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Great British Wilding Definitive Stamps 1952 to Date.
Wilding Definitive stamps are so named after the Portrait used for the design by Dorothy Wilding.
Three different watermarks were used for the Pre Decimal issues. In the 1957 issue Graphite Lines were applied to the back of the stamps as an experiment in connection with Automatic Sorting Machines.
Two further issues were produced, the later with the addition of Phosphor Bands on the front. The Phosphor Bands proved far more effective for the sorting machines and so this method was subsequently used on most later stamps issues for a number of years.
All sets except the 1957 Graphite and 1959 Phosphor Graphite set have some low values that are available with Inverted Watermarks. These all come from Booklets.
Tudor, Edward, Crowns and Phosphor issues also have values with Sideways Watermarks, which come from either Booklets or Coils.
No Wilding sheet stamps have ever been found with an Inverted watermark.
In 1967 Wilding stamps were phased out by the new Machin Head Definitve Issues.
The heading of this section gives no end date for the Wilding Issues. This because in 1997 Decimal Value Wildings were produced in a Prestige Booklet, followed by more in 2002 as part of the issues produced to commemorate the Golden Jubilee and then more values in two Miniature sheets produced in 2002 and 3.
Therefore the series cannot be closed, as it is possible that Royal Mail will produce further issues at some point.
The Wilding head was aslo used in early issues of the Regional Stamps.
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