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Welcome
to Norvic Philatelics
 ..
the
web's number 1 resource for up-to-date news about new stamps of
Great Britain, as well as all the new postmarks, many of them pictorial
and of interest to thematic or topical collectors.
A
big
surprise
for the start of 2010 was that the Design Classics II set depicts Music
Album Classic Covers!
This year again we have some 10x 1st class
sets
being issued in separate strips of 5, allowing the easy purchase of
single designs. But that is not for every issue, the
Battersea Dogs & Cats and
Mammals
being blocks
of 10. The Kings &
Queens
series have two sets in 2010; both
sets - Stewarts & Stuarts
- will
have
7 stamps.
This year has also seen an unprecedented amount of rescheduling of
issues, with the London Stage Musicals being postponed to
2011. We have also had a number of stamps - mainly
definitives - that Royal Mail have preferred not to tell collectors or
dealers about, namely those with the new MA10 year code in the security
overprint. (See panel to right, and the blog.)
E-MAILing
us: Most pages have clickable
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using one of these links, please use the SUBJECT line in your mail to
indicate which stamp issue you are writing about.
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or from our online shop, and the message will get through.
COPYRIGHT
These pages and all Norvic Philatelics FDCs are our copyright. These
may not be used without our permission. All pictures of new stamps,
postmarks,
presentation packs, prestige books and Royal Mail first day covers are
copyrighted by Royal Mail
and are reproduced here with their kind permission.
Webmasters,
publishers, students and schools may copy Royal Mail images from our
site, but the use of these images must be cleared with Royal Mail
Intellectual Property office by
clicking on this link.
We may be also able to provide higher-resolution images; if not Royal
Mail may provide them.
Please do not 'hotlink'
to our images; if you want to use them, copy them (right click) and
host them on your own space. Thank you!
If you need anything
for your collection which isn't shown here - please ask, we may have
it. Our new online store has stamps, fdcs, postal stationery, world
postal history, and picture postcards: click here
to see all our limited edition
Great Britain first day covers from 2003 to 2009.
Payment.
We prefer cheques from UK customers or you can pay by internet bank
transfer or over the counter to our bank account.
These are other methods that we know of: Canada
pay by Canadian Postal Money Order in pounds sterling; Eurozone
countries: payment by bank
transfer is possible.
International Money Orders and cheques/checks are also accepted; cash
in US$/GBP/€uro at the sender's risk. Credit card payments are
accepted via PayPal only: if you don't have a PayPal account we can
send you an e-invoice. Postage and packing is extra.
Our other site is
devoted to the stamps and postal history of the countries of the Former
Soviet Union in the 1990s. This
is a fascinating area of modern postal history and we hope to find time
away from GB new issues to develop this site to show material from
Ukraine, Russia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Lithuania
etc, as well as Belarus which is already shown. We've moved
this from Geocities, and very slightly updated it, and you can now see
it here.
 WANTED!
1994 Postage Due/To Pay stamps
For a personal
collection we are interested in buying examples of the 1994 issue 'To
Pay' stamps properly used
on cover or parcel piece.
The values issued are 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 25p, £1,
£1.20 & £5, all in the same design.
Please
email.
External
links
The information on external sites is the responsibility of the
respective site owners. We review these links periodically to ensure
that they are still valid and apologise for any 'broken' links that
there may be. If you find any links which are broken or which are no
longer relevant, please email Broken
link and we will investigate and
make corrections where we can. Many thanks.
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STAMP FAIRS
Regular
Norwich Stamp Fair Sundays 17
January, 21 March, 16 May, 18 July, 19 September, & 21 November
2010 Click
here for details
The next Norfolk
& Norwich
Philatelic Society STAMP
& POSTCARD FAIRS will be Saturdays 2
April and 6
August 2011 Details
will be here.
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News 24 August
BREAKING NEWS
>>> New Horizon labels trialled this week - see our blog.
This week's update includes day of issue postmarks for the three
Stampex issues - Battle
of Britain, Medical
Breakthroughs, and Bird
Pictorial Faststamps. We expect
that some more postmarks for these will be announced around 4 September.
For the
first news about
British stamps - visit
Norvic
Philatelics' blog
News
23/28 July
This week's update
includes full details of the Bird
Pictorial Faststamps which will
have a partial nationwide release on 17 September, and news of Special
Delivery NVI definitives on 26
October. First Day postmarks have also been announced for the
Great
British Railways - there may be
more later - and several for railways, football and Florence
Nightingale on the miscellaneous
postmarks
page.
Olympic
Booklet 4 has been added to the Retail
booklets page.
Pictures
from the London
Festival of Stamps
on our blog.
Also
there, pictures of the 1st
& 2nd class Large Letter stamps
with
the MA10 year code, as
well as the Gold
Machin Horizon labels from Wales, the London 2010 show and the
rest of the UK. Pictures of the coil and counter sheet
definitives with the MA10 year code have been added.
See
& buy the Classic Album Covers
stamps here.
April
News
The 20gr booklet
stamps will not be sold as
singles by Royal Mail's Philatelic
Service,
unlike the 40gr and Postcard stamps.
Errors
Update
King
George V prestige stamp book.
The only recent error
reported to us on PSBs is of one turning up without the self-adhesive
Machin pane.
Charles
Darwin PSB stamp book error.
Two days after the date of issue and we have the first report
of a duplicated pane error in the Charles Darwin PSB - see this here.
RAF
& Regionals prestige stamp book errors!
During last summer a number Machin Anniversary PSBs were found with
duplicated panes. Now we can report the Regionals Anniversary PSB
with a duplicated pane 1 - see
this and
any others on this book here.
See
also the pictures
of Machin
PSB errors here.
We
have also been shown
the 2nd class Business Sheet (PIP)
totally imperforate with matrix complete!
(We do not have any of these for sale)
Army
Uniforms The
joint
Royal
Mail/BFPO Army Uniforms FDC was paraded at Autumn Stampex 2008 in
London - see the pictures
here.
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