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Because of the ever increasing values and the size of the denominations set on the value tablet, the powers that be at the Royal Mail decided that a new set of value tablets would be drawn up. Jeffrey Matthew’s was chosen to design a sleeker set of numerals. Each value in turn was reprinted with this new (narrower) more modern style, they were also repositioned onto a uniformed grid in the bottom left hand corner. The change started to take place on 30th March 1983 and carried on for a period of about 5 years. 1988 saw the change over completed right through the whole of the machin range. Bolder colours At around about the same time the colours were also improved upon,they changed from the graduated colours to the new Jeffrey Mathews colour palate. |
