This product is in mint condition. It comes framed in A5 size. -
The booklet reads as follows
This issue of rose stamps marks the Centenary of the Royal National Rose Society, of which HM The Queen Mother is the Patron. The Society has over 60,000 members with its headquarters, display gardens and trial grounds at St Albans.
The highlights of the Centenary will be the Summer Show at Westminster and the International Rose Conference in Oxford in early July. Linked with the Centenary 1976 is The Year of The Rose, aimed to promote the growing and giving of roses.
During the last 100 years roses have developed from the early Hybrid Teas of red, pink or white and the polyantha roses,
The Centenary of the
Royal National Rose Society
and later from the hybrid polyantha to today's Hybrid Tea and Floribunda roses and the repeat-flowering modern shrub and climbing roses.
The roses portrayed on the stamps are:- The Sweet Briar, Rosa rubiginosa, or Eglantine, with single pink flowers and aromatic leaves.
Rosa Mundi, Rosa gallica versicolor, a shrub rose with semi-double light crimson flowers, splashed with blush pink and white, a sport from Rosa gallica officinalis. 'Elizabeth of Glamis', a salmon-pink floribunda, bred from 'Spartan' and 'Highlight' and named after HM The Queen Mother.
'Grandpa Dickson', a lemon-yellow Hybrid Tea, bred from a seedling from 'Perfecta' and 'Governador Braga da Cruz' crossed with 'Piccadilly'.
The four stamps, issued on 30 June 1976, were designed by Kristin Rosenberg RMS and printed in photogravure by Harrison and Sons Limited. The size is 41 X 30mm; perforations are 15 × 14; number per sheet, 100. The format is vertical; the paper is unwatermarked, coated, and phosphor treated.
The first day cover was designed by Ken Rolf MSIA MSTD.
Full details of future issues of British postage stamps and philatelic facilities can be obtained from the British Post Office Philatelic Bureau, Lothian House, 124 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BB.