The sheet contains nine Wilding Definitive stamps issued between 1953-9 in values comparable to their original postal rates, and was designed by Rose Design, with type rendering by Mike Prately. The stamps were printed in gravure on '50'  (upright) watermarked paper by De La Rue Security Print, UK.  The new 20p stamp has one phosphor band as this is the new 2nd class inland rate. 

The stamps featured on this miniature sheet were originally issued in the following order: 2nd November 1953: Is6d, 4d; 18th January 1954: 3d, 6d and 7d; 8th February 1954: 9d, 10d and 11d; 9th February 1959: 4 1/2d. 

The Wilding Definitives Collection I   was issued on December 5, 2002 and included the 1 1/2d and 2 1/2d stamps issued exactly 50 years earlier and the first in the world to feature Her Majesty The Queen. The nine-stamp sheetfeatured the following nine stamps (postally valid values in brackets): 11/2d (1st ); 1/2d (1p); 1d (2p); 2d (5p); 21/2d (2nd); 5d (33p); 8d (37p); 1s (45p); 1s3d (50p).

A simultaneity issued presentation pack contains a concise history of the Wilding definitives and their development together with mini-biographies of the five designers involved. All 18 stamps in The Wilding Definitive Collections are printed on watermarked paper bearing the national floral emblems of the rose, thistle, shamrock and daffodil. The image is also featured on the top row of the miniature sheet. Watermarked paper was one of the original security devices used on stamps and was superceded by coated paper with phosphor bars in 1967.