SECURITY printer De La Rue has expressed its delight at being chosen to print the special commemorative stamps to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
The five Royal Issue stamps will be issued on February 6 exactly 50 years after the Queen's accession to the throne.
Chris Crutchley, general manager at De La Rue Global Services in Coates Lane, High Wycombe, said: "We are delighted to have been awarded the contract by the Royal Mail, carrying on a long association this site has had with the Royal Mail and Royal events."
The first Royal stamps were printed on the site, then Harrisons, in 1911 and the Queen visited the factory in 1952 to see coronation stamps being printed.
The informal and formal portraits featured on the Golden Jubilee issue are from each decade of the Queen's reign. They were captured by some of the world's top photographers including Cecil Beaton and Lord Snowdon.
The issue also gives people a rare opportunity to buy stamps without the standard feature for which they are best known the silhouette of the Queen's head known as the Machin and which appears on all Royal Mail stamps.
Because Golden Jubilee is defined as a Royal Issue one which features the Queen no silhouette is required.
It is also the first time since 1967 that stamps have been printed on watermarked paper, one of the original security devices used on stamps and used early in the Queen's reign.
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