GB 1970 General Anniversaries

• Date of Issue: lst April 1 1970
• Designed by: Fritiz Wegner and Marjorie Saynor
• Printed by: Harrison and Sons Ltd
• Print Process: Photogravure
• Sheet Format: 120 (6 by 20)
• Size 41.5mm (h) x 24.5mm (v)
• Perforations 15 x 14
• Withdrawn: 31st March 1971

Sheet Stamps

5d	9d	1s
1s 6d	1s 9d

First Day Covers

FDC - Philatelic Bureau, Edinburgh

First Day Cover- London Road, High Wycombe

Presentation Pack

Errors

Cover, 5d., missing gold head; Yatton, Bristol cancel.

Cover, 5d., detail: missing gold head

1/-, missing brown. The coat and trousers of the second figure at right affected. Peirron states that two sheets (240 stamps) were affected.

Detail, normal.

Detail, missing brown.

References & sources

• Peirron, Tom. Modern Great Britain & Commonwealth missing colour errors 1952 to date. [England]: www.errors.info, 2008, p. 158.