Norvic Philatelics - GB New Stamps and Special Postmarks

Design Classics Retail Stamp Booklets 

Following the set of 10 Design Classics stamps issued in January, Royal Mail will issue three self-adhesive retail books containing key stamps from the Design Classics set and 4 1st class gold Machin definitives.  The Machin definitives have security features. 

As Royal Mail has changed the programme of issuing these booklets at least twice already this year, we are including information about the 2009 booklets on this page, rather than creating a new page for each booklet.

Schedule of issues:

Booklet 1: 10 March 2009 - Telephone Box and Routemaster Bus

Booklet 2: 21 April 2009 - Mini-car x 2

Booklet 3: was originally announced as containing one Spitfire and one Concorde stamp to be issued 17 September.  This was postponed to January 2010.  But now the third booklet will be issued 18 August, with two Concorde stamps (no Spitfire), and.....

Booklet 4: 17 September 2009 - Mary Quant/mini-skirt x2. 

As far as we know, no further booklets in the series will be issued in 2009.

Booklet 1 - 10 March 2009 (actual booklet scan)	No - it's not an optical illusion or poor scan; most of the booklets we received had the long edges cut in a curve!	Let me know when this page changes it's private! powered by ChangeDetection
	Ref L11287 Picadilly, London W1	Ref L11288 Charing Cross, London WC2
Booklet 2 - 21 April 2009 (actual booklet scan)
	Ref L11325 Fawkham, Longfield (Kent) (Location of Brands Hatch circuit).	Ref M11333 Retail Book, Longbridge, Birmingham
		<<<< M11335 The Mini, 50th anniversary, Austin Rise, Longbridge
Booklet 3 - 18 August  (Royal Mail publicity image - showing the booklet as number 3 - the actual booklet has no number.)	Ref L11420 British Design Classics Retail Book, Heathrow, Hounslow	Ref M11427 Concorde Stamp Book, Concorde Tower, Birmingham
	As this is issued on the same date as the Postboxes MS, the special postmarks for that issue will also be available for this booklet.	-
Booklet 4 - 17 September  (Royal Mail publicity image - showing the booklet as number 4 - the actual booklet has no number.)	Ref L11475 British Design Classics Retail Book, Chelsea, London SW3	Ref L11476 - British Design Classics Retail Book, Blackheath, London SE3.
	As this is issued on the same date as the Navy Uniforms set, the special postmarks for that issue will also be available for this booklet.	Ref M11487 - Mni-skirt Stamp Book Sixties Fashion, Knightsbridge Road, Solihull

Royal Mail do not regard these as a new issues, so there will are no official first day covers or First Day of Issue postmarks. 

However we will proudce a small number of FDCs using the original Design Classics FDC.

Technical details:
The booklets are printed by Walsall Security Print: stamps are self-adhesive, non-soakable.    (All images are Royal Mail Copyright 2008/9.)  
The printing is different, as you can see from the head - see below - and the value is closer to the left in the De La Rue sheet printing.

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This page updated 8 September 2009