The Age of the Dinosaurs Stamp Set - Royal Mail

[6Foot2]

Link: The Age of the Dinosaurs Stamp Set | Royal Mail

 

 

Eight stamps combine the expert precision of the Natural History Museum’s scientists with the artistic brilliance of digital illustrator Joshua Dunlop, who captures the essence of these mighty reptiles and their habitats.

 

Four First Class and four £2.00 landscape stamps.

 

First Class Tyrannosaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous period between 68 and 66 million years ago

 

First Class Triceratops lived around 68 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period

 

First Class Coloborhynchus was one of the earliest pterosaurs to be discovered

 

First Class Iguanodon lived during the Early Cretaceous period between 125 and 110 million years ago

 

£2.00 Stegosaurus is one of the most recognisable dinosaurs, although we know relatively little about it as remains are rare

 

£2.00 Diplodocus reached up to 27 metres in length and lived 150 million years ago at the end of the Jurassic Period.

 

£2.00 Megalosaurus roamed what is now England between 170 and 155 million years ago

 

£2.00 Cryptoclidus was a plesiosaur that existed from the Middle Triassic to the Late Cretaceous periods

 

Availability: From the 12^th of March.

[Andrew_C]

Stamps - going the way of the dinosaurs....

[6Foot2]

Stamps - going the way of the dinosaurs....

 

Not the first time...

 

 

[Dos_Box]

Stamps - going the way of the dinosaurs....

 

There is a lot of truth in that. I picked up three albums of UK first day covers at an auction for pennies. These covered the mid-70's to the early 2000's and try as I might, I can't shift them on Ebay.

I bought them with just the description and was hoping that there would be some 50's\60's ones in there, but sadly not.

The price for some collectable stamps now is very low and I picked up two first day covers recently to get framed. One is the 1966 England Winners first day cover (AFAIK, the only time the word 'England' has appeared on a UK stamp, and the other the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, both of which when I was younger and collecting would costs a fair few pennies. I paid £4.99 for each.

 

 

 

 

 

The hobby is dying off now and kids don't have much exposure to stamps these days, plus the world has got very small over the past 30 years.

What is happening now is that collectors are passing away and the market is getting flooded with a lot of high quality collections being broken up and the availability of formerly uncommon stamps is high.

It's a bit like the whole rare video game cart thing in the US where they certify them and put them in plastic cases to be collected. It then turned out that these games were not in fact rare, but there are many, many examples that have been sat in boxes in the attic alongside their original console since the 90's. Now awareness about retro game collecting has spread, these attics are now being raided for the collectable goodies within and prices are dropping for some formerly rare carts.

TBH, I prefer older stamps that didn't look like posters that had been shrunk down.

[Andrew_C]

Interesting - I'd been wondering what to do with my father's collection; from the 30s & 40s at a guess.

[Dos_Box]

Interesting - I'd been wondering what to do with my father's collection; from the 30s & 40s at a guess.

 

That should be worth a bit more (older stamps generally are). I'd take it to a stamp shop and have them take a look for you.

Stamps being stamps however, mean a keen eye and in-depth knowledge are needed to sort out the 'common' from rare, even though to the untrained eye they look identical.

I wish I knew what happened to my childhood stamp collection, I think it was passed on once I'd left home and joined the army in the mid-80's.

Along with my ZX81, C16 and Atari 130XE.

I had a lot of penny blacks and reds in there as well as a lot of other Victorian stamps from the early days.

[AlistairB1983]

My inner child (/pedant) can't help but twitch in barely contained indignance at labelling the set Dinosaurs and then immediately including creatures that weren't Dinosaurs!