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Retail Stamp Booklets 2010

We understand that there will be several retail booklets this year, and rather than create a page for each one, they will mostly be shown here. Those issued in conjunction with other stamp issues will be linked to the appropriate page - see below.  The Machin definitives will have security features.    A number of ordinary definitive retail booklets have been issued in which the security overlay has the new MA10 code for 2010.  These were issued on 26 January, 24 February, and 8 May;  details of these and new Business Sheets and counter sheet stamps are summarised in our blog.

Schedule of issues:

Booklet 1: 7 January 2010 - Olympics/Paralympics 1: Judo and Archery

Booklet 2: 25 February 2010 - Olympics/Paralympics 2: Track Athletics and Basketball.

Booklet 3: 30 March 2010 - London 2010 Festival of Stamps advertising

Booklet 4: 15 June 2010 - Endangered Mammals

Booklet 5: 27 July 2010 - Olympics/Paralympics 3: rowing and table tennis

Ordinary retail booklets: 19 August 2010: 12 x 2nd and 6 x 1st with Printer's name removed.

Booklet 6:  15 September 2010 - Design Classics 5 - Spitfire.

Booklet 7:  12 October 2010 - Olympics/Paralympics 4: football and BMX biking

Olympic/Paralympics Booklet 1 - 7 January 2010 Note that these stamps will be self-adhesive (unsoakable) whereas the original stamps issued in October 2009 were conventionally gummed.  Although issued in 2010 this booklet contains 2009-style Machin definitives with no security year code.		Let me know when this page changes it's private! powered by ChangeDetection
	Ref M11583,  London Road, Birmingham	Ref L11571 Stratford, London E15
	Ref L11570  London W2	Ref L11557 Great Britain Medal Heroes, Stratford London E15.
Olympic/Paralympics Booklet 2 - 25 February 2010 Note that these stamps will be self-adhesive (unsoakable) whereas the original stamps issued in October 2009 were conventionally gummed. This booklet contains Machin stamps with a new security code MA10 as well as MCIL (FD 25.2.2010):	Ref L11637 Stratford, London E15	Ref L11638 Stratford, London E15
	Ref L11570  London W2	Ref M11643, London Road, Birmingham
	Ref L11557 Great Britain Medal Heroes, Stratford London E15.	Space intentionally left blank.
London 2010 Festival of Stamps advertising retail book - 30 March 2010	This booklet contains stamps with a new security code: MA10 in addition to MSIL: FDoI was not 30 March but 25 January as the same code was used in an earlier book of 6 with an amended postcode advertisement.	Special postmarks were not produced for this booklet, but many of the postmarks in use for the new tariff Machin and Country definitive stamps could be used.
Endangered Mammals retail booklet - 15 June 2010 Note that these stamps will be self-adhesive (unsoakable) whereas the original stamps issued 13 April were conventionally gummed.	Earsham, Bungay                          Haddenham, Aylesbury	M11782 - Hedgetree Croft, Birmingham
Olympic/Paralympics Booklet 3 - 27 July 2010 Note that these stamps will be self-adhesive (unsoakable)	Postmarks for use with this booklet will be featured on the Olympics II page when they are announced.	Space intentionally left blank.
Definitive-only retail booklets - 19 August 2010 Two more retail booklets are being issued without the printer's name: 12 x 2nd - Cylinders W4 W2(p) W1 and 6 x 1st - Cylinders W5 W1(p) W1	The booklets are printed by Walsall, and the stamps have the normal year and source codes with no other differences as far as I can see.  That means both are MA10, with MSIL on the 1st and MTIL on the 2nd class.  All booklets we have, cylinder and non-cylinder, have 7.5mm edge strips - this may be the standard in future as the wide strip is already standard on Christmas booklets.	Space intentionally left blank.
Design Classics Retail Booklet 5 - 15 September 2010 Containing 2 x Spitfire and 4 x Machin 1st class stamps   Note that these stamps are self-adhesive (unsoakable)	Postmarks for use with this booklet will be featured on the Battle of Britain page when they are announced.	Space intentionally left blank.
Olympic/Paralympics Booklet 4 - 12 October 2010 Note that these stamps will be self-adhesive (unsoakable)		Ref L11570  London W2
	Ref L11884 Wembley  ---  Ref M11888, Birmingham
	Ref L11886  Oxford -- Ref N11890 - Manchester These postmarks have been produced to create Royal Mail Olympic Souvenir Covers.

Royal Mail do not regard these as a new issues, so there will are no official first day covers or First Day of Issue postmarks, unless they are issued on the same day as the main issue (Olympics book 3). 

However we will usually proudce a small number of FDCs using the appropriate FDCs.

Technical details:
The booklets are printed by Walsall Security Print and the stamps are self-adhesive, non-soakable.    (All images are Royal Mail Copyright 2009/10.)  

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This page updated 24 September 2010

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January 7 Classic Album Covers 7 Olympic Games retail book 1 26 Business & Customised Smilers MS	February 2 Girl Guide Centenary 25 350th ann of the Royal Society 25 Olympic Games retail book 2	March 1 Castles of Wales 11 Battersea Dogs & Cats Home 23 House of Stewart 30 Machin & Country Definitives 30 Festival of Stamps retail advertising book	April 13 Endangered Mammals	May 6 Accession of George V* 8 The King's Stamps* & London 2010 Souvenirs * 13 Britain Alone (1940)* * London 2010 Festival of Stamps issues 18 Halley's Comet Commemorative Sheet	June 15 House of Stuart 15 Endangered Mammals Retail Booklet
July 8 British Grand Prix Commemorative Sheet 27 Olympics & Paralympics II & Olympic Games retail book 3	August 10 London Eye Commemorative Sheet 19 Great British Railways I 19 Retail booklets: 12x2nd, 6x1st	September 15 Battle of Britain - Spitfire Generic Sheet & Retail booklet 16 Medical Breakthroughs 17 Faststamps: Bird pictorials	October 12 Children's Books 12 Olympic Games retail book 4 26 Special Delivery Machins 28 Remembrance: the National Arboretum	November 2 Christmas - Wallace & Gromit	HOME Site Map
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