Mr Machin’s preliminary sketch from January 1966 is featured on one of the six stamp designs Royal Mail is marking the 50th anniversary of the current design on its stamps with a new issue. The stamp, ...

Royal Mail is marking the 50th anniversary of the current design on its stamps with a new issue. The so-called Machin Definitive stamp, with its image of the Queen, has been reproduced in more than ...

A rare original plaster cast used to create the effigy of the Queen's head, which is used on stamps, has been uncovered. Of the original casts, three are held by the Royal Mail. A fourth was recently ...

Royal Mail is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the “Queen’s head” design used on all of its regular stamps. To mark 50 years since the first Machin Definitive stamp was issued in 1967, London-based ...

A new set of stamps is being released to celebrate the centenary of the birth of a historic royal figure. Royal Mail has unveiled 12 special stamps honouring the late Queen Elizabeth II ahead of what ...

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Royal Mail is marking the 50th anniversary of the current design on its stamps with a new issue. The so-called Machin Definitive stamp, with its image of the Queen, has been reproduced in more than ...