Великобритания, 06.02.2012 Марки
Dorothy Wilding definitive
Robert Austin banknote portrait
Harry Eccleston banknote portrait
Mary Gillick coinage portrait
Arnold Machin coinage portrait
Royal Mail is celebrating Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with a unique sheet of new 1st Class stamps, featuring iconic images issued throughout the Queen’s 60-year reign.
The Diamond Jubilee Miniature Sheet, issued on 6th February 2012, is the first time that official portraits of The Queen as she appears on stamps, coins and banknotes, have been brought together.
Included among the six stamps is a brand new 1st Class diamond blue definitive stamp, millions of which will replace the current standard gold definitive in Post Offices during 2012.
This Diamond Jubilee Miniature Sheet is the second of three stamp issues in 2012 celebrating The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The first is The House of Windsor, issued on 2 February, which features a 1954 portrait of The Queen, and a special eight-stamp issue featuring the Queen throughout the six decades of her reign, will be issued on 31 May.
The first stamp on the new definitive sheet is the very first stamp issued during Her Majesty The Queen’s reign. This 1952 stamp featured a classic photograph by society photographer Dorothy Wildling.
The set also includes portraits taken from a £1 banknote first issued in 1960, and a £5 note issued in 1971. The images used which are taken from coins include a pre-decimal portrait first issued in 1953, on a coin minted the same year, and an image from a 1971 decimal coin which featured a portrait created by Arnold Machin in 1968.
The new diamond blue Machin stamp completes the set and features Arnold Machin’s iconic image on a blue background that highlights the words ‘Diamond Jubilee’ in iridescent ink. Since it first appeared in 1967, this timeless image has been reproduced on more than 220 billion of Royal Mail’s definitive stamps.
The miniature sheet will be printed in gravure with special techniques: metallic ink is used on coin stamps and iridescent ink on the Machin definitive. The sheet’s background features an iridescent pattern while the title is foil-blocked.
Stephen Agar from Royal Mail said: “Her Majesty The Queen’s likeness is one of the most recognisable and reproduced in the world, and her image is used as the official signifier of the nation on all UK stamps.
Источник: www.worldstampnews.com |
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