From Edinburgh today comes a somewhat less than inspiring bundle of 'new' items. The coil strips look exciting - strips usually are - but the 2nd Class is M12L MTIL which I featured in a February post. There may be something different that I haven't noticed and the first one did come from a specialist source. It would seem a bit unlikely, though, that it has taken the Philatelic Bureau staff six months longer to realise that this is out there. Then, of course, there's that 2012 date code! What is that about - or has this strip been around for two years and they've just realised?
My guess is that there's something else different. I just don't know what it is yet. The first class is different, I am pleased to report. It is M13L MTIL which I haven't seen before, despite that being a 2013 code!
There were also five new booklets issued today. They have a new telephone number or something on them but what we're really interested in is the stamps and, yes, there are four that you'll need.
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| MA14 MFIL |
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| MA14 MFIL |
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| M14L MTIL |
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| M14L MSIL |
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| M14L MTIL |
The 1st Class M14L MTIL has been around before but the others are all new.
I have always found it odd that everyone use MA14 or whatever on the Large issues but M14L on the normal sizes. There were some oddities in previous years but generally all the Large ones have an MAØØ type code and others the M1ØL style.
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