Norvic Philatelics - GB New
Stamps and Special Postmarks
Centenary of Aerial Post
Miniature Sheet & Prestige Stamp Book - 9 September 2011
There
are many claims for the first aerial post flight, but the first
authorised United Kingdom Aerial Post took place on Saturday 9
September 1911, from Hendon to Windsor by Gustav Hamel.
Royal
Mail is issuing a miniature sheet and prestige
stamp book to commemorate the this anniversary
With the prestige bookpanes now
to hand we can show the new Machin definitive stamps with MPIL
& M11L codes. Note that the 5p has no security overlay and none
of the stamps has security slits, being on PVA gum.
Technical
details: The MS,
containing 41 x 30mm stamps is designed by Robert Maude and Sarah
Davies. The 146 x 74mm sheet is printed in litho by Cartor
Security Printing. Perf 14.5 x 14, all over phosphor.
The Prestige Stamp Book
is
also designed by Robert Maude and Sarah Davies, and written by
Peter Lister, President of the British Air Mail
Society.
Preliminary
information has a note against pane 4 "(intaglio)", but the printing
process is described as "Lithography, except pane 1 which is gravure",
and the printer is identified as Cartor Security Printing.
However, we know that Cartor do not have gravure
capability,
so pane 1 will probably be printed by Walsall, especially if
self-adhesive. So pane 4 will be intaglio, as was
the 2005
Castles miniature sheet, which
was
printed by Enschede. We await the final product with interest
to
see who printed which panes! The
latest
information we have is:
The
four
panes are. A
three-stamp aerial post pane,
featuring a £1.10p stamp flanked by two 1st Class stamps; a
second
three-stamp pane with a
£1 stamp flanked by two 68p stamps; *
a
four-stamp pane of 50p
Windsor Castle stamps, re-issued from the 2005 set of high-value
definitives stamps, and printed intaglio. The
fourth
pane
of mixed Machins
comprises of eight stamps printed by lithography: four 5p, two 1st
class (top left and bottom right), two 76p (bottom left and top right),
with the three-quarter portrait of George V by Downey in the
middle. The main background image is a detail from a 1911 poster
advertising the Coronation Aerial Post. Another source says
that
the Machin pane will have ordinary gum. We shall find out in
about a month when we get the actual books! Update:
1st class gold and 76p stamps have security overprint with MPIL
M11L
code.
* Although previously
issued the Windsor Castle stamp should have full catalogue status
because the earlier version was issued in a miniature sheet with 3
others.
Copyright 2011 by Royal Mail.
Products
available:
Miniature sheet
First Day Cover
Presentation Pack
Set of 5 Stamp Cards
Prestige Stamp Booklet
Special
Postmarks
Postmarks available for the day of issue are shown here, others may be
added. (May not be to scale,
cannot be obtained after 9.9.11)
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Ref FD1131
Official Philatelic Bureau FDI. |
Ref FD1132
Official Hendon FDI postmark showing 1911 postmark. |
Ref FD1132NP
Official Hendon non-pictorial FDI postmark |
Ref L12230 First Aerial
Post Centenary Stampex 2011, Windsor Berkshire |
Ref L12231
First Aerial Post Centenary, Hendon, Middlesex |
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| Ref L12228 Centenary of
First Aerial Post Royal Aeronautical Society, London W1 |
Ref
L12229 Centenary
of First Aerial Post Royal Air Force Museum Hendon GBFDC
Association
AGM |
Ref N12235 Centenary of
First Aerial Post PTS Aerodrome Road, Hendon, London |
Ref M12232 Windsor
View, Birmingham |
Ref L4680
Royal Mail Windsor permanent postmark.
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| Ref
L12243 Coronation Centenary, Exhibition Study Group, Crystal
Palace,
London |
Ref
L12238 1911 UK Aerial Post Centenary, Hendon, London NW4
Collect GB First Day
Covers The Booth Catalogue 30th Edition |
Ref
L12239 Windsor Berkshire |
Ref
L12240 Aerodrome Road, London NW9 (Hendon) |
Ref
L12241 London NW9 (Hendon) |
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space
intenrtionally blank |
space
intenrtionally blank |
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L12242 Windsor Berkshire. |
Ref
L12281 Air-Railway Post Centenary, Windsor, Berkshire |
Ref
L12282 - Dartford, Kent |
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