( CNN ) -- After the gloom of December 's postal strikes , Britain 's Royal Mail has started the new year in the right tune with the launch of 10 stamps which feature iconic album covers . And who better than guitar shaman Jimmy Page to give it the official stamp of approval ? The Led Zeppelin guitarist launched the new set of stamps in London which went on sale Thursday . The special New Year stamps feature classic album sleeves from the last four decades . One of the 10 selected albums was Led Zeppelin 's 32 million-selling album , `` IV , '' which Page helped design . It shows a painting of an unknown faggot-bearing man which is said to have been found by Robert Plant in a Reading junk shop . It is not known who the painter was . `` Almost 40 years after the album came out , nobody knows the old man who featured on the cover , nor the artist who painted him , '' said Page in a media statement released by Royal Mail . `` That sort of sums up what we wanted to achieve with the album cover , which has remained both anonymous and enigmatic at the same time , '' he added . It was after extensive research into lists and polls and trawling through thousands of album covers that the final list of 10 was agreed upon , the Royal Mail said . They added that key factors in choosing the covers were the art and album design and not necessarily the music . `` For decades , the album sleeve has been the canvas for some of the most imaginative graphic artists in the world , and this issue celebrates this unique art form and some of its greatest examples , '' said Juliette Edgar , Head of Special Stamps at Royal Mail in the statement . Other chosen album covers include The Rolling Stones ' 1969 album `` Let It Bleed , '' which features a cake on the cover baked by a then unknown Delia Smith , Pennie Smith 's photography for The Clash 's `` London Calling '' and a bent chrome pipe on the cover of Mike Oldfield 's `` Tubular Bells . ''
Led Zeppelin 's Jimmy Page launches 10 iconic album covers stamps for the Royal Mail . One of the 10 selected albums was Led Zeppelin 's `` IV '' which Page helped design . Final list of 10 emerged after trawling through thousands of album covers .