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Royal Observatory Greenwich – postcard collection
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Estimated date
 1975–1983
Publisher
 Post Office
Publisher's title
 Greenwich Meridian (The Observatory)
Nominal size
 6.0 x 4.0 inches
Publisher/printer ref.
 PHQ 77(c) 6/84
Website ref.
 PC0820

© Post Office. In 1984, the Post office issued a set of four stamps (16p, 20½p. 28p & 31p) to celebrate the so-called centenary of the adoption of the Greenwich Meridian as the Prime Meridian of the World. As was the norm at the time, the Post Office also issued a set of postcards depicting the four stamps, of which this is one.
 

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