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Stamp
designs: 1st class - Churchill and Troops; Land Girls (56p) 60p Home Guard; Evacuees (62p) 67p Air Raid Wardens; Women in factories (90p) 97p Royal Broadcast by the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret; Fire Service. Apart from the 1st class stamp, face values will change from those shown in brackets as a result of increases in postage rates in April 2010. Designed by Why Not Associates, printed in lithography by Cartor Security Printing. Size 35mm square.
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The miniature sheet
recalls the Evacuation from Dunkirk, including a quotation from
Winston
Churchill, with 1st class, (56p, 81p & 90p) 60p, 88p, 97p
stamps showing the
evacuation by the flotilla of little ships. Apart from the 1st class stamp, face values will change from those shown in brackets as a result of increases in postage rates in April 2010. Designed by Why Not Associates, and printed in lithography by Cartor Security Printing. Size 115 x 89mm, stamps 35mm square. |
Prestige
Stamp
Book Contents will include two panes of Britain Alone stamps, one pane with the Dunkirk miniature sheet, and one pane of mixed Machin definitives. Details will be added here when they are published. The booklet is designed by Why Not Associates, with text by Nigel Fountain, and printed by Cartor Security Printing in lithography. Pane 1: Machin definitives 5p, 10p & 60p - background dhows children sheltering during air-raid. Pane 2: 1st class Churchill and Land Girls, 67p Women in Factories, 97p Royal Broadcast. Pane 3: 60p Evacuees and Home Guard, 67p Air Raid Warden, 97p Fire Service. Pane 4: 1st class, 60p, 88p & 97p Dunkirk Evacuation stamps, as in miniature sheet. As of 11th May our supplies of these have not arrived, so we cannot probide any details of the actual stamps or booklet. |
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Special
Postmarks
Postmarks available for the day of issue are shown below -
these may not be to scale.
NOTE: These postmarks
cannot be obtained after the date
of issue.
Postmark will be like this |
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Ref FD1025 Philatelic Bureau Official Postmark: "Keep Calm and Carry On" |
Ref FD1026 Dover Official Postmark: Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution will bring us Victory | Ref FD906NP Dover non-pictorial Postmark |
Ref L11751 - Britain Alone First Day Of Issue, London N1 | Ref L11758 - Westerham |
Ref L11749 70th Anniversary, Association of Dunkirk Little Ships, Dover Kent | Ref L11750 Dunkirk 70th Anniversary, Dover, Kent | Ref L11752 Warden Road, London NW5 |
Ref L11757 - London SE1 | Ref L11756 - London |
L11755 - London | L11754 - Dunkerque A bien merite de la Patrie, Dover. (Coat of Arms of Dunkerque) | L11753 - The Churchill Centre, Churchill, Oxford | M11765 - Churchill Road, Birmingham | N11766 - Surviving the Blitz, Stockport Air Raid Shelters. |
W11767 - Churchill, Winscombe | L11759 - London | L11734 - London 2010 Festival of Stamps logo, used on 13 May |
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This page updated 11 May 2010