Some of the UK’s favourite garden birds will appear on Royal Mail’s new available from 17 September in 30 Post Offices across the UK and from the Philatelic Bureau at Tallents House. (Note that Royal Mail and Post Office Ltd adopted the name Post & Go pictorial stamps, distinguishing them from the 'day-of-use' Post & Go labels, after the trade and collectors had adopted the Faststamps name.)
Birds have long been one of the most popular thematic subjects and for this set Royal Mail referred to the results of the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch, selecting six of the most commonly seen species from the top 20.
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House
Sparrow - Passer
domesticus Goldfinch - Carduelis
carduelis Blue Tit - Cyanistes
caeruleus Starling - Sturnus
vulgaris Wood Pigeon - Columba
palumbus Robin
- Erithacus rubecula |
Products
issued
The labels will be used in Post
& Go machines at Autumn Stampex and initially at 30 Post
Offices around the country. (See
the list here.)
A mint set will also be
available from Royal Mail's Tallents House Bureau mounted on an
attractive card with details about each of the birds featured together
with an illustration of their eggs. All values are 1st Class with a
philatelic Post & Go code. Design is by The Chase with
illustration by Peter Horridge.
Although Post & Go
machines are a Post Office Ltd product, Royal Mail has chosen to
produce a First Day Cover and official First Day Postmarks for these
(See below).
Special
Postmarks
Postmarks available for the day of issue will be shown here, others may
be
added later. These are
not to scale. These
postmarks cannot
be obtained after the date of issue.
Ref FD1039 Philatelic Bureau Official Postmark illustrated with a map of the British Isles |
Ref FD1040 Bristol official postmark illustrated with a bird's egg |
Ref FD1040NP Bristol official non-pictorial postmark. |
Ref L11854 Sandy,
Bedfordshire (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) |
Ref N11861 Holmfirth, Nr Huddersfield, West Yorkshire |
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Ref M11859 Birdbrook Road, Birmingham |
Ref L11855 Thetford, Norfolk (British Trust for Ornithology) | Ref N11862 Garden Village, Sheffield. |
Ref N11860 British Garden Birds, Kielder Water, Northumberland |
Ref L11871 Autumn Stampex, Post & Go Birds of Britain First Day of Issue |
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