Row 1: Norman Parkinson, Vivien Leigh, Peter Cushing,
David Lloyd George, Elizabeth David.
Row 2: John Archer, Benjamin Britten, Mary Leakey, Bill Shankly, Richard
Dimbleby
The stamps were designed by Together Design and are printed by Cartor
Security Printing in lithography. The 35mm square stamps are perf
14.5 in sheets of 25/50 with a phosphor background screen.
The stamps will be issued in two sheets of 25/50 with five se-tenant
designs per sheet, enabling customers to buy a vertical strip of five of
any individual.
Acknowledgements:
Norman Parkinson portrait © Roger George
Clark/National Portrait Gallery, London, Young Velvets, Young Prices ©
Norman Parkinson Ltd/courtesy Norman Parkinson Archive;
Vivien Leigh portrait © Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images, Gone with the
Wind signage © 2002 Topham Picturepoint;
Peter Cushing portrait © Photos 12/Alamy, background imagery © Matt Stuart
2012;
David Lloyd George portrait © The Granger Collection/TopFoto, Westminster
scene © Mary Evans Picture Library;
Elizabeth David portrait © 2005 TopFoto, background imagery © Melanie
Acevedo;
John Archer portrait © Royal Mail 2012, Battersea Town Hall © Mary Evans
Picture Library/Francis Firth;
Benjamin Britten portrait © Camera Press/Yousuf Karsh, background imagery
© Britten-Pears Foundation, © Copyright 1945 by Boosey & Hawkes Music
Publishers Ltd. Reproduced by permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music
Publishers Ltd;
Mary Leakey portrait © LA Times, courtesy The Leakey Foundation,
background imagery © Robert IM Campbell/National Geographic Stock;
Bill Shankly portrait © Central Press/Getty Images, Tommy Smith background
image © Liverpool FC via Getty Images;
Richard Dimbleby portrait and background image © TopFoto.co.uk
Products issued, available from Royal Mail:
Set of 10 stamps (2 strips of 5) --
Strip of 5 from sheet 1 or sheet 2, or vertical strip of 5 of any single
stamp
First day cover --
Presentation pack -- Stamp
cards (set of 10)
Postmarks available for the day of issue are shown here. These postmarks cannot be obtained after the date of issue. The images shown here may not be to scale.
Ref FD1312TH "I have been impelled by Curiosity" Mary Leakey, Philatelic Bureau Official Postmark |
Ref FD1312PL "LIberty has restraints but no frontiers" David Lloud George Great News, Shrewsbury Official Postmark |
Ref FD11312NP |
Ref L12830 |
Ref L12831 |
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Ref M12826 |
Ref L12823 'After all tomorrow is another day' A
Tribute to Vivien Leigh, Brighton |
Ref N12827 |
Ref L12822 Fairfield 1928-30 Benjamin Britten Centenary, Holt,
Norfolk |
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