This issue in the Royal Mail Heritage series features the transport of mail by sea with six commemorative stamps depicting historic mail-carrying vessels; Packet Ship 'Antelope' 1780; 'SS Great Western' 1838; 'SS Britannia' 1887; 'HMS Olympic' 1911; 'RMS Queen Mary' 1936 and 'RMS St Helena' 1990.
This GOLD 500 cover carries a dramatic image of a Packet Ship in New York Harbour framed by an intricate 22ct gold-blocked design and a Blackwall, London handstamp for the Thames shipbuilding yard.
Produced in a numbered limited edition of 500.
