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First Day Cover commemorating the Post Office Tower

1965

First Day Cover commemorating the Forth Road Bridge with 3d

1964

Centenary of the International Telecommunication Union (1865-1965)

1965

First Day Cover commemorating the 20th International Geographical Congress

1964

Royal Mail First Day Cover

1994

Women of Achievement

1996

First day cover and 5 schilling stamp featuring Dr Erwin Schrodinger 1887-1961

1987

First day cover and four stamps at 18

1987

'50th Anniversary of Motion Pictures, 1894-1944'

1944

Nobel Prize 100th Anniversary

2001

First Day Cover commemorating Free Trade within the European Free Trade Association (EFTA)

1967

The epic voyage of Sir Francis Chichester

1967

Weather

2001

First Day Cover commemorating British Discovery and Invention

1967

Royal Festival Hall 1951-2001

2001

Set of Royal Mail mint stamps for 19

1989

Set of Royal Mail mint stamps for 19

1989

First day cover

1966
First day cover, souvenir cover, British Rail is Inter Rail via Harwich & Zeebrugge, postmarked 13 Aug 1975 Harwich and 14 Aug 1975 Bruges, with British and Belgian stamps and illustration of Hawrich-Zeebrugge steam ferry

First day cover

1975
First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives - stamp depicts the 20th Century Limited. Issued 27 August 1999.

First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives

1999
First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives - stamp depicts the Daylight. Issued 27 August 1999.

First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives

1999
First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives - stamp depicts the Super Chief. Issued 27 August 1999.

First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives

1999
Philatelic first day cover, issued by the Irregular Special Railway Company, The Sherlock Holmes Railway Society, 18 January 1994. Envelope with five Royal Mail stamps from The Age of Steam series by photographer Colin Gifford. The cover features a reproduction of Sidney Paget’s 1892 illustration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s story, The Adventure of Silver Blaze. The illustration, titled ‘Holmes gave me a sketch of the events’, depicts Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes in a railway carriage on a journey to Dartmoor. A simplified version of the illustration also appears in the two frank markings inked over the stamps. The stamps, in five denominations are 19p depicting Class 5 No 44957 and Class B1 No. 61343 on West Highland Line; 25p depicting Class A1 No. 60149 Amadis at Kings Cross; 30p depicting Class 4 No. 43000 on Turntable at Blyth North; 35p depicting Class 4 No. 42455 near Wigan Central; 41p depicting Class Castle No. 7002 Devizes Castle on Bridge crossing Worcester and Birmingham Canal. The stamps, in photogravure and PVA gum, were designed by Delaney Design Consultants, printed by Harrison & Sons Ltd. Text on the cover gives details of the society and the address of Antony Richards. At top right is a small illustration of a tank locomotive with deerstalker and pipe.

First day cover, Irregular Special Railway Company

1994
First day cover: 'British Discovery', featuring television (Baird), penicillin (Fleming), radar (Watson-Watt) and the jet engine (Whittle). Envelope contains card bearing details of the stamps and the discoveries issued by the GPO, 1967

British Discovery

1967
First day cover celebrating the 140th anniversary of the German Railways issued by the Nurnberg Railway Museum on 7 December 1975. Postcard featuring a colour image of Der Alder, with postages and date stamps on the rear.

First day cover celebrating the 140th anniversary of German Railways

1975
First Day Cover, commemorative, issued to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the National Museum of Indian Railways, 1996.

indian railway museum first day cover

1996
First Day Cover, commemorative, issued to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the National Museum of Indian Railways, 1996.

indian railway museum first day cover

1996
First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives - stamp depicts the Congressional. Issued 27 August 1999.

First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives

1999