Your favourite stamps

Today, we can reveal the results of your favourite stamps and stamps sets as voted by readers of the Royal Mail Philatelic Bulletin in their 2018 Favourite Stamp Poll.

The Bulletin was first published in September 1963, shortly after the formation of the Philatelic Bureau on 1 May. The poll, which last year celebrated its 32^nd year, is a long-established Bulletin tradition open to all, whether or not they are a Bulletin subscriber.

Readers were asked to vote on which stamps impressed them most to be in with a chance of winning the Royal Mail Yearpack 2018.

The winners

Stamps

• 1^st - Large Blue Butterfly First Class - Issued 17 April
• 2^nd - Barn Owl, First Class – issued 11 May
• 3^rd - Captain James Cook. First Class – issued 16 August
• 4^th - We are making a new world - £1.55 – issued 13 September
• 5^th - Flypast, First Class – issued 20 March

Stamp sets

• 1^st - Owls – issued 11 May
• 2^nd - RAF Centenary – Issued 20 March
• 3^rd -  Reintroduced species - Issued 17 April
• 4^th - Hampton Court Palace – issued 31 July
• 5^th - Captain Cook and the Endeavour voyage – issued 16 August

Congratulations to Bulletin reader, Margaret A Wright of Hutton, Driffield, who is the winner of the Favourite Stamp Poll prize draw and will receive the Royal Mail Yearpack 2018.

The Yearpack, which houses all the year’s stamps, can be purchased by clicking here.