Benham first day Cover with ‘Farmers’ commemorative set of 4 stamps issued 7 September 1999.

The set of stamps are:-

19p Upland landscape (strip farming)

26p Horse-drawn Rotary Seed Drill (mechanical Farming)

44p Man peeling Potato (food imports)

64p Aerial view of Combine Harvester (satellite agriculture)

Cover is postmarked :- Farmers, Mechanical Farming, Reading, 07.09.99. Pictorial farming tool in the centre.

Lovely silk picture on the cover of Shire horses pulling a plough in Cornwall.

Benham stamps guarantee and certification on the reverse of the cover.

Limited issue of only 2500 covers, few signed.

This cover has the genuine hand signed signature of Nathaniel Parker.

He is an English stage and screen actor best known for playing detective inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley in the BBC crime drama series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Lord Agravaine in the fourth series of Merlin.

Other films he has been in include the Bodyguard as Clive Healey, My Family as Uncle Richard, Far from the Madding Crowd as Gabriel Oak and many roles in the theatre.

Information card bordered in gold enclosed about Mechanical farming and brief biography sheet about Nathaniel Parker.