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As part of the promotion of Smilers stamps and to increase the use of pictorial stamps, Royal Mail will issue a booklet containing the 6 most popular greetings stamps previously issued in two separate booklets in 2005 and 2006.
The booklets will carry an advert for the smiler service and will be distributed through all Post Offices and the retail network.
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. But the stamps are very different. The basic and most obvious difference is that the earlier stamps had conventional perforations all round, but the latest booklet has stamps with an elliptical elongated perforation on the long side, similar to the Machin definitives.
In some ways it is unfortunate that the perforations are different, because there is still scope in these stamps for philatelic study, as can be seen in the enlarged images on this page. Note also that the edge-strip is inverted compared to the previous booklets.
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Technical details:
The booklets are printed by Walsall Security Print in gravure, and the
stamps are, as usual, self-adhesive.
All images except FDCs are Royal Mail Copyright 2006/7.
We produced a small number of exclusive covers for this booklet,
with the advertisement and colour strip, priced at £6.75
Postmarked with N10875 or W10881
Special Postmarks
... for the booklet are shown here. Postmarks produced for the Kings
and Queens: Houses of Lancaster
and York stamp issue can also be used on covers for the booklet. -
these may not be to scale - we do not expect any more to be
announced. These postmarks cannot be obtained after the date of issue.
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| Ref N10875 A Special Moment, Britannia, Bacup, Lancashire |
Ref W10881 A Special Moment, British, Talywain, Pontypool |
Ref L10866 Spring Stampex, London N1 |
Ref L9579 Happy Birthday, Mount Pleasant EC1 |
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This page updated 16 March 2008