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Royal Mail complete the 'Glorious' series of Smilers sheets with this one for the United Kingdom, incorporating 5 stamps from each of the nations, and pictorial labels showing scenes in Wales, Northern Ireland, England, & Scotland. The stamps and labels are set against a background of the Union Flag. The labels will depict man-made landmarks around the country,
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The labels show the following locations, with the labels attached to the Welsh stamps captioned in English and Welsh:
| Wales a. Cynulliad Cymru/Welsh Assembly b. Castell Harlech/Harlech Castle c. (statue of miner at) Tonypandy d. Capel Sant Gofan/St Govan's Chapel e. Helvetia, Rhosili/Helvetia, Rhossili |
Northern Ireland Beaghmore Stone Circles Belfast Customs House Scrabo Tower Lough Erne White Island Figures Mussenden Temple |
England Tower of London Brighton Pier Turf Fen Mill Royal Liver Building Eden Project |
Scotland Scottish Exhibition Centre Declaration of Arbroath Dugald Stewart Monument Glenfinnan Viaduct Italian Chapel, Orkney |
Designed by Neon designe agency, London, the A4 (297 x 210mm)
self-adhesive Smilers Sheet is printed in litho by Cartor Security
Printing.
All images except Norvic FDCs are Copyright 2008 by Royal Mail.
This will not be regarded as a new issue by Royal Mail so there will
be no official first day cover.
We have produced a set of 4 FDCs price £18.50 to
accommodate all 20 stamps.
The postmarks used are W11141 Cardiff, S11136 Belfast, L11117 London,
and S11137 Edinburgh.
Special Postmarks
First day of issue postmarks are shown here - these may not be to
scale. Due to the late publication of these postmarks Royal Mail
will allow extra time for collectors to submit covers for postmarking.
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| Ref S4641 Belfast Permanent postmark |
Ref W5097 Cardiff permanent postmark. |
Ref S4653 Edinburgh permanent postmark. |
Ref M11130 Union Street, Birmingham |
Ref L11112 25 Years of the £1 coin and 50 years of Country Definitives London SW1 |
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| Ref L11102 London - Union flag |
Ref S11137 Edinburgh - thistle. |
Ref S11136 Belfast - Red Hand badge. |
Ref W11141 Cardiff - dragon. |
Ref S11138 Edinburgh - contains the names of all 6 terriroties issuing stamps in 1958. |
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| Ref N11133 Britannia, Bacup, Lancashire |
Ref L11118 London SW - Union flag |
Ref L11117 London - Lion |
Ref L11114 Country Definitives 1958-2008 Windsor. |
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| Ref L11115 Burnham Thorpe, King's Lynn |
Ref L11116 Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk |
Ref L11113 Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk |
Ref F11143 BFPO 3067 |
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| Ref L4643 - Brighton permanent handstamp England #2 |
Ref S4656 - Glasgow permanent handstamp. Scotland #1 | Ref L4665 - London EC3 (Tower of London) England #1. | Ref N4663 - Liverpool (Liver Building) England #4 | Ref L4670 - Norwich permanent handstamp. England #3 | |
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| Ref W5107 Cardiff SHC operational postmark |
Ref W6038 Cardiff double-circle operational postmark |
Ref S4187 Belfast SHC operational postmark |
Ref S4186 Glasgow SHC operational postmark |
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| Ref S6039 - Belfast operational cds postmark | Ref S6040 - Edinburgh operational cds postmark | Ref S6041 - Glasgow 2 operational cds postmark | |||
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This page updated 5 October 2008