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Magical Realms from the Royal Mail

February 28th, 2011

gb20110302 Magical Realms from the Royal Mail

The Royal Mail will issue a set of 8 stamps titled magical Realms on 8 March 2011.

Designs of the stamps are as follow:

1st class:
Rincewind & Nanny Ogg (Terry Pratchett’s Discworld)
Dumbledore & Lord Voldemort (JK Rowling’s Harry Potter)
60p:
Merlin & Morgan Le Fay (Arthurian Legend)
97p
Aslan & The White Witch (C S Lewis’s Narnia)

gb2011030 Magical Realms from the Royal Mail

Also to be issued on the same day will be 5 low value Machin definitives in the self-adhesive format. Royal Mail will eventually only release all Machin definitives in self-adhesive format. The Machins will have the security slits but not the iridescent overprint.

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Queen portrait’s photographer used for stamps dies

June 9th, 2010

Picture: Copyright John Hedgecoe/TopFoto

John Hedgecoe, whose photograph of the Queen was used to design the image that appears on stamps of Great Britain and many other countries have died 3 June 2010.

The profile shot of the Queen, shown above, was used by Arnold Machin to make a plaster cast, was then re-photographed by Hedgecoe and used for the stamp image design.

This photograph is believed to be the most reproduced worldwide and used on over 200 billion stamps.

Source: Amateur Photographer

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Machin Stamps Online Catalogue

July 12th, 2008

The Connoisseur Catalogue of Machin Stamps is now online. New updates are being
added regularly and once the catalogue is fully updated, they will be levying a
charge for access. Updated pages are those with colour images.

deegams Machin Stamps Online Catalogue If you are a Machin collector, you should also get yourself The Complete Deegam Machin Handbook by well known Machin expert Douglas Myall. This catalogue is available in printed or CD ROM versions.