Norvic Philatelics - GB New Stamps and Special Postmarks

50th Anniversary of the Royal Shakespeare Company - 12 April 2011

To mark the 50th Anniversary of the charter* of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Mail is issuing a set of 6 stamps and a miniature sheet.  Working with the Company Royal Mail selected six iconic Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Shakespeare’s plays to illustrate the issue.

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				Stamp designs - images show old postage rates: 1st class - Hamlet The stamp shows former Dr Who David Tennant as Hamlet in 2008; 66p - The Tempest Antony Sher plays Prospero in the 2009 production; 68p - Henry VI Chuk Iwuji plays Henry VI in the 2006 production; 76p - King Lear A classic shot of Paul Schofield as Lear from 1962; £1.00 - A Midsummer Night’s Dream Sara Kestelman plays the fairy queen Titania from 1970.; £1.10 - Romeo and Juliet Ian McKellen and Francesca Annis play the doomed lovers from 1976

The Miniature Sheet comprises of four stamps showing a collage of the four theatres from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Stratford-upon-Avon campus against a background based upon the concept of the stage, with actors and theatrical scenery 1st class - Royal Shakespeare Theatre 68p - Swan Theatre 76p - The Courtyard Theatre £1.00 - The Other Place

Technical details:

The conventionally gummed stamps are designed by Hat-trick and are printed in gravure by Walsall Security Printers. The stamp size is 35 x 35mm and perforations 14.5 x 14.5.
The miniature sheet is 115 x 89mm, with stamps 41 x 30mm, designed by Hat-trick and printed by Cartor Security Printing in lithography.

All images are Copyright Royal Mail 2011.

Products issued:
Mint set  
Mint miniature sheet 
Presentation Pack (contains set and MS) 
Set on PO FDC  
MS on PO FDC  
Set of 11 Stamp Cards 

Special Postmarks
Postmarks available for the day of issue are shown below these may not be to scale.  NOTE: These postmarks cannot be obtained after the date of issue.

Ref FD1119 * Philatelic Bureau Official Postmark	Ref FD1120 * Stratford-upon-Avon Official Postmark	Ref FD1120NP Stratford-upon-Avon non-pictorial Postmark	Ref M12103 Hamlet Road, Birmingham	Ref M12104 Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon
Ref M12105 Waterside, Stratford-upon-Avon	Ref M12107 Old Town, Stratford-upon-Avon	Ref M12106 Southern Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon	Ref N12109 The Royal Shakespeare Company, Rose Lane, Liverpool	Ref L12102 Shakespeare birthplace trust, Stratford-Upon-Avon
			FD1119 & FD1120 are applied to Royal Mail's standing order first day covers in red ink.
Ref L12099  The Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames	Ref L12114 Shakespeare Way, Feltham, Middlesex	Ref L12113 The Shakespeare, London, EC1		Ref M4678 Stratford-upon-Avon permanent postmark showing Swan Theatre, Waterside.

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