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This is a list of British postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail postal service of the United Kingdom, normally referred to in philatelic circles as Great Britain. This list should be consistent with printed publications, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and cite sources of any deviation (e.g., magazine issue listing newly found variations).
British Paintings Four 25 November 1968 Christmas Three 1969 15 January 1969 British Ships Six (5d, 3 × 9d se-tenant, 2 × 1s se-tenant) David Gentleman [4] 3 March 1969 First flight of Concorde: Three (4d, 9d, 1s 6d) Michael Goaman [12] & David Gentleman [4] 2 April 1969 Anniversaries Five 28 May 1969 British Architecture, Cathedrals Six 1 ...
Up to the 1950s, British commemorative stamps were few and far between; most of the stamps were what are officially called "definitives", [20] in which the portrait of the reigning monarch was the dominant element. Even after commemorative stamps began to appear more often during the 1950s and early 1960s, the monarch's effigy was prominent ...
This is a list of all the major variations of the Machin series of postage stamps in the United Kingdom. The complete list of all variations is vast and outside the scope of this encyclopedia. Note: the colours and the colour descriptions are to be used to give an idea only, as each catalogue and website will name the colours differently.
The value of a guinea fluctuated between 20 and 30 shillings before being fixed at 21 shillings in December 1717. These are denominations of British, or earlier English, coins – Scottish coins had different values.
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2000: 150th anniversary of the Public Libraries Act 1850; 2003: 100th anniversary of the Women's Social and Political Union (the Suffragettes) 2004: 50th anniversary of the first four-minute mile by Roger Bannister; 2005: 250th anniversary of the publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language
A silver object that is to be sold commercially is, in most countries, stamped with one or more silver hallmarks indicating the purity of the silver, the mark of the manufacturer or silversmith, and other (optional) markings to indicate the date of manufacture and additional information about the piece.