Going Postal props

The Penny Patrician was one of the sheets printed for use as props in the Going Postal film. Whilst the Emporium clearly had a hand in their production, the are not officially recognised as a Discworld stamp. This distinction may rest on the contract regarding availability to collectors more than anything else. They are much larger sheets (180 stamps), and produced by some form of wet printing process as evidenced by the streaky finish that I have seen on other sheets in this series. The actual stamps are not the same size as the regular Penny Patricians and have a rather rough perforation of 10.5/2cm. Despite this, if only for the sake of completeness, collectors ought to consider adding one of these. The stamp uses the original artwork, but looks like that which appeared as the Imperforate Patrician, as Vetinari has a modicum of grey hair, but less than the Eminence Gris. There were some imperforate sheets too, which were used to show the very first sheets being printed. This was preceded by a test print of the very first stamp from the first engraved plate. It had but a single stamp centred on a sheet of paper. I wonder if any props of these will ever turn up.

 
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Bernard and Terry in 2014 with the prop sheets
.                                    reprising their roles as props once more


The full sheet
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