Stamp Experts? Year? Machin?

[sakic92710]

Any stamp experts with information on this block?  I find nothing in an image search.  Any assistance is much appreciated.

[itsjustasprain]

Have you tried the Stamps Community Group? 

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Stamps/ct-p/1120

[dirk12955]

Do a search for "MNH Machin"

[dirk12955]

I don't have a catalog for Great Britain.    

Apparently a commemorative series that started in 1967.    I see 100s of listings 

for them on ebay.   

[sakic92710]

I tried there & have 3 less replies that I got in the seller group; which means 0.   lol

[hartungcards]

It's Queen Elizabeth.  I think the guy in the lower right corner is the founder of the Lions Club.

[lacemaker3]

@sakic92710,

You seem to have part of a Machin Prestige booklet pane. Here's a picture of a complete one from a listing on eBay UK (it's one of an awful lot of variations in this listing). The variation is called "DX36 Brunel SG 1668r". I guess from the handwritten notes that it might be from 2006.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294258277164

Here's another listing, for just this pane. There's a bit more information available here, but I thought the handwritten notes in the picture above might be useful.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203576810771

Description:

2006 Great Britain QEII Prestige Stamp Book Pane

From SG: DX36

ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL

: Pane 1668R :

1st x4, 35p x2 & 40p x2 - Saltash Bridge pane

The date of issue 23rd February 2006.

ETA:  apparently, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a British engineer who designed the Saltash bridge that is shown. I guess maybe the center image in the block is his portrait. He died in 1859, the same year the Royal Albert Bridge was opened in Saltash, Cornwall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel

There are more of these book panes in this search:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=machin+DX36+Brunel+SG+1668r

[sakic92710]

Thank you very much!

[lacemaker3]

You're welcome.