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- ↑ "News of the World: Top stamp award for David Gentleman" in Gibbons Stamp Monthly , Vol. 53, No. 4, September 1979, p. 59.
- ↑ "Stuart Rose" in The Times , 15 September 1993, p. 19.
- ↑ In The Spotlight Larry Rosenblum and David Alderfer interview Stamp Designer Jeffery Matthews, MBE, FCSD, FRSA. Archived 2013-08-10 at the Wayback Machine Great Britain Collectors Club, 15 November 2009. Retrieved 15 April 2014. Archived here.