The latest in the Music Giants series sees Royal Mail celebrating one of Britain's best loved singers, Dame Shirley Bassey.
The prestige stamp booklet comprises sixteen stamps - all eight from the stamp issue and the four stamps from the miniature sheet, together with four barcoded Machin Definitives arranged around two labels - four panes in total. The Machin Definitives are unique to this stamp issue, being printed in lithography.
Cover 3 in the definitive set notes the fact that in 2003 she sold 50 of her gowns at auction to raise money for the building of a children's hospital in Cardiff and bears an Edinburgh handstamp.