Royal Mail celebrates the Centenary of the Magic Circle with a set of 5 novelty stamps and a Smilers Sheet
The stamp designs show:
1st class - 'Heads or Tails'. The design shows a coin, and the
blank centre can be scratched away to reveal either the head or reverse
side. [Arguably collectors may want three versions in their collections,
'heads', 'tails', and hidden.]
40p - 'Rabbit and hat'. This is an optical illusion.
47p - 'Knotted scarf trick'. Thermographic ink on the spotted scarf
will reveal a different scarf when warmed.
69p - 'Card trick'. Another optical illusion.
£1.12 - 'Three-cup trick'. A variation on the three-cup trick using
a pyramid under one of 3 fezzes. Thermographic ink reveals which fez the
pyramid is under.
The stamps are also available for personalisation, and a collectors' generic sheet was also produced. The labels on the sheet show how to perform 4 different illusory tricks. The instructions are hidden on the third label in columns 1, 2 & 3 and the fourth label in column 4.
Technical details:
The stamps are printed in gravure by Walsall Security Print, perf 14.5 x
14, size 41x30mm with PVA gum, in sheets of 25 and 50.
We believe that the Smilers sheets are also printed by Walsall, but
using lithography.
All images
are taken from Royal Mail's Philatelic
Bulletin, and are Copyright
2005 by Royal Mail.
We have again produced our own exclusive covers for this issue.
Note that the postmarks have been applied to these images digitally
and may not be applied exactly as shown, or quite this size.
One cover will have the set of stamps plus the extra 1st class stamp
so that both variations are on the cover. With postmark L9453 or
L9468. Price £8.75:
The Smilers Sheet contains four different strips of 5, which are
split 2/3 on our covers which are postmarked with L9468 or N9486:
Prices:
Cover with 5 stamps and labels from sheets of 20 - £6.50;
Set of 4 covers with 5 stamps and labels on each, ie complete set - £17.50
Cover with single Smilers stamp and label - £3.50
Also available:
Set of 5 from ordinary sheets - £3.75. Mint
Smilers sheet - £7.95
Some special postmarks announced for the Day of Issue are shown
here.
The postmarks shown here cannot be obtained after 15 March 2005
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| Ref FD507 Philatelic Bureau Official Postmark |
Ref FD508 Official Postmark, London NW 1 |
Ref L9453 A Century of Magic London |
Ref L9454 Conjurors ½ Crown, Poole, Dorset Public house/inn Half-Crown | Ref M9457 A Centry of Magic, Daniels Road, Birmingham |
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| Ref L9455 Hand Court, London WC1 |
Ref L9456 Bletchley Park PO Milton Keynes |
Ref L9463 Stephenson Way, London NW1 |
Ref L9468 Logo of the Magic Circle (zodiac signs), London |
Ref L9469 Wandsworth, London SW18 Print this and see it inverted! |
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| Ref L9464 Grant Close, London N14 |
Ref M9484 Selly Oak, Birmingham |
Ref N9487 Southport |
Ref S9488 Glasgow |
Ref W9492 St Austell, Cornwall |
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<<<< Ref L9467 Logo of the Magic Circle (zodiac signs), Stephenson Way, London NW1 |
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<<<< Ref N9486 Prestolee, Bolton Optical illusion - duck's beak or rabbit's ears? |
This page updated 10 March 2005
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May 10 Definitive reprints provisional date |
June 7 Trooping the Colour 21 Smilers sheet - Flag stamp, White Ensign 21 Definitive reprints provisional date |
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