Extreme Endeavours - 29 April 2003 - 6 stamps and a booklet
With this stamp issue Royal Mail commemorates six incredible achievements that spanned the last century. The stamps feature six major team and individual accomplishments, tackled on diverse terrain - polar, mountain, water, air and desert - and often against the fiercest of elements.
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2nd Amy Johnson 1st Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay |
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'E' Dame Freya Stark 42p Ernest Shackleton |
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47p Sir Francis Chichester 68p Robert Falcon Scott See Links below for all these |
These stamps are designed by Howard Brown.
Technical details: the stamps are printed in gravure by De La Rue
Security Print, perforated 15 x 14½.
Self-adhesive booklet
On the same day a booklet containing 4 x 1st class gold definitives and 2 x Everest 1st class stamps will be issued. The booklet is printed by De La Rue in gravure. Because of the shape of the Everest stamp the arrangement of the stamps in the book has been changed. The two Everest stamps are on the right page, with the definitive stamps on the left page. Cylinder numbers are D1 for each colour.
Apart from the booklet, the images are taken from Royal Mail's Postmark Bulletin and Philatelic Bulletin, and are Copyright 2003 by Royal Mail.
Norvic Exclusive First Day Covers
We have produced an exclusive FDC for this issue which was used
for both the set and the booklet.
With all 6 stamps and an appropriate postmark, £7.50 each.
With the complete booklet and an appropriate postmark, £7.00
each.
All prices exclude postage & packing. For enquiries and prices in foreign currencies - please email us.
A number of illustrated postmarks were available for the date of
issue as shown below.
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| Ref FD 309 Official Bureau FDI Postmark |
Ref FD 310 Official FDI Postmark - Plymouth |
Ref N8454 Amy Johnson, Hull |
Ref L8444 Sir Edmund Hillary, London SW1 |
Ref L8446 Shackleton House, London NW10 |
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| Ref N8399 The Amy Johnson Memorabilia Room, Swereby Hall, Bridlington |
Ref L8381 The Conquest of Mount Everest London SW1 |
Ref L8382 The Conquest of Mount Everest London SW1 |
Ref L8383 Varied Acts of Extreme Endeavour, Endeavour Way, London SW19 sherpa Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986), Harry Houdini (1874-1926), Eliot Ness (1903-1957) |
Ref L8445 Dame Freya Stark, Russell Square, London WC1 |
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| Ref W8458A Robert Falcon Scott, Devonport, Plymouth |
Ref W8459A Sir Francis Chichester, Barnstaple, Devon |
Ref L8449 Mount Everest 50th Anniversary, Everest Place, London E14 |
Ref M8452 Amy Johnson's Black Magic, Egington, Derby |
Ref L8466 50th Anniversary of Scent of Everest Self Adhesives |
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| Ref L8464 The Ascent of Everest, London SW1 |
Ref L8468 The Ascent of Everest, London SW1 |
Ref L8465 50th Anniversary of the Conquest of Mt Everest, Endeavour Way, London SW19 |
Ref L8467 Dulwich College, London SE21 |
Ref M8471 Extreme Endeavours, Birmingham |
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| Ref N8472 Extreme Endeavours, Polemarch St, Seaham, Co. Durham |
Ref E8477 The Three Compasses, Charminster, Dorchester Public House/Inn |
Ref W8479 Extreme Endeavours, Mountain Ash |
Ref E8495 Price's Patent Candles Ltd, Bedford, Suppliers to Captain Scott. |
Ref M8489 50th Anniversary Year, Conquest of Everest, High Peak, Derby |
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| Ref S8494 Extreme endeavours, RRS Discovery, Dundee |
Ref N8490 Endeavour High School, Hull, Yorkshire |
Ref N8491 70th Anniv. Houston Mount Everest Flight, April 1933, Summit, Littleborough |
Ref L8486 Extreme Endeavour Self-adhesive Vooklet, 50th Anniversary First Ascent of Moutn Everest, Edmunds Walk, London N2 |
Ref L8487 Greenwich, London SE1 |
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<<<<<< Ref F8435 Capture of Coomassie (Ashanti Expedition) 107th anniversary BFPS 2708 |
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<<<<<< Ref N8508 Ernest Shackleton, Liverpool |
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This page updated 7 June 2008
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