Designed by Andrew Robinson and EJC Design, this wonderful first day cover features the complete set of stamps cancelled with a first day of issue special postmark. The story of the issue is presented on a filler card inside, and is told by issue writer Robert Stimpson of the Isle of Man Victorian Society and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Each of the stamps featured in this collection focuses on Frank Gill's remarkable career.
- 57p - Sir Frank Gill, supervised the design of the Dublin Exchange, 1897
- 90p – Sir Frank Gill, Telephone Exchange Apparatus Room, 1909. Sir Frank controlled 57 other exchanges throughout the UK.
- £1.10 – Sir Frank Gill, instrumental in the formation of and setting the framework of the BBC, 1922.
- £1.50 – Sir Frank Gill, organised the first Transatlantic radio telephone call from his London office and AT&T in New York to London, 1923.
- £1.52 – Sir Frank Gill, Vice President Spanish Telephone Company and awarded the Order of Isabel the Catholic by King Alfonso XIII of Spain, 1926.
- £1.85 – Sir Frank Gill, Knighted for services rendered in the development of the telephone industry and international telephony, 1941.
