Stamps with a Newport Connection
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25 August 1971 - Rugby stamp in the British anniversaries series shows a player in the Newport colours - no special Gwent postmark. |
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10 July 1974 – Henry V , Monmouth's most famous son, from the series “Famous Men in British History” - no special Gwent postmark. |
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Air letter issued in 1989 that shows a view of Tintern Abbey |
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25 February 1992 – Stamp booklet celebrating Wales – included a picture of Tintern Abbey and the logo for the Ebbw Vale Garden Festival |
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15 June 1993 - Caerleon button stamp in Roman Britain series - there were two Caerleon postmarks in connection with this issue, one from the Philatelic Bureau and the other from Benham's |
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20 July 1993 - Monmouth and Brecon Canal in British waterways series - Benham's produced a special first day of issue postmark for this issue
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Although not connected with Newport, the 1995 stamps showing cats resulted in two more Benham's postmarks for Gwent, for Catsash and Catbrook |
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The RNLI commissioned a postmark in connection with the Great Tudors series issued on 21 January 1997 at Six Bells, Abertillery |
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On 23 June 1988, there were three postmarks from Tredegar and one from Ebbw Vale in connection with the National Health stamp issue. A further Ebbw Vale postmark was produced on 5 July 1998 |
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For the Millennium series, a postmark appeared for the Patent Office , Newport (Inventors Tale) on 12 January 1999 and for Tredegar (Patients Tale) on 2 March 1999 |
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Buckingham Covers produced a further postmark for Catsash in connection with the Cats booklet issued on 13 February 2001, although the name was written as "Cats Ash". |
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Royal Mail produced a cancel for Christchurch, Newport in connection with the 2006 Christmas issue (1 November 2006) |
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Royal Mail produced a cancel for the Greeting Stamps issued on 28 February 2008 for British, Talywain, Pontypool |
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28 February 2008 – The Houses of Lancaster and York set included Henry V on one first class stamp and the miniature sheet included a scene from the Battle of Agincourt. Henry V was born in Monmouth Castle and Newport Civic Centre has a scene from Agincourt as one of its murals
No Gwent day of issue postmark but special postmark from Monmouth Castle from 21 March 2008. |
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The Glorious Wales sheet issued on St David's Day (1 March 2007) that includes labels for the Second Severn Crossing Bridge and Tintern Abbey, in English and Welsh. |
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26 February 2009 – Celebrating Wales Presentation pack includes one illustration showing St David in a stained glass window at St Woolo's Cathedral, Newport |
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1 March 2010 – Castles of Wales – sheet includes a label for Chepstow Castle. |
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