I believe the market today has fewer buyers, but ones who purchase much more frequently and for higher value stamps.
The engraving was used on the high value stamps 2/6, 5/-, 10/- and £1.
The First Day covers, especially commemoratives with full sets affixed, are popular though the older issues are harder to find because less than a million of the high value stamps were printed in the early years (1929 1940s) for several issues, a far lower number than the 20-plus millions printed for most of the low values during the same period.
While most staff (458) received less than £10,000 to move, the NAO identified a number who were given more because they "owned high-value properties incurring significantly higher stamp duty, estate agent's fees and related costs".
The wide range in payments, between less than £10,000 and £150,000, was "owing largely to a small number of staff who owned high-value properties incurring significantly higher stamp duty, estate agent's fees and related costs compared to the average".
There were "numerous ways" of doing this, he added, highlighting measures already taken by the coalition to raise capital gains tax and stamp duty on high-value homes.
Mr Osborne announced that: SDLT will be levied at a rate of 15% when homes are sold in a "corporate envelope", in other words if the sale is of a company that owns the home, rather than the direct sale of the home itself, which used to be a popular way of avoiding stamp duty on high-value homes.
The white-eyed river martin is one of only two birds endemic to Thailand, and the country's government has noted this through the issues of a stamp and a high-value commemorative coin.
The BBC said that the 11 cases reflected the higher stamp duty and other costs involved in relocating staff who owned high-value properties in the South East, according to the PAC report.
