Royal Mail have announced that this year's Music Giants stamp issue will be a tribute to David Bowie who died last year aged 69.  [Edit:...
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Slogans for Saint Dwynwen’s Day and Burns Night - but not in England

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Two slogan postmarks will be re-used at Mail Centres throughout the UK, but only on certain mail.   On Wednesday 25 January, a postmark wi...
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Wednesday, 18 January 2017

Unannounced Special Handstamps for Ancient Britain stamps.

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Readers who happen to live close to one of the sites where the Ancient Britain artifacts were found may have read in their local newspapers ...
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Tuesday, 17 January 2017

65th Anniversary of the Queen's Accession to the throne - a mixed blessing from Royal Mail.

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On 6 February 1952 King George VI died peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham House.    The official announcement said the King retired in...
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Saturday, 14 January 2017

Christmas Stamps will include children's designs again.

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The Children's Christmas Stamp Design Competition is back - it doesn't seem four years since the last one, but this year's Chr...
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Friday, 13 January 2017

Windsor Castle at Sixes and Sevens.

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The first batch of stamps of the Windsor Castle issue have arrived, and inevitably there are some surprises. As expected the mixed content...
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Thursday, 12 January 2017

Special Postmark for Year of the Rooster at end of January

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Ever since the Lunar Year of the Rooster Generic Sheet was announced, and illustrated here , people have been asking where the special postm...
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Changes coming to IT equipment at Post Office counters, starting with Outreach

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My thanks to 'Anonymous' who commented on another post, but acknowledged that it may not be the right place!  Correct: this is wo...
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