Norvic Philatelics - GB New Stamps and Special Postmarks

Greetings retail stamp booklet - 28 February 2008

As part of the promotion of Smilers stamps and to increase the use of pictorial stamps, Royal Mail will issue a booklet containing the 6 most popular greetings stamps previously issued in two separate booklets in 2005 and 2006.

The booklets will carry an advert for the smiler service and will be distributed through all Post Offices and the retail network.

Royal Mail do not regard this as a new issue, so there will not be an official first day cover or First Day of Issue postmarks. But the stamps are very different. The basic and most obvious difference is that the earlier stamps had conventional perforations all round, but the latest booklet has stamps with an elliptical elongated perforation on the long side, similar to the Machin definitives.

In some ways it is unfortunate that the perforations are different, because there is still scope in these stamps for philatelic study, as can be seen in the enlarged images on this page. Note also that the edge-strip is inverted compared to the previous booklets.

booklet of 6 self-adhesive 1st class greetings stamps.
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Technical details:
The booklets are printed by Walsall Security Print in gravure, and the stamps are, as usual, self-adhesive.
All images except FDCs are Royal Mail Copyright 2006/7.


Norvic Exclusive First Day Cover

We produced a small number of exclusive covers for this booklet, with the advertisement and colour strip, priced at £6.75
Postmarked with N10875 or W10881

Norvic first day cover for 28 February 2008 Greetings stamp booklet.


Special Postmarks
... for the booklet are shown here. Postmarks produced for the Kings and Queens: Houses of Lancaster and York stamp issue can also be used on covers for the booklet. - these may not be to scale - we do not expect any more to be announced. These postmarks cannot be obtained after the date of issue.

postmark illustrated with statue of Britannia. postmark illustrated with supersonic airliner Concorde. Stampex official postmark. postmark illustrated with balloons.
Ref N10875
A Special Moment, Britannia, Bacup, Lancashire
Ref W10881
A Special Moment, British, Talywain, Pontypool
Ref L10866
Spring Stampex, London N1
Ref L9579
Happy Birthday, Mount Pleasant EC1
Any postmarks on the Permanent Postmarks page can also be used.


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This page updated 16 March 2008

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February
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Working Dogs
28 Kings and Queens I
28 Greetings retail booklet
March
11
Celebrating Northern Ireland MS and Glorious Northern Ireland Smiler Sheet
13 Mayday - Rescue at Sea
April
1
Rate change Machin & Country stamps
1 Territorial Army commemorative sheet
15 Endangered Species - Insects
May
13
Cathedrals
13 Retail booklet - summer
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10
Classic Films
July
17
Air Displays, powered flight
24 Olympics commemorative sheet
August
5
Beijing Expo 2008 Smilers Sheet
22 Olympics handover Joint issue
September
18 British Military Uniforms (II - Royal Air Force)
29 50th Anniv. regional stamps MS
29 Glorious UK Smilers sheet
October
14
Women of Distinction
28 Smilers for Kids
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4
Christmas (Pantomime)
6 Lest We Forget
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