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Cestyll Cymru : Castles of Wales - Smilers Sheet - 1 March 2010

The fourth and maybethe last in the series of Smilers Sheets showing Castles will be issued on St David's Day in 2010.  The 1st class Wales flag definitive is from the Celebrating Wales miniature sheet, and the sheet has 2 panes of 10 castles, one with captions in English and one in Welsh.  

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Castles of Wales Smilers sheet of stamps.
Castles shown are:

Columns 1 & 3:
Caernarfon/Caernarvon, Carreg Cennen, Biwmares/Beaumaris, Cricieth, Harlech
Column 2 & 4
Cas-Gwent/Chepstow, Dinefwr, Dolbadarn, Dlowyddelan, Conwy.
Link to Wikipedia list of Castles in Wales.

Technical details:

The A4 (297 x 210mm) self-adhesive Smilers Sheet will be printed in litho by Cartor Security Printing - design details and credits awaited.
All images are Copyright 2010 by Royal Mail.


This is not regarded by Royal Mail as a new issue, so there are no official First Day postmarks available. 


Special Postmarks
These postmarks are relevant to this sheet: these may not be to scale  (W11659 cannot be obtained after 1 March.)

Edinburgh permanent postmark. Non-pictorial Caernarfon postmark . Postmark showing Caernarvon Castle - Castel Caernarfon.
W 5097 Cardiff Castle Clock Tower
Permanent postmark
W4191
Non-pictorial Caernarfon postmark
Ref W11659 - Caernarfon


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This page created 19 February 2010


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January
7 Classic Album Covers
7 Olympic Games retail book 1
26 Business & Customised Smilers MS
February
2 Girl Guide Centenary
25 350th ann of the Royal Society
25 Olympic Games retail book 2
March
1 Castles of Wales
11 Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
23 House of Stewart
30 Machin & Country Definitives
30 Festival of Stamps retail advertising book
April
13 Endangered Mammals
May
6 Accession of George V*
8 The King's Stamps* &
London 2010 Souvenirs *
13
Britain Alone (1940)*
* London 2010 Festival of Stamps issues
18 Halley's Comet Commemorative Sheet
June
15 House of Stuart
15 Endangered Mammals Retail Booklet
July
8 British Grand Prix Commemorative Sheet
27
Olympics & Paralympics II
& Olympic Games retail book 3

August
10 London Eye Commemorative Sheet
19 Great British Railways I
19 Retail booklets: 12x2nd, 6x1st
September
15 Battle of Britain - Spitfire Generic Sheet & Retail booklet
16 Medical Breakthroughs
17 Faststamps: Bird pictorials
October
12 Children's Books
12 Olympic Games retail book 4
26 Special Delivery Machins
28 Remembrance: the National Arboretum
November
2 Christmas - Wallace & Gromit

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