DY27

Harry Potter

Prestige Stamp Book issued on 4 December 2018

Facts and Figures

The 2018 Harry Potter Prestige Stamp Book

general

Stanley Gibbons number: DY27

MBPC number: DB5(79)

Issue date: 4 December 2018

Issue price: £15.50

Current selling price: £18.20*

Stamp printer: Cartor – Lithography

Number of stamp panes: Five

Barcode: 5 014721 148076

Limited edition issued: Yes

*Still on sale at Royal Mail. However, the price has increased since issue, due to price increases on 1st and 2nd class stamps.

Definitive stamps

Pane 3 contains the following definitive stamps

1p (Dark maroon) MPIL / M18L
20p (Light green) MPIL / M18L
50p (Slate grey) MPIL / M18L
£1.25 (Holly green) MPIL / M18L

KNown errors

Six errors are currently known

(1) – Pane 3 omitted

(2) – Pane 5 omitted

(3) – Back cover duplicated

(4) – Pane 2 omitted

(5) – Pane 2 duplicated

(6) – Pane 4 duplicated and Pane 5 omitted

If you know of any other errors, please contact us

Stamp Panes

This book has five panes. The stamps on panes 4 and 5 are self-adhesive.
Please note that panes 3, 4 and 5 are inverted within this Prestige Stamp Book.

: Pane 1 / DP540

: Pane 2 / DP541

: Pane 3 / DP542

: Pane 4 / DP543

: Pane 5 / DP544

Book Layout

Use the layout below to check that your stamp book is correctly laid out.
If not you have an error.
This book can be read from front to back and vice-versa, with two front covers. So all pages from Leaf 4 are rotated by 180 degrees, resulting in the pages appearing inverted. Please note that this is not an error.

Front Cover

Inside Front Cover

Pane 1

Pane 1 Reverse

Leaf 1 Front

Leaf 1 Back

Leaf 2 Front

Leaf 2 Back

Pane 2

Pane 2 Reverse

Leaf 3 Front

Leaf 3 Back

Leaf 4 Front

Leaf 4 Back

Pane 3 Reverse

Pane 3

Leaf 5 Front

Leaf 5 Back

Pane 4 Reverse

Pane 4

Pane 5

Pane 5 Reverse

Inside Back Cover

Outside Back Cover

Errors

Erros in Prestige Stamp Books are split into two categories, Book Errors or Pane Errors. Where possible we have provided a photo of the error and a guide price. The guide price is gained by either a current for sale price or a last known sale price.