SGMS3747 Long To Reign Over Us Miniature Sheet (
DMS31) - 5 stamps.
Deegam: DG DMS31
Royal Mail Ref: MZ110
Issued: 09.09.2015.
Format: Mint Never Hinged (MNH)
Comprises four Intaglio stamps featuring William Wyon’s City Medal, Dorothy Wilding’s 1952 portrait, the Badge of the House of Windsor and The Queen’s Personal Emblem; together with a First Class Definitive in Amethyst Purple with a ‘Long to Reign Over Us’ overprint.
Note: The actual MS is slightly different from that issued in the Presentation Pack.
Miniature Sheet Technical Specifications
- Sheet Size: 179mm x 74mm
- Stamp format size: Portrait 20mm x 24mm Landscape 34mm x 24mm
- Sheet Design: Sedley Place
- Printer: International Security Printers
- Print process: Machin Definitive –gravure. All others – intaglio and iridescent ink.
- Perforation: 15 x 14
- Phosphor Bars as appropriate
- Gum: PVA
- Number per sheet: 5
NOTE: The stamps in the sheet have the wording LONG TO REIGN OVER US repeated in an iridescent layer of printing not only on the 1st class Machin definitive but also on the other four stamps. This makes them the first commemorative stamps to have iridescent security printing.
** Updated to 2018 Concise **
This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 09 September, 2015.
