Friday/ stamps from Great Britain 🇬🇧

My ‘South Africa 1961-1995’ stamp collection is nearly complete.
Another ‘acquisition’ from a seller from Great Britain made it into my mailbox today, with these stamps on the outside envelope.

Astronomy
Issued 2002, Sept. 24. Printed as a minisheet w. two phosphor bands, perf. 14 ½ x 14
MS2315 1613 (1st) multi-colored, Planetary nebula in Aquila, Seyfert 2 galaxy in Pegasus, Planetary Nebula in Norma, Seyfert 2 galaxy in Circinus
[Source: Stanley Gibbons Collect British Stamps 2016]
350th Anniversary of the Royal Society
From a set of 10 stamps
Issued 2010, Feb. 25. Printed w. “all-over” phosphor, perf. 14 ½
3029 2224 (1st) multi-colored, Edward Jenner (pioneer of smallpox vaccination)
3032 2227 (1st) multi-colored, Joseph Lister (antiseptic surgery)
3034 2229 (1st) multi-colored, Dorothy Hodgkin (crystallography)
[Source: Stanley Gibbons Collect British Stamps 2016]
London 2010 Festival of Stamps (1st issue) and Centenary of Accession of King George V
Issued 2010, May 6. Printed w. “All-over” phosphor, perf. 14½
3068 2262 (1st) multi-colored, 1924 British Empire Exhibition 1½ d Brown Stamp
3068 2263 (1st) multi-colored, 1924 British Empire Exhibition 1 d Scarlet Stamp
[Source: Stanley Gibbons Collect British Stamps 2016]

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