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Thursday 21 February 2019

Marvel - Less Machins - Comical


The second Prestige booklet of the year has been announced. It is designed and will be marketed to attract Marvel Comic collectors or comic fans. The date of issue is March 14 2019.

The mixed Machin pane is receiving a lot of criticism

I have spoken to several collectors regarding the lack of Machin new values connected to the Marvel Comics issue, and they all say the same thing or most  are on the same page. One new value on the prestige mixed pane £1.45 code M18L and one new value, 1st class code M19L in the custom booklet is all you will get. The other values 1p, 20p and £1.25p were issued last year, available on the Harry Potter mixed pane.

If you do not collect special issues It will pay you to purchase the new £1.45 value from a dealer rather than buy the complete book. As a key issue this will no doubt cost quite bit over face, dealers will be still able to make a profit and use the leftovers as general postage.

I dare say we will get another couple of prestige booklet before the year is out. The Machins will no doubt carry a 2019 code on further issues, lets hope for a bit more variety with the values.

The end of March or beginning of April will bring about the usual tariff increase, Although I do not buy self adhesives (only for postage) I am looking forward to it.

Thanks go to Ian Billings, who has put the images along with information and all the special issues on his blog. Below is the custom booklet.


Carry on Collecting, scrubbed that in case Royal Mail think we need more wall paper :-)

1 comment:

Ian - Norvic said...

Update to this, now that the stamps have been received.

The P is missing from MPIL on these stamps so there are 4 new stamps, which will get full (sub-number) Concise listing. Pictures on my blog.