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Daniel
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 May 2021 at 04:28 |
In the 1960s Thomas De La Rue came up with a new printing process, Delacryl. Supposedly 'the first printing process in the world specifically designed for stamp printing'. In reality, it was an enhanced offset-lithographic process. Here is a brochure from de La Rue with a set of 6 dummy stamps printed using Delacryl:
Scan_20210518 by Daniel, on Flickr
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Daniel
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 May 2021 at 06:39 |
Here's another Thomas De La Rue Delacryl sheet. This time announcing the move of their headquarters to Basingstoke in April 1970.
Scan_20201010 by Daniel, on Flickr
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Daniel
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 29 October 2021 at 14:10 |
From a complete sheet (too big for my scanner) of these Thomas De La Rue self-adhesive test stamps. They were issued in 2001 for Post Office staff training prior to the issue of the Christmas 2001 stamps which were the first British self-adhesive stamps that could be sold individually from a sheet. De La Rue no longer produce any postage stamps, having lost their Machin contract when they moved their stamp printing to Malta. They do however, continue to produce revenue stamps for various countries but not for the UK since adhesive revenues are no longer used here.
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