Issue Date | 18.07.2006 |
ID | Michel: 2420-2429 Scott: 2393a Stanley Gibbons: 2640-2649 Yvert: UPU: GB063.06 Category: Dw |
Author | Peter Willberg |
Stamps in set | 10 |
Value | 1st Class - Portrait of Winston Churchill
by Walter Richard Sickert,
Estate of Walter R Sickert 2006 all Rights Reserved, DACS/National
Portrait Gallery, London 1st Class - Sir Joshua Reynolds by Sir Joshua Reynolds, National Portrait Gallery, London 1st Class - Thomas Stearns Eliot by Patrick Heron, - Estate of Patrick Heron 2006 All Rights Reserved, DACS/National Portrait Gallery, London 1st Class - Emmeline Pankhurst by Georgina Brakenbury, National Portrait Gallery, London 1st Class - Virginia Woolf by George Charles Beresford, National Portrait Gallery, London 1st Class - Walter Scott by Sir Francis Chantry, National Portrait Gallery, London 1st Class - Mary Seacole by Albert Charles Challen, courtesy of Helen Rappaport/National Portrait Gallery, London 1st Class - William Shakespeare attributed to John Taylor, National Portrait Gallery, London 1st Class - Dame Cicely Saunders by Catherine Goodman, National Portrait Gallery, London 1st Class - Charles Darwin by John Collier, National Portrait Gallery, London |
Size (width x height) | 27x37mm |
Layout | Sheets of 30 and sheets of 60 stamps |
Products | FDC x1 PP x1 |
Paper | Gum: VPA, Phosphor: Bars as appropriate |
Perforation | 14x14 |
Print Technique | Gravure |
Printed by | De La Rue Security Print |
Quantity | |
Issuing Authority | Royal Mail of Great Britain |
Royal Mail will produce special postmarks for the
issue date. Tallents House, Edinburgh Postmark A pictorial postmark from Royal Mail Tallents House, 21 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 9PB will be used for the issue. The reference number for the Tallents House, Edinburgh pictorial postmark is as follows: First day of issue: Tallents House, Edinburgh Ref No FD 06 25 |
As an alternative to the Tallents House, Edinburgh
postmark, pictorial and non-pictorial (plain design) LONDON, WC2
postmarks will also be available for this issue. National Portrait Gallery is the full title of the 18 July 2006 issue and LONDON, WC2 chosen as the postmark because it is the location of the gallery. |
All first-day-of-issue postmarking offices will be
supplied with the alternative pictorial first-day-of-issue postmark.
This will mean that all first day covers posted at the Post Office-
counter will be cancelled with the same pictorial postmark regardless
of where they are posted. LONDON WC2 Pictorial Ref No FD 06 26 LONDON WC2 Non - Pictorial Ref No FD 10 26NP |
Ref FD625 Official Philatelic Bureau FDI postmark |
Ref FD626 Official London WC2 FDI postmark |
Ref FD625N Official London WC2 FDI non-pictorial postmark |
Ref L10136 The Great Britons, British St, London EC3 |
Ref L10154 International Churchill Society, Churchill, Oxford |
Ref L10129 From Paint to Pixel, Bletchley Park Post Office Milton Keynes |
Ref L10116 National Portrait Gallery Celebrates 150 Years, London WC2 |
Ref L10117 The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London SW1 |
Ref L10120 150th Anniversary NPG, Southwark, London SE1, showing Shakespeare's Globe Theatre |
Ref L10121 150th Anniversary NPG, Walmer, Deal, showing Walmer Castle |
Ref L10122 150th Anniversary NPG, Trafalgar Square, London WC2, showing the Gallery |
Ref W10129 150th Anniversary NPG, Plympton, Plymouth showing Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Ref M10126 Rowland's Road, Birmingham |
Ref L10123 Great Britons on Canvas, St Martin's Place, London |
Ref L10124 National Portrait Galery, St Martin's Place, London WC2 |
Ref L10125 National Portrait Galery, 1856-2006, London WC2 |
Ref L10128 Portraits on Pub Signs, London WC2 |
Official and some
personalized FDC
The First Day Cover Envelope was designed by
Andrew Ross and printed by Smurfit Print UK. The filler card was also
designed by Andrew Ross with photography by Nick Turpin and written by
John Cooper. It is printed by Fulmar Colour Printing Company Ltd. |
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Presentation Pack The fully illustrated Presentation Pack comprises
a full set of the ten National Portrait Gallery stamps. The pack was
designed by Andrew Ross with typically enigmatic photography by Nick
Turpin and written by John Cooper. The Pack is printed by Walsall
Security Printers. |
Numismatic Cover Limited in number these unique Medal Covers are
designed with the collector in mind. This pack features a specially
commissioned and distinctively designed medal approved by the National
Portrait Gallery, to mark its 150th anniversary. The medal itself
features a portrait of Shakespeare on one side and an edited version of
the Carlyle quotation on the other. |
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