Description: This thought-provoking 44p British postage stamp was issued by the Royal Mail as part of their dynamic millennium countdown collection. Designed around the theme of historic and modern agriculture, the square stamp features a striking, close-up photograph captured by photographer Ronald Traeger. The image centers entirely on a pair of weathered hands carefully peeling a large potato with a traditional small paring knife, allowing a thick ribbon of skin to curl away from the pale, raw vegetable flesh. A clean white silhouette of Queen Elizabeth II marks the upper-left corner, while vertical white lettering along the right border logs the issuance details as "Millennium 1999/14 / Food from afar / T Traeger" right next to the large "44" denomination.
Circa: 1999
Condition: MNH
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