Design And Darwin Prestige Panes

Thanks to John from Stamps of GB I now have pictures of the two Prestige panes mentioned on a earlier post these are:

13th January

Design Classics will be printed by Walsall Security Printers, priced at £ 7.68. In this Prestige booklet there will be a Machin mixed pane, this will have: 4 x 16p; 4 x 50p and a central label.

The Design illustrated Prestige Stamp book, will feature

Pane 1 : (below) The Mixed Machin's 4 x 16p & 4 x 50p


The other panes are Special issues. Although John produced these on his site I have not shown them here.

Pane 2 : 2 x Routemaster Bus stamps, 1 x Spitfire and 1 x Mini stamps,


Pane 3 : One of each - London Underground Map, K2 Telephone Kiosk, Penguin Books, Anglepoise Lamp, Polypropylene Chair and Mini Skirt stamps


Pane 4 : 2 x Concorde stamps from this issue together with 2 x Concorde stamps from the 2002 Airliners Issue.


12th February

Darwin: This booklet will be printed by De La Rue, and will be priced at £ 7.75 . It will also contain a mixed Machin pane : values 2 x 5p; 2 x 10p; 2 x 48p, 2 x 1st class NVIs and a central label.


The Prestige Book entitled 'Charles Darwin 1808 - 1882' (above) contains four panes of stamps : two panes include three of each of the Special issue Darwin stamps in a gummed format, a third features the whole Miniature Sheet, together with the final pane of mixed Machins.