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1st Class – LMS No. 7720 leaves the Britannia Bridge with a Bangor-to-Holyhead local train c.1930.
78p - Hunslet No. 589 Blanche rounds the curve off ‘The Cob’, passing Pen Cob Halt on the Ffestiniog Railway, 1964.
88p - W&LLR No. 822 The Earl waits on Union Street, Welshpool, while a car is moved from the line.
£1.28 - BR No. 5652 heads a coal train at Cwmbargoed, Merthyr Tydfil, 1959.
Pane 1 - 2p & 5p Machin definitives with security codes MPIL M13L ; England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland 1st class country definitives, total face value £2.54.
Pane 2 - England: 2 x 1st class, 2 x 60p Locomotives of England (£2.40)
Pane 3 - Scotland: 2 x 1st class, 2 x 68p Locomotives of Scotland (£2.56)
Pane 4 - Northern Ireland: 2 x 1st class, 2 x 78p Locomotives of Northern Ireland (£2.76)
Pane 5 - Wales: 2 x 1st class, 2 x 78p Locomotives of Wales (£2.76)
Image 6 - front cover of book.
Selling price £13.97
The book is printed by Enschede so we can expect new entries in Stanley Gibbons GB Concise catalogue for the 8 Locomotives stamps, and the five panes.
The Machin definitives and country definitives will also be considered new stamps by specialist collectors.
The iridescent ink containing the source and year codes does not print well in lithography being better suited to gravure or flexography. The codes are particularly difficult to see on these stamps.
