Plans for stamp sheets in 2009

I've been asked by a few people

Why are we doing so many sheets now?

It's a good question.

I hadn’t intended to produce so many stamp sheets when we started. But they are proving very popular with charities and organisations. And because we work so often with organisations, we find we are being asked to produce more and more official stamp sheets.

So we do produce more sheets than I would like at the moment but if we didn’t help, the organisation would only ask one of our competitors to produce their sheet instead!

And as we are working with them on cover projects anyway, it seems more sensible to produce a special sheet for them too.

HOT NEWS! HOT NEWS! HOT NEWS! HOT NEWS! HOT NEWS!

50^th Anniversary of the Mini

Next year sees some fantastic Buckingham stamp sheets. We are working with the Heritage Motor Museum at Gaydon who own Mini 1, which is rather applicable for the fiftieth anniversary. It’s the old BMC museum so it’s got lots of minis of all sorts. The illustration on our Mini stamp sheet is of Paddy Hopkirk winning 1964 Monte Carlo Rally and the sheet will be signed by him. There will be no multisigned editions.

40^th Anniversary of Concorde – AMAZING autograph!

Design work on our 40th anniversary of Concorde sheet is now finished. This will have a VERY unusual signature. It’s being signed by an engineer who flew on the very first British Concorde flight. There will also be an outstanding multisigned edition with loads of NEW great 1969 Concorde autographs. More details soon.

Great Little Trains of Wales

We are working with 10 little railways in Wales. We’re producing a stamp sheet for them and over the next 2 years, there will also be a set of 10 covers. As you can see, the sheet is superb. Again, there will be no multisigned edition.

60^th Anniversary of the Comet

Finally, the comet celebrates 60 years in 2009 and our striking stamp sheet will be signed by John Wilson, the 1949 Test pilot. It was John Wilson, along with Cats Eyes Cunningham, who got commercial jet travel going.

And more! Next year also sees:

· 40^th Anniversary of the first man on the moon

We are officially working with the Science Museum who asked us for this sheet.

· 100 years since Bleriot flew the channel

We are working locally in Dover to celebrate this landmark.

· 500^th Anniversary of the Tudor warship, the Mary Rose

We are officially working with the Mary Rose, who asked us for a sheet.

As you can see a great 2009 programme and as even more people find out about our sheets, they seem to disappear rather quickly.

I'll get images up here as soon as I can.

I'm pretty down in the dumps at the moment, lots of things are going wrong so bear with me .....