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THE MACHIN HEAD

 

Since 40 years, these iconic Great Britain's stamps have been around. Thousands of issues and booklets were produced. The machin head stamps were named after Arnold Machin, the artist behind them.

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Machinations by James Dignan, 2001. Collage of 940 machin stamps.

The Connoisseur Catalogue of Machin Stamps Online 

The Connoisseur catalogue online.

The 11th edition will soon be available online.
Their web site is up and running and you can see some preview in pdf format.

Why an online edition? According to the publishers:

"Since the publication of the 10th Edition of the Connoisseur Catalogue and it's subsequent supplement a huge amount has happened in the Machin world. The rate of development continues unabated, making it impossible for a Machin catalogue to be produced that is not out of date as soon as it is published. Connoisseur Publications have decided to embrace technology as a means to counteract this problem, which has been the main cause in the delay of publication of an 11th edition.

Although several sections of a new edition have been worked on and completed, by the time that subsequent
sections have been finished the earlier sections need further revision, a never-ending task, not
dissimilar to painting the Forth Road Bridge!

Now, by utilising the internet, the Connoisseur Catalogue will be published in chapters as soon as they
are completed, making them instantly available online. It is also the intention to update the catalogue
on a much more frequent basis, a godsend to collectors in this rapidly moving field. Illustrations will also
be in colour, a significant upgrade to the black and white images in previous print editions."

The Connoisseur catalogue online.

Bond. James Bond 

January 8th 2008

The Royal mail has just issued a new Prestige Booklet celebrating the centenary of spy fiction author, Ian Fleming's birth.

The booklet will include: 4 stamp panes feature the James Bond stamps, 2 Union Jack and 2 White Ensign stamps which celebrate Fleming and Bond's wartime service in the Royal Navy Intelligence and a mixed Machin pane.

MACHIN SERIES 

:See the list of machin stamps.

The Machin series of postage stamps is the main definitive stamp series in the United Kingdom, used since 5 June 1967. It is the second series to figure the image of Elizabeth II, replacing the Wilding series.

Designed by Arnold Machin, they consist simply of the sculpted profile of the Queen and a denomination, and are almost always in a single colour.

After four decades of service, the series has encompassed almost all changes and innovations in British stamp printing. This has been encouraging an abundant specialised philatelic collectors' market and associated literature.

While Arnold Machin's effigy of the Queen, created in 1964 for British coins was replaced in 1984 by an older-looking effigy by Raphael Maklouf, the design of the Machin stamps was never updated and the last proposals to these ends were rejected by the Queen herself.

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UK Prestige booklets 

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MACHIN STAMPS 40th BIRTHDAY 

Great Britain iconic definitive stamps are celebrating their 40th birthday! The Royal mail has issued among other things: booklet, souvenir sheet, stamps, FDC's and book.
All these are available at ROYAL MAIL WEB SITE

MachinMania Blog 

Must read blog for machin definitive stamps collectors. Regular posting, so keep it in your favorite, or suscribe to his RSS feed.

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A TIMELESS CLASSIC: The evolution of machin's icon 

This book marks the 40th anniversary of the first stamp issued with the now classic image of Queen Elizabeth II created by Arnold Machin. An icon of monarchy and of Britain the image has been reproduced more than 200 billion times. Here Douglas N Muir, Curator of Philately at the BPMA, traces the evolution of the design from work on coins. Muir describes the revolution in British stamp design in the 1960s of which the Machin design was the culmination. This important study is based on a new research and a wealth of illustrations never seen before.

A TIMELESS CLASSIC is available on ebay

QEII Specialised Definitives Catalogue 

I am not a machin specialist, nor a machin collector.
My father is. He just bought this amazing specialised catalogue, so I got to take a peek...

It is amazing. Comes in 2 volumes, full color, with thousands of pictures.
It is probably one of the best on the market (short of Deegam I suppose). Published by the Machin collectors club.

Warning...reading this book may get you addicted to machin collecting.

The catalogue is available directly from

The Machin Collectors Club, for 39.95 GBP + post and packing.

The Complete Deegam Machin Handbook 

Should be known as the machin bible:



Also available on CD's directly on The Deegam webpage.. PLus you can also download the latest updates.

MACHIN STAMPS on ebay auctions 

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