Stamps of Approval...

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You don't have to be a Stamp collector

to be interested in stamps;

particularly, ones as beautiful as those below (my favourites)...

just take a look at the

* Royal Mail's new set of stamps

featuring classics of British design - pieces as iconic as the Mini,

Penguin Books and Routemaster buses...

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Famous for Battersea Power Station and Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral,
Giles Gilbert Scott followed architectural cues in his submission
to the GPO's competition to design a telephone kiosk.
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.The first Mini rolled off production lines 50 years ago.
Sir Alec Issigonis's revolutionary car became an icon of the 60s

and remains one of the most striking and

familiar pieces of British design...
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In the world of publishing, cover designs have rarely been so immediately iconic
as Allen Lane's Penguin classics series,
designed by Edward Young, perfected by Jan Tschichold
and featuring Eric Gill's immortal Gill Sans typeface
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The K2 was an instant design classic
Increasingly rare in the 21st century, London Transport's Routemaster bus
still symbolises London across the world...
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I don't know about you,
but I adore the old mini and double decker buses,
and, unlike most people
I know, I'm not at all keen on the newer versions of either...

*The Design Classics series was issued yesterday
and will be on sale for a year.
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By the way,
thanks a million for all your help on my last post
- I'm not quite as dumb as I might appear.
Asking for your help, was my way of solliciting more info. plus your
opinions on the subject
- kinda a little "tongue in cheek" (typically British..?),
I guess...