Post Office: British postage stamps (including imprinted stationery) - creation to issue
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- Held at: GB 813 The Royal Mail Archive, Calthorpe House
- Finding Number: POST 150 Series
- Date: 1840-present
- Level: Series
- Extent: 2496 items
- Creator Name: GPO
- Administrative or Biographical History: In 1840 when the first adhesive postage stamps and printed postal stationery were issued responsibility for their production lay with the Stamps & Taxes Office, but the supply of paper was down to the Excise Office. This continued (with these two offices merging to become the Inland Revenue in 1849) until 1 April 1914 when responsibility for design, production and distribution of stamps was transferred to the Post Office, where it remains.
- Format: Record series
- Description: Artwork (adopted and unadopted), dies, essays, trials and die proofs, molettes and plates, plate proofs and registration sheets and issued stamps for all adhesive postage stamp issues and postal stationery, both proposed and issued. This includes all design and production stages from the first ideas to the final product and also trials for paper, ink, phosphor, perforation etc.
- Terms:Collection: The Royal Mail Archive
- Terms:Series: POST 150 | Post Office: British Postage Stamps (including Imprinted Stationery) - Creation to Issue
- Terms:Name: Edward VII | 1841 - 1910 | King of Great Britain and Ireland
- Terms:Name: Edward VIII | 1894 - 1972 | King of Great Britain and Ireland
- Terms:Name: Elizabeth II | born 1926 | Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Terms:Name: George V | 1865 - 1936 | King of Great Britain and Ireland
- Terms:Name: George VI | 1895 - 1952 | King of Great Britain and Ireland
- Terms:Name: Victoria | 1837 - 1901 | Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
- Terms:Subject: Art and design
- Terms:Subject: Commemorative stamps (Special stamps)
- Terms:Subject: Definitive stamps
- Terms:Subject: Philately
- Terms:Subject: Postage stamps
- Language: English
- System of Arrangement: Chronological
- Legal Status: Public Record
- Access Status: Open
- Access Conditions: By appointment with the Curator of Philately, under one to one supervision
- Publication Notes: Farrugia, Jean 'The Inland Revenue: Printer and Distributor of Stamps' British Philatelic Bulletin Volume 23 pp 254-6; Volume 24 pp 10-13 (1986)
- Rules: Compiled in compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UK Archival Thesaurus 2004; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; and PROCAT rules, 2000.
- For more information contact: The Postal Museum
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