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Smilers®
stamp sheets were first made available to the British public at the
International Stamp Show 2000. For the first time the British public could
have their own photo-image printed next to a British postage stamp and
send it to a friend or relative. Customised mail had arrived! These
customised stamp sheets have opened up a whole new area of British stamp
collecting and study and is presented here in great detail for the first
time.
Since that launch in 2000, the popularity of
customised stamp sheets has grown with the British public, many 1000’s
of sheets have been ordered by the public using personal images to
decorate their mail. Royal Mail has also introduced additional products
primarily intended for the philatelist and business user.
In 2007 Ridgwood Publications
published the definitive guide to these stamp sheets Customised
Stamp Sheets of Great Britain providing an invaluable collectors guide for all GB stamp
sheet collectors and specialists
alike providing detailed information on these issues together with a price guide
to current market values.
Now 10 years later over seventy
generic stamp sheet designs have been
issued to date, featuring a variety of interesting subjects. Over 250
attractive business customised sheets have been produced by a variety of
organisations covering a wide range of thematic and business promoting
subjects, some with print-runs as low as 100 sheets. The 2nd Edition
issued in February 2010 has been completely revamped,
updated and expanded to include 10 years of Smilers:
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Generic Sheets,
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Customised Stamp Sheets,
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Business Customised Stamp
Sheets,
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Smilers For Kids Packs
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Commemorative Stamp Sheets
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Isle of Man Stamp Sheets
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Universal Mail Customised Stamps
Over 500 full colour ilustrations,
300+ pages, a guide to market prices and much much more.
This comprehensive work has been compiled with the help of several of
the country’s leading Smilers experts and removes the mystery and myths
surrounding this growing area of GB stamp collecting.
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