Royal Mail's latest novelty stamps are aimed at children, but will appeal to children of all ages! Labelled "Fun Fruit & Veg, the first DIY stamps", the set of 10 stamps depicting individual fruit and vegetables will be issued in a se-tenant block with an attached sheet of 76 stickers, which can be added to the stamps to make faces, etc, as shown below. The stamps are self-adhesive, die-cut free-form/rectangular - that is basically rectangular but with the top and/or bottom of the subject extending beyong the rectangular 'boundary' - see picture.
The stamps were designed by Johnson Banks, using photographs by Kevin
Summers.
Technical details: The stamps are 39 x 28.5mm, printed on a
self-adhesive laminate in sheets of 10. They are printed in 4-colour
gravure by Walsall Security Print with kiss die-cut perforations 15 x 14.
The images are from Royal Mail's Stamp Preview, Postmark
Bulletin, and Philatelic Bulletin, and are Copyright 2003 by
Royal Mail.
Norvic Exclusive FDCs are sold in pairs (five stamps on each) and will
be supplied eitherwith our own sheet of stickers so that buyers
will be able to customise their own covers, or with our own
stickers already attached. Every cover is unique!
This set is limited to 25 pairs of covers priced at
£10.95
Covers supplied by Royal Mail in their standing order service will have undecorated
stamps.
All PO FDCs supplied by us - except those with postmark E8407 - will have
stamps decorated with the labels. With 76 stickers to choose from, the
faces on each cover will vary, and so each will be unique!
Special Day of Issue postmarks/cancels.
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| Ref FD307 Philatelic Bureau FDI postmark |
Ref FD308 Bureau Pear Tree, Derby FDI postmark |
Ref M8393 Fun Fruit & Veg, Birmingham |
Ref L8376 Covent Garden, London WC2 |
Ref M8394 Appletree, Daventry |
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| Ref E8407 Appledore, Ashford |
Ref L8374 Interactive Children's Stamps, Child's Place, London SW5 |
Ref L8375 Great Ormond Street Hospital, London WC1 |
Ref N8422 Fruit & Veg, Appleby Scunthorpe |
Ref N8421 Fruit & Veg, Chipping, Preston |
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| Ref N8420 Fruit & Veg, Garden Village, Hull |
Ref N8419 Fruit & Veg, Brusselton, Shildon |
Ref N8418 Fruit & Veg, Pepper Arden, Northallerton |
Ref E8424 Fruit & Veg, Ripe, Lewes |
Ref E8425 Fruit & Veg, Bittering, Dereham |
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| Ref E8426 Fruit & Veg, Grove, Canterbury |
Ref E8429 Fruit & Veg, Strawberry Valley, Dartmouth |
Ref M8414 Fruit & Veg, Pear Tree, Derby |
Ref W8430 First UK DIY Postage Stamps, Fun Fruit & Veg, Sticker, St Austell |
Ref S8455 Fun Fruit & Veg, Greens, Turriff |
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| Ref M8458 Sainsburys Northampton Special packs of the stamps are sold by this supermarket chain |
Ref L8442 Covent Garden, London WC2 |
Ref W8460 Operation Iceberg Preparations - Task Force 57, Devonport Plymouth. HMSs Illustrious, Indefatigable, Indomitable, Victorious, Howe, King George V, Argonaut, Black Prince, Euryalus, Gambia, Swiftsure, plus 13 FAA Squadrons |
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This page updated 16 March 2003 [7.2.05]
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