This is a special cover from Benham,
featuring the Millennium Timekeeper miniature sheet SG MS2123. Uniquely the
cover carries two postmarks, one for 31st December 1999 and the other
for 1st January 2000. This is the first time that Royal Mail has
ever allowed this, making the cover a very special philatelic collectible. So,
far from being an ordinary First Day Cover it is a cover for the first day of
the new millennium. Appropriately the postmarks are for Greenwich, the home of
the Prime Meridian. All the covers issued are numbered from a Limited Edition
of 10000 and this is No. 1699. The cover is also larger than most (240mm x
192mm) meaning my P+P for sending it to you has to be Large Letter post.