Britain's most spectacular commemoratives, No30: 2006 Lest We Forget 1st class
This was the first of a series of three ‘poppy’ designs commemorating events in World War I (in this case the Battle of the Somme), initially available only within a miniature sheet but later re-released in counter sheets.
Seven beautiful tall red poppies seem to weave their way plaintively into the sky, and then we notice that their stems are made of barbed wire, a moving metaphor which requires no further explanation.
Design: Hat-Trick Design.
Printing: gravure by De La Rue.
