January 1, 1970

The new Churchill stamp is one of a set of eight, released by Royal Mail in October 2014, commemorating British Prime Ministers of the past two hundred years (the others are Margaret Thatcher, Harold Wilson, Clement Attlee, William Gladstone, Robert Peel, Charles Grey and William Pitt the Younger). The portrait of Churchill is by Yousuf Karsh, the same portrait used by Australia and New Zealand for their 1965 issues commemorating Churchill’s death.

Buckingham Covers, the leading British producer of First Day Covers, in association with the Churchill Centre, has produced new First Day covers with the new Churchill stamp.

The first features all eight Prime Minister stamps, including the new Churchill one, with a ‘10 Downing Street’ gold block and 10 Downing Street FDI postmark.

The second is an Official Churchill Centre cover with the new Churchill stamp and a full set of 1974 stamps, cancelled with the Churchill Centre postmark, plus a pair of 1965 stamps with Churchill Centre cachet. A few of these are signed by Churchill’s great-grandson, Randolph Spencer-Churchill.

Royal Mail also issued National Portrait Gallery stamps in 2006, including one of Churchill, and Buckingham Covers are offering a 2006 National Portrait Gallery Churchill cover featuring all five 2006 portrait stamps, together with the new Churchill stamp postmarked with our official Churchill Centre on the First Day of Issue.

For more information on any of these, or to buy, go to Buckingham Covers here.