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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).
Until 1924, all British stamps depicted only the portrait of the reigning monarch, with the exception of the 'High Value' stamps (the so-called "Sea Horses" design) issued in 1913, which were twice the size of normal stamps with added pictorial design. In 1924, the first commemorative stamp was issued for the British Empire Exhibition. There ...
Special Stamps with pictures, and Christmas Stamps are also produced; they bear a small profile silhouette of the monarch. First- and second-class postage was introduced in 1968. In 1989, Non-Value Indicated (NVI) stamps were produced marked "1st" and "2nd", valid for the lowest weight of that class.
Issue number Issue date Issue title Details of stamps in issue Designer(s) 2022 [24]; 611 2022-01-20 Music Giants VI – The Rolling Stones 8 stamps: 1st class ×4: London, UK, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA 2019, Rotterdam, Netherlands 1995, Tokyo, Japan 1995, £1.70 ×4: New York City, USA 1972, Oslo, Norway 2014, Hertfordshire, UK 1976 Düsseldorf, Germany 2017.
2 stamps: 1st Class X 2: A Man's A Man for A' That, Burns portrait (by Alexander Nasmyth), and 4 miniature stamps. [10] 2009-01-12 200th Anniversary Birth of Charles Darwin: 6 stamps ("jigsaw" shaped stamps symbolising how Darwin's studies of different disciplines formed his new ideas on evolution) + MS. [11] 2009-02-26 Celebrating Wales MS ...
Issue number Issue date Issue title Details of stamps in issue Designer(s) 2013 480 2013-01-09 150th anniversary of the London Underground: The stamps were issued illustrated the Metropolitan Railway (2nd Class), the deep-tube tunnels (2nd Class), Edwardian commuters (1st Class), Boston Manor station (1st Class), 1938 tube stock (£1.28) and Canary Wharf station (£1.28).
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The first commemorative stamp was issued in 1924 for the British Empire Exhibition, and since the mid-1960s, six to nine sets of commemorative stamps are released each year. PHQ cards, postcard-sized reproductions of commemorative stamps, have also been issued since the mid-1970s.