This stamp issue commemorates the Queen’s Birthday 2015. Australia Post has been issuing a stamp to commemorate the Queen’s birthday since 1980.
Designer
Simone Sakinofsky, Australia Post Design Studio
Products released in this issue
- Stamp (1 x 70c, 1 x $2.75)
- Minisheet
- Cover (blank pictorial, gummed and minisheet)
- Stamp pack
- Maxicard
- Prestige booklet
- Sheetlet of 5
- Chequebook of 20 x 5
- Gutter strips
Technical specifications
- Issue date
- 7 April 2015
- Issue withdrawal date
- 31 October 2015
- Denominations
- 1 x 70c, 1 x $2.75
- Stamp design
- Simone Sakinofsky, Australia Post Design Studio
- Product design
- Simone Sakinofsky, Australia Post Design Studio
- Paper - gummed
- Tullis Russell
- Printer
- RA Print
- Paper self-adhesive
- B100
- Printing process
- Lithography
- Stamp size
- 26mm x 37.5mm
- Minisheet size
- 105mm x 70mm
- Perforations
- 14.60 x 13.86
- Sheet layout
- Module of 50
- FDI postmark
- Royal Park, SA 5014
- FDI withdrawal date
- 6 May 2015
The stamp shows Her Majesty on the occasion of her visit to the Ebony Horse Club and Community Riding Centre in Brixton in October, 2013. The Queen visited at the invitation of the Duchess of Cornwall, the club’s President.
The Ebony Horse Club gives young people in the deprived inner city area opportunities to learn about riding and care for horses. The Queen and Duchess met with young riders and volunteers and watched a display of precision riding.
The stamp depicts the Queen at Windsor Castle in April 2013, when Her Majesty met Irish President Michael D Higgins. This historic occasion was the first-ever state visit to Britain by Ireland’s head of state.
Higgins and his wife, Sabina, met the monarch at Windsor Castle three years after the Queen's visit to Dublin heralded the start of a new chapter in the relationship between the two countries. The streets of Windsor were decked out in union flags and Irish tricolours on Tuesday morning ahead of the visit. After travelling to the Berkshire town from London with the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, the president and his wife were met by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.
After the guests were honoured with two gun salutes, the Queen and president entered the castle in the Australian state coach, before Higgins and Prince Philip inspected troops of the Queen's Company Grenadier Guards.
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