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16th July 2000 Isle of Man cover for the Centenary of the Gaiety Theatre with a Douglas FDI postmark, signed by Dame Diana Rigg, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (she played Maid Marian to Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood).

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22nd August 1989 Royal Mail Definitive cover signed by cricketer Geoff Boycott, playwright Tom Stoppard, cricket umpire Dickie Bird, mountaineer Chris Bonington and television legend Sir David Attenborough.

£25 per month over 5 monthsGDW02 £125

3rd September 1985 Benham small silk Arthurian Legend cover signed by writers Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010), Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) and playwright Tom Stoppard.


GDW04 £175


8th October 2009 Eminent Britons single stamp cover signed by writers

Ruth Rendell (1930-2015), P D James (1920-2014), Jilly Cooper, John Le

Carrè, athlete Sir Roger Bannister and racing driver Sir Jackie Stewart.

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GDW05 £100


14th May 1996 Evening Standard full set Football Heroes cover signed by Tommy Docherty, Mike

Summerbee, Vinnie Jones & Tony Book.

£62.50 per month over 2 months

GDW07 £125

22nd March 2011 Royal Mail single stamp WWF cover signed by 5 Knights - Tim Rice, John Major, Chris Bonington, Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) & David Attenborough.


6th August 1996 Royal Mail Women of Achievement full set cover signed by writers Margret Drabble and P D James (1920-2014), Paralympian Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson and ballerina Anya Linden Sainsbury.

£25 per month over 3 monthsGDW06 £756th August 1996 Women of Achievement Benham single stamp (Daphne du Maurier) signed by writers Lady Antonia Fraser, P D James (1920-2014), Marina Lewycka, Jilly Cooper & Ruth Rendell (1930-2015).

GDW09 £350£35 per month

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8th January 2008 Royal Mail single Stamp Ian Fleming Centenary cover signed by actor

Bernard Cribbins and three composers of scores to James Bond films - Sir George Martin 1926 - 2016 (Live & Let Die), Marvin Hamlisch

1944 - 2012 (The Spy Who Loved Me) and David Arnold (Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not

Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace).

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£50 per month over 3 monthsGDW14 £1506th August 1970 American Dwight D Eisenhower cover signed by ‘Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf Jr (1934 - 2012).



GDW13 £125

3rd November 2009 Royal Mail single stamp Christmas cover signed by film director Richard Lester, lyricist Sir Tim Rice, mountaineer Sir Chris

Bonington, athlete Sir Roger Bannister, and Master of the Queen’s Music between 2004 - 2016 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016).

GDW10 £3011th July 1986 Tuvalu World Cup cover signed by Kenny Dalglish (he features on the stamp).

£50 per month over 2 monthsGDW11 £10014th May 1996 Evening Standard full set Football Heroes cover signed by Roy Bentley, Tom Finney (1922 - 2014) & Charlie Crowe (1924 - 2010).

GDW12 £6021st May 2002 Royal

Mail World Cup miniature sheet cover signed by cartoonist & illustrator

Gerald Scarfe.



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GDW15 £8519th November 2001 London College of Music Centenary cover signed by composers Stephen Warbeck and Michael Tippett (1905 - 1908).


GDW19 £1250


16th October 1984 American Nation of Readers cover signed by writers Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014), Nina Bawden (1925-2012), Beryl Bainbridge (1932-2010), P D James (1920-2014), Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) and Harper Lee (1926-2016) (she was a reluctant signer, so difficult to get).

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£37.50 per month over 2 monthsGDW18 £75

10th September 1980 Philart Music cover signed by David Arnold, composer of film and television music, including 5 James Bond film scores. He has also drawn a few bars of music from ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’.


20th March 2012 Royal Mail Comics single stamp cover signed by Marcus Hamilton, one of the artists (since 1995) of the US comic strip character Dennis the Menace, who has also included a cartoon of the US Dennis (interesting Dennis the Menace fact - both the US & UK versions were published on the same date, 12th March 1951).


26th June 1970 United Nations 25th Anniversary cover signed by the American cartoonist Dick Locher, who worked on the Dick Tracy cartoons between 1957 - 1961 and later from 1983 to 2011 when her retired. He has also drawn a Dick Tracy cartoon.

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GDW23 £50

26th January 2010 Royal Mail Smilers single stamp cover signed by British film director and actor Bryan Forbes (1926-2013).

GDW24 £2014th May 1985 PPS full set Composers cover signed by British composer Richard Rodney Bennett (1936 - 2012).

GDW25 £60£30 per month over 2 months

28th April 1982 Benham single stamp Theatre cover signed by two

British playwrights, Alan Ayckbourn and Arnold

Wesker (1932-2016).


15th September 1988 United Nations Flag series cover signed by former German

Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (1918-2015).


15th February 2010 Royal Mail Britain Alone single stamp signed by Sir Roger Bannister and Sir Henry Cooper (1934-2011).

£25 per month over 3 monthsGDW22 £7513th April 1964 Israel first day cover signed by former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (2006-2009) and Tzipi Livni, his former Designated Acting Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs. Livni is widely considered to be the most powerful woman in Israel since Golda Meir.

GDW21 £753rd February 1998 Diana, Princess of Wales full set cover signed by Ronald Searle (1920-2011), artist, cartoonist and creator of both the St Trinian’s and Molesworth series. He has written ‘God knows why I should be asked to sign a Diana first day cover’. A difficult signature to find.

£25 per month over 3 months£20 per month

over 3 monthsGDW20 £606th May 1971 American 11c Air Mail cover signed by Mary Badham, who played Scout, in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. This role earned her an American Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress - at the age of 10!

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£50 per month over 6 monthsGDW29 £30012th October 1993 Royal Mail Sherlock Holmes cover signed by American comic artist Sheldon Moldoff (1920 - 2012). He was one of Batman creator Bob Kane’s early ‘ghost artists’ for Batman and has also added a small coloured Batman sketch to the cover.


8th January 2008 Royal Mail single stamp Centenary of Ian Fleming cover signed by Edward Fox, who played ‘M’ in the non-official James Bond film ‘Never Say Never Again’, Julian Glover who played the villain Aris Kristatos in ‘For Your Eyes Only’ and Charles Dance in the same film, as his henchman, Claus. A few years later Charles Dance played Ian Fleming himself on television.


GDW32 £200

8th January 2008 Royal Mail single stamp Centenary of Ian Fleming cover signed by American composer & conductor Bill Conti (he wrote the score to the James Bond film ‘For Your Eyes Only’), and actors Jonathan Pryce (played villain Elliot Carver in ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’), Fiona Fullerton (she played KGB spy Pola Ivanova in ‘A View to a Kill’), Burt Kwouk (1930 - 2016. He appeared in ‘Goldfinger’ and ‘You Only Live Twice’) and Edward Fox, who played ‘M’ in the non-official James Bond film ‘Never Say Never Again’.

£25 per month over 3 monthsGDW31 £7513th May 2014 Royal Mail Great British Film single stamp cover, signed by Annette Crosbie and Richard Wilson, the stars of TV’s ‘One Foot in the Grave’.


23rd April 1991 Royal Mail full set Europe in Space cover signed by astronomer Dr. Patrick Moore (1923-2012) and science-fiction writer Brian Aldiss.


3rd February Royal Mail Diana, Princess of Wales full set cover signed by Desmond Tutu and Grayson Perry.

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GDW39 £500


3rd May 1940 American Stephen Foster (American 19th Century song writer) signed by another famous song writer, Cole Porter (1891-1964).

GDW38 £60 £20 per month over 3 months

8th January 1993 USA Elvis Presley cover signed by singer Donny Osmond.


15th January 2002 Royal Mail Just So Stories full set cover signed by writers Mary Wesley (1912-2002), Beryl Bainbridge (1932-2010) and Winston Graham (1908-2003).


9th January 2007 The Beatles full set stamp cover with Abbey Road postmark signed by Pete Best (original Beatles drummer), Hunter Davies (Beatles official biographer), Richard Lester (director of Beatles films ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ and ‘Help!’), Sir Peter Blake, who designed the album cover for the Sgt. Pepper album and the composer Karl Heinz Stockhausen, who appears in Peter Blake’s collage on the Sgt Pepper cover!


6th April 2017 Royal Mail single stamp Racehorse Legends cover signed by trainers Sir Mark Prescott and John Dunlop and former jockeys Willie Carson & Lester Piggott. Plus racecard signed by Prescott.


GDW34 £50

8th January 2008 Royal Mail single stamp Centenary of Ian Fleming cover signed by lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman. They are three times Oscar winners for The Best Original Song and wrote the lyrics to the theme song for the non-official James Bond film ‘Never Say Never Again’.


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15th February 1965 United States Physical Fitness cover signed by athletes Mary Rand and Zola Budd. Plus Mary Rand signed postcard.


9th April 19666 American cover signed by explorers Wally Herbert (1934 - 2007), Ranulph Fiennes & John Blashford-Snell.

£50 per month over 5 monthsGDW42 £2507th May 1993 United Nations cover signed by Vaclav Havel (1936-2011), Desmond Tutu & Lech Walesa.


22nd August 1989 Royal Mail Definitive cover signed by former cricketers Ted Dexter & Geoff Boycott, and former jockey Lester Piggott.

GDW41 £100


8th October 1995 Benham small silk British Film Year cover signed by lyricist Herbert Kretzmer, who wrote the lyrics to Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren’s song ‘Goodness Gracious Me’. He also wrote the English lyrics for the musical Les Miserables.


23rd January 1967 United Nations cover signed by former South African President F W De Klerk.

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23rd October 1984 Nevis cricket cover signed by Len Hutton (1916-1990) and Geoff Boycott (Len Hutton features on the stamps).


28th April 1967 United Nations cover signed by Doctor Christiaan Barnard (1922- 2001).


9th July 1996 Royal Mail Olympic cover signed by

Sir Clive Woodward, who coached the England

Rugby Union team to World Cup victory in 2003.


2nd August 1978 Post Office Cycling cover signed by cyclist Lizzie Armitstead.


GDW49 £75

22nd November 1968 American 20c air mail stamp cover signed by horror actor Robert Englund.


22nd July 1964 Nevada Statehood Centenary cover signed by actor Robert Redford.


GDW47 £50

22nd June 1943 United States of American

honouring the oppressed nation of Poland cover,

signed by Lech Walesa. Cover also has a US Censorship cachet.

£20 per month over 5 monthsGDW46 £10015th March 1976 Centenary of South African Cricket cover signed by Sir Don Bradman (1908-2001).


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GDW59 £125

12th April 1994 Pictorial Postcards cover signed by Cabinet Ministers Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt,

and Prime Minister Theresa May.


13th May 1981 Post Office Butterflies cover, signed by actresses Virginia McKenna and Brigitte Bardot.

£50 per month over 2 monthsGDW57 £10014th May 1996 Evening Standard full set Football Heroes cover signed by former players Sammy Lee, Stuart Pearson, Albert Stubbins (1919-2002) and Norman Hunter.


28th February 1978 Jersey Golf cover signed by German golfer Bernhard Langer.


4th November 2008 Irish first day over commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster, and signed by Harry Gregg, former Northern Ireland goalkeeper and survivor of the crash.


£50 per month over 2 monthsGDW54 £1002nd August 1978 Cycling PHQ card with gutter pair stamps & Philatelic Bureau postmark on the reverse, signed by cyclists Eddie Merckx and Sir Chris Hoy.

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16th March 1993 Royal Mail Orchids cover signed by clarinettist Acker Bilk (1929 - 2014).

£25 per month over 5 months GDW63 £1253rd September 1975 Mercury Inter Parliamentary Union cover signed by politicians Alan Johnson, Dawn Butler, Ed Miliband and Tony Blair.

£50 per month over 6 monthsGDW64 £3002nd June 1978 Abbey American Independence cover signed by actors Paul Newman (1925-2008) and Jane Russell (1921-2011).


9th July 1980 Post Office Famous People cover signed by the actress Glenn Close.


9th May 2013 Royal Mail single stamp Football Heroes cover signed by former players Kevin Moran, David Sadler, Gary

Lineker and former manager Tommy Docherty.

£50 per month over 2 monthsGDW60 £1002nd February 2012 single stamp House of Windsor cover signed by singer Marty Wilde, actress Judi Dench and Peter Maxwell Davies, who was appointed Master of the Queen’s Music in 2004, a post he held until his death in 2016.

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6th June 1995 Royal Mail Science Fiction cover signed by astronomer Patrick Moore, science fiction writer Brian Aldiss and actress Bonne Langford, who played Doctor Who companion Mel Bush, opposite Doctors 6 (Colin Baker) and 7 (Sylvester McCoy).

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9th September 1997 Mercury full set Enid Blyton Centenary cover signed by children’s author Michael Bond (1926 - 2017). Plus signed colour postcard.


14th March 2017 Royal Mail single stamp David Bowie cover signed by actor Griff Rhys-Jones.

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