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Peter Blake Designed a Millenium Stamp.

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I used to be a stamp collector but music and art took over. However, I did buy two complete sheets of the set of Beatles record cover stamps issued by the Royal Mail on 7th January, 2007.

The 2007 Beatles cover stamps.


These stamps showed six of the Beatles’ original thirteen album covers, including Peter Blake’s & Jann Haworth’s Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. These stamps were thus not designed by the cover artists.

I only recently discovered that Sir Peter Blake had actually designed a stamp. This was one of the Millenium series issued by the Royal Mail on 1st June, 1999, called The Entertainers Series and consisted of four stamps.

The Entertainer Series of GB Millenium stamps.


The Freddie Mercury stamp, I discovered, was designed by Peter Blake and I decided I would get a nice block of these. Douglas White, of Queen Fan Store, had a block of 25 of these on offer and, after a little haggling, they arrived.

The quarter sheet of Freddie Mercury stamps.

Douglas included the official Royal Mail postcard.

The official Royal Mail postcard depicting the stamp.

A nice addition to my collection of Peter Blake’s music-related art.