GB 1961 Post Office Saving Bank

Centenary of the Post Office Savings Bank

• Date of Issue: 28th August 1961
• Designer: 2½d & 1/6d. Michael Goaman. 3d. Peter Gauld
• Printed by: Harrison & Sons Ltd of High Wycombe.
• Print Process: Photogravure
• Sheet Size : Vertical Format. 120 (20 by 6)
• Sheet Size : Horizontal Format. 120 (6 by 20)
• Stamp Vertical Format : 24 mm by 41 mm
• Stamp Horizontal Format : 41 mm by 24 mm
• Perforations: 15 x 14
• Watermark: Multiple Crown
• Quantities Printed: 2½d. 24,720,000; 3d. 114,360,000; 1/6d. 7,560,000
• Withdrawn : 31st December 1961

Sheet Stamps

2½d

3d

1/6d

Cylinder Blocks

• Printed from the Thrissell machine Double pane Cylinders

Perf Type EP Cyl 1D 1B No DOt

Perf Typ EP Cyl 1D 1B DOt

• Following 4 Cylinder Blocks were Printed on the 'Timson' Machine Single Pane Cylinders
• Cylinders 1E 1F The Black 1E is superimposed over the red 1F

Perf Type IP

Perf Typ EP

3D 3E Perf Type PE

3D 3E Perf Type EP

• All 3 Cylinder Blocks were Printed on the 'Thrissell' Machine

3C No Dot below R20/2 The 'C' is engraved over an 'E'	3B No Dot below R20/5
3C. 3B. Dot below R20/5

• Cylinder Blocks were Printed on the 'Timson' Machine

2E 2C Perf Type PI

2E 2C Perf Type PE

First Day Covers

Blythe Road, West Kensington FDC

Lancaster & Morcambe FDC

Varieties

3d - Orange-Brown Omitted

2½d Thissell Printing State II pale mark above central Thrift Flower (State I had a dark red patch)

Orange Brown Omitted Cyl 3D