Norvic Philatelics - GB New Stamps and Special Postmarks

Mixed Booklet: definitives and greetings - 15 January 2008

Following the reported success of the Love booklet issued in January 2007, and promoting the Smilers stamps service Royal Mail will issue another booklet aimed at senders of cards for St Valentines Day (14 February). This booklet contains 6 1st class stamps, of which 4 are standard definitives and 2 are the LOVE greetings stamp, with Smilers-type labels. The edge strip on the booklet is decorated with gold hearts.

Royal Mail do not regard this as a new issue, so there will not be an official first day cover or First Day of Issue postmarks. However although the Love stamps have normal perforations all round, they may be different to those previously issued in Smilers Sheets. Royal Mail have now said that the label-attached Love booklets will have elliptical perforations like the 2006 booklet. The image now shows the actual booklet - elliptical perforations, interrupted where joined to the label at top, foot and centre.
(See original issued on 4 October 2005 for the original booklet stamps.)

booklet of 6 self-adhesive 1st class stamps, 4 definitive, 2 LOVE greetings.
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Retail booklet containing 6 x 1st class stamps, 4 1st class definitives and 2 Love greetings stamp.

Technical details:
The self-adhesive booklets should be printed by Walsall Security Print in gravure.
All images except Norvic FDCs are Royal Mail Copyright 2007/8.

Norvic Exclusive First Day Cover

We have produced a small number of exclusive covers for this booklet, with the advertisement and colour strip with postmark L10826 priced at £6.75.
Norvic Philatelic first day cover for Valentines stamp booklet 2008.

We have also produced some covers with the Love stamp only - priced at £3.95.


All prices exclude postage & packing.

Special Postmarks
Postmarks available for the day of issue are shown below - these may not be to scale - These postmarks cannot be obtained after the date of issue.

postmark illustrated with a rose. postmark illustrated with a couple and a heart. postmark illustrated with a gondola/punt. postmark illustrated with a girl and puppy.
Ref L10826
Lover, Salisbury 		Ref S10830
Golders Green, Gretna 		Ref L10827
River Cherwell, Oxford 		Ref M10828
Love Lane, Birmingham

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This page updated 16 March 2008

2007
2008 stamp issues
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January
8 Ian Fleming's James Bond
15 Definitive LOVE booklet
15 New Smilers stamps 		February
5 Working Dogs
28 Kings and Queens I
28 Greetings retail booklet 		March
11Celebrating Northern Ireland MS and Glorious Northern Ireland Smiler Sheet
13 Mayday - Rescue at Sea 		April
1 Rate change Machin & Country stamps
1 Territorial Army commemorative sheet
15 Endangered Species - Insects 		May
13 Cathedrals
13 Retail booklet - summer 		June
10 Classic Films
July
17 Air Displays, powered flight
24 Olympics commemorative sheet 		August
5 Beijing Expo 2008 Smilers Sheet
22 Olympics handover Joint issue		 September
18 British Military Uniforms (II - Royal Air Force)
29 50th Anniv. regional stamps MS
29 Glorious UK Smilers sheet 		October
14Women of Distinction
28 Smilers for Kids 		November
4 Christmas (Pantomime)
6 Lest We Forget
tba 60th Birthday of HRH Prince Wales

2009 programme

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