Description
Unstitched Prestige Pane XWP1 from DX26
Issued 18th September 2000.
Designed by the Roundel Design Group.
From Prestige Booklet DX26 Treasury of Trees, pane number 4.
Contents of pane 4 x Wales 2nd class (Wales catalogue number is W83a) with one phosphor band on the right. There are also 4 x 1st class Millennium stamps (catalogue number 124d ) with two phosphor bands. This pane is on non-fluorescent coated paper. Walsall Security Printers Limited printed this pane. All of the perforations are 14.
Specialised catalogue pane number XWP1.
Concise (2019) catalogue number W83al valued at £9.00 for the normal pane.
Unmounted mint and in pristine condition.
Unstitched Prestige Pane XWP1 from DX26
UNSTITCHED PANES
GB QEII Unstitched Prestige Booklet Panes
We noticed, a few years ago, that “Unstitched Prestige Booklet Panes” were being offered for sale on the open market
The stitching holding a Prestige booklet together is cut with a sharp knife. This gives access to the various panes contained within the booklet complete with their interleaving. When a single pane is inspected the stitching holes are a few millimetres from the left-hand edge. Furthermore you will also find vertical roulettes each side of the pane text. The unstitched panes still have the roulettes, but with no stitching holes!
When producing First Day Covers, the Royal Mail Philatelic Bureau used Prestige panes from uncut sheets to prevent wastage. This was before they were assembled into booklet form. We presume other companies were also offered this option. Should unstitched panes have been issued to the general public in a mint condition?
We do not know this pane’s history.
PS Don’t be mis-led into buying prestige panes that have been detached from the first row of rouletting. We often see them advertised as normal panes.
INFORMATION SOURCES:
First of all, Royal Mail will handle your order. Therefore please see our Shop menu for postal options: Postage We only charge postage for the first item in most cases. Thus any further items purchased would not increase the final postal charges. Furthermore we do not charge you for envelopes and packaging.
Recorded Delivery or Registered Post is also available if required. If this option is taken loss or damage compensation can therefore be claimed.
We mention Stanley Gibbons catalogue numbers where it is possible. These numbers are either from the “Concise Stamp Catalogue” or from the “Specialised Stamp Catalogue Volume 4 Part 1”. We will try to mention any other numbering that we may use if not covered by the above. Sometimes particular stamps, Smilers sheets, booklets, miniature sheets, or cylinder blocks are not recognized anywhere. Hence, in this case, we would use our own expertise to describe and value that item.
In conclusion, all of our stamps are unmounted mint and in an excellent condition. We will mention any variation to this statement.
Please let us know if we have made a mistake with this description.
We are members of the “Great Britain Philatelic Society” (GBPS): http://www.gbps.org.uk
Unstitched Prestige Pane XWP1 from DX26
