GB 2000 A Treasury of Trees (Prestige Booklet)
From Stamps of the World
- Date of Issue: 18th September, 2000
- Booklet designed by: Roundel.
- Stamps designed by: The Post Office.
- Printed by: Walsall Security Printers.
- Print process: gravure
- Perforations: 14.15 x 14.4
- Two phosphor bands (2nd class, single near-central band)
- Shiny white gum
Notes: all values in the booklet panes were also issued in sheets, but in every case on a different date and by a different printer
- For Details of Original Sheet Issues of the Same Design Click on: GB 2000 Millennium Projects- Tree and Leaf
- Also one stamp from the following set: GB 2000 Millennium Projects - Stone and Soil
Prestige Booklet. A Treasury of Trees
Prestige Booklet Panes
Pane of 65p x 2 (1 x 2) ~ Scots pine forest at Doire Dach (Forest for Scotland programme)
Pane of 45p x 4 (2 x 2) ~ sycamore tree seeds (Millennium Seed Bank, Wakehurst Place, Ardingly, West Sussex)
Pane of 65p x 2 (1 x 1) ~ bluebell wood (Changing Places programme of Groundworks)
Pane (3 x 3, 8 stamps around central label) of 1st Millennium Machin (portrait of HM The Queen) x 4 and 2nd leek sculpture by D Petersen (Wales) x 4
Pane of 2nd x 4 (2 x 2) ~ base of yew tree (Yews for the Millennium project)
