It is the end of an era with a last set of commemorative stamps featuring the late Queen Elizabeth.
Stamps marking the centenary of the Flying Scotsman will be the last to feature the late Queen's silhouetteThe last set of new stamps showing the late Queen's head are being issued by Royal Mail, featuring the centenary of the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive.
This marks the end of an era, with this familiar version of Queen Elizabeth II's silhouette having appeared on special stamps since 1968. These final stamps of the Elizabethan era can be ordered from Tuesday, and will go on general release next week.Such sets of special stamps have long-term planning schedules, and the Royal Mail has kept to publication plans made before the late Queen's death last September.The 12 stamps featuring the Flying Scotsman will be the last to show the Queen's silhouette, with this design updating an earlier image.
These farewell stamps will show the steam locomotive, built in 1923 and running between London and Edinburgh, in settings including North Yorkshire, Northumberland, Berwick-on-Tweed and Victoria Station in London. The series also shows poster artwork from the 1920s and 1930s, with Royal Mail spokesman David Gold saying the stamps evoke "the golden age of steam travel".
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