Norvic Philatelics - GB New
Stamps
First Man on the Moon
– Commemorative Sheet: 21st July
2009
To
mark the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing Royal Mail will
issue a
commemorative sheet of 10 stamps with appropriate labels and
illustrated border, in an illustrated folder.
Royal Mail have said that these
commemorative sheets will be used "...
to mark anniversaries that never quite made it into the stamp
programme." They are A4 in size
(210 x 297mm) similar to the Smilers Sheets sold at Stampex, and those
commissioned by businesses. Whilst these were originally intended to be
used by businesses they are now mainly produced for sale to sports
fans, film fans, and collectors of general memorabilia. Being specially
commissioned, 'Business Smilers' always have an intitial selling price
well over face value, and often (but not always) command a considerable
premium on resale.
The Royal Mail Commemorative
Sheets consist of 10 x 1st class stamps, with commemorative labels and
a commemorative border. Because these sheets are sold at a
premium over face value they will not
be listed in most stamp catalogues, but we understand they will be
listed in the Smilers Catalogue under the 'Commemorative Sheet' heading.
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These
postmarks were used
on the issue date:
Ref
L11410, London SW1
M11412 Exploration Drive, Leicester
This postmark has been
announced for use in conjunction with the anniversary:
REF N11407 Jodrell
Bank, Manchester |
Technical details:
The
sheet is designed by the
Chase design agency was printed by Cartor Security Printing.
It is A4 size, 297 x 210mm. The
Union Flag stamps appear to be as previously issued and are litho and
self-adhesive. At this stage we do not know if they have elliptical
perfs.
This sheet is not
stocked by us, and we produced no FDCs for it.
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This page updated 5 December 2010
