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Catalogue information
LastDodo number
6909663
Area
Stamps
Title
Mail by Air
Face value
Country / area
Year
2017
Month
09
Day
13
Issue group
Order Number in Issue
Basic colour
Usage
Theme / topic
Geographical theme
Persons theme
Item subject
Michel number
Yvert number
Scott number
Stanley Gibbons number
FS185a special pack
Designer/Engraver
Printing office
Publisher
Perforation
Watermark
Luminescence
Printing technique
Paper
Print run
Dimensions / diameter
Details
Special Pack Royal Mail Heritage (3) (P&G 25): Mail by Air (Type IIIA)
Strip of ‘1st Class up to 100g’ values from Royal Mail Series II machines at Tallents House
Paper/ Gum: OFNP/SA ;
Year Code: R17YAL ;
Perf.: 14¼ x 14¼ kiss die-cut simulated.
Datastring: B2GB17 C001-1840-025
The spurious data string at the bottom of the stamps is common to all the stamps representing reel, month, country and year of issue; machine, session number and number in P&G series).
‘1840’ is chosen as it is the year when postage stamps were first issued.