Great Britain Philatelic Society

Harvey

In a recently purchased mixed lot of control pieces, the vertical strip of three 1½d 1935 Silver Jubilee stamps shown here was included, from cylinder 7 stop. It is the second such item I have seen in the past year with this type of perforation, which has not previously been reported. The other sigh...

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Thanks, Mike.
I thought it was a recent item, but couldn't put my figure on the exact place!
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Somewhere I have read an article on the 'Compulsory Registration of Letters' because they have been marked for registration then posted in a letter box, or they contain coin, or notes. However, having searched the GB Journal for the last 30 minutes I have found nothing! Can anyone tell me where it m...

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Ron, If you go to http://home.comcast.net/~dr_paulr
you may well find the answer to many of your booklet queries.
Our esteemed Newsletter Editor (the new one!) is as dedicated as you on the booklet front.

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All offices would have received their supply of stamps 7 days prior to the date of issue, and most sorting offices in those days worked on a 24 hour basis.

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WHOOPS!!
Forgot to say: the cover my friend is referring to is dated Aug 1843, it is a 1d pink envelope cancelled with 12 in cross, and bears the receiver's mark "TP/St Mary at Hill" in red across the front.

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I've received this from a friend in USA: "TP / St Mary at Hill" receiver stamp. Feldman's listing says this only used 1838 to 1841. I've sent a note to the Stuart Rossiter Trust offering scans to extend the date of usage. Do you know of any updates to the "Letter Receivers"? &quo...

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Robin, It would have been pretty stupid for the Harrison's engineers to add the chromium plating to the cylinder prior to its being passed as OK for printing, wouldn't you agree...? If any changes were necessary following inspection, the plating would have had to have been stripped from the area nee...

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Robin, Check out the "Forces Postal History Society" web-site. You may find more info there!.

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I received this from Ian Harvey, who wishes it to be added to the discussion. "To answer your questions. The general procedure for collating interleaves was that they should be marked as additional information to printing the interleaves with the edition value, edition number and the inter leaf...

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"My guess is that early editions were in manuscript across two panes (value+edition on one, interleaf number on the next).." Are you suggesting that this occured in the same booklet? If so I can assure you that is not the case, my booklets show ONLY manuscript value+edition in one booklet,...

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In British Stamp Booklets Part 9 page 188 there is mention of the different types of interleaf page numbering which can be found in the 1935 Silver Jubilee booklets. Two types are illustrated and mentioned, but no booklet edition numbers are given for the different types. I have the following and wo...

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Robin/Ron, Perhaps I explained myself badly. It wasn't that the cylinder number was over-inked, merely that if you look at any cylinder number it immediately becomes apparent that it has been hand-engraved, in comparison to the control number which has been etched in the normal way. That is what mak...

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Hi, Ron, It looks to me that your offsets are at 3-row intervals. That means to me that the perforating head picked up the still wet ink from the margin and - as the perforator comb moved up the sheet - it deposited an impression of the heavily inked cylinder number at each strike of the comb head. ...

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Robin, Your cover was posted in LONDON WCDO, WC 1, to WALES. The lettering on the cancellation is "REGISTERED/WCDO, WC 1" and the registration label shows that the letter was posted, probably by a firm, at the main office in the West Central District Office. I believe that at that time the...

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Jim,
I can only provide the attached. As you can see the addressee's name and address has been excised. The cover is dated 13 Jan 1920.
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Sorry - forgot to mention: Where there is obviously only an expression such as 1N - with no pence quoted - this merely means that there were no pence in the postal charge. It was done that way to avoid confusion between figures. 1N0 - meaning 1 shilling and zero pence - the 0 could easily be mistake...

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Your original thoughts on this were completely correct! 1N3 means exactly that - 1(shilling) (a)N(d) 3(pence).

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Many thanks for your response. I'd looked everywhere without success, should have thought of The Times!

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For some years now I have had a Victorian envelope with the legend Bicentenary S.P.G. Exhibition in Gothic script in the top left corner. Despite extensive research on the internet, and posing the question to the GBPS postal history consultant, I have not been able to find more than a single sentenc...

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Ron, "Regarding the cylinder numbers on booklet sheets, are they replaceable like the dates on modern handstamps?" The answer being, of course, NO!! What you have seen on these two examples are merely vagaries of the photogravure printing process - which was never pretended to be a perfect...

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Robin/Ron, I have sent a message to your personal email addresses, including most of the info required. Ron's advert pane is from the outside - or right hand sheet - margin, as it has the wmk inverted. If the wmk was upright, then it would be from the LEFT hand sheet margin.

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Robin, There is NO HOHO - or even OHOH - on the binding margin of your pane! What you can see are the "feet" or lower parts of the sheet or rotation number, which is applied in black to every sheet as it is printed!

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Ron,
Dr Blade flaw without a doubt. The best way to tell is if the line is slightly diagonal, it's a Dr blade flaw. That is because the thin steel blade is set on the full horizontal, but the cylinder is moving so fast that it gives the impression that there is a slight lateral movement.
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Ron, An example of Ford's white blotting paper can be found in the 1935 Silver Jubilee 2/- booklet #300. In addition, I have an A4 sized example of the Golden Yellow blotter going spare! Let me have your postal address, and I'll send it on - always supposing you'd like it as a display item...? Best ...

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Mike, Thanks and my sincere apologies - I uploaded the wrong image! The correct one is shown here.

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1631_1.jpg I was recently able to find a couple of the small but constant varieties known to exist on the threehalfpence photogravure stamps printed from cylinder 45 stop. Unfortunately, although I have been able to trace the mention of one of them i...

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OOOPS! Missed Section 4.5! Thanks for pointing it out! The cover in question is still in the post (as they say!) However, it was sent UK to SWEDEN in late 1935 bearing 9x1d stamps; 8x1½d stamps, all of these two values being 1935 Silver Jubilee. There was also a block cypher 4d on the cover, for a c...

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Furfie specifically states that the air mail rates applied to all classes of mail, then goes on to say: "..including postcards and printed papers." He then states that a reduced postcard rate was introduced in 1932, but makes no further mention of printed papers! Why mention them in the fi...

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Can anyone help, please? I know that in 1935 Samples could be sent by both Inland and Overseas Post at preferential rates of postage. However, what I have not been able to discover is whether - when sent by Air to European destinations - Sample packets were treated as letters or at a special Sample ...

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Robin,
If there are constant flaws on the stamps which normally make-up the 4-stamp advert panes then it's quite possible you might be able to trace the same flaws on the 2-stamp panes from the 6d booklets. All I can say is - keep looking. And good luck!
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Robin, I'm afraid you've been misled! These small panes were NOT cut from normal sheets, but from ordinary sized booklet panes which were prepared as advertising panes. The adverts were printed after the stamps, so the panes would originally have consisted of two blank labels plus four stamps when t...

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Robin,
I would suggest your best bet would be to contact the GB Overprint Society.

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Ron, Just because a variety is clear and naked-eye visible - and constant - doesn't mean it's going to make it into the standard, or specialised, catalogues. I have been trying to get somewhere around 50 constant varieties on the KGV 1935 SJ booklets into the catalogue for the past few years, but th...

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There are facilities that you can use as a guest on ebay, which means you don't have to join!

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Ron,
There's nothing esoteric about watermarks! There's even a society for collectors of the damned things! Some of them are very expensive, but they're the older ones, of course. Somewhere in the region of 400-500 hundred years old!

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Hmmmmm! The explanation given in the final sentence here (attributed to "Dr Gordon Ward") appears identical to mine, above.

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Ron,
Probably - if you were to ask the librarian nicely - he would be able to photocopy and email you a copy of the reference I quoted, ie GBJournal Vol 1, page 113.

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Ron, The vertical perforations on this stamp appear to have been cut, as they are square ended, whereas the perfs at top and bottom of the stamp are uneven, so it is possible that this was a coil stamp, printed from a special cylinder. The apparent double impression is very noticable and could, repe...

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Ron, I have a couple of spare booklets of both values, not necessarily complete but good lookers, nevertheless. Let me know your private email address, and I'll send you scans and prices required. However, I have none of the CANCELLED/punched panes going spare. Purchase of those was just a matter of...

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Again, I must confess to being "that member who put up the display of KG V Silver Jubilee booklet panes with both punched centres and "cancelled" overprints". The only person who commented on the display at the time was our revered President, who "turned green" as he to...

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Ron,
I worked at the GPO in both the late 1950's and the late 1960's in London, where my stated misdeeds took place! By the time I came to Colchester in 1969, I had grown out of malpractices!

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Ron, The trouble with these hand-punches is that they were supplied to all post offices which accepted telegrams, to be used for the cancellation of any high value stamps used on the telegraph forms. Staff in those post offices sometimes used the punches for their own amusement on stamps other than ...

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Depends on the name of the publication!

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Hi, Dave, In response to your query, I collect the photogravure coils, leaders, and ends, but only as part of a general collection of the 1934-36 photogravure issue of KG V. I am also interested in the possibility of private coils being produced comprising only of stamps of the 1935 KG V Silver Jubi...

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The late Bill Meredith of Northampton was working on this problem, using dated covers as a guide. Unfortunately, he died before he could publish any conclusions. I have a note in my "Wants" book that the 1.5d intermediate size was issued at the end of Nov 1934, but cannot remember where I ...

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I often get Club booklets with stamps in Hawid strips instead of clear paper packets, from other Societies . I think it is usually acceptable, but it's up to the Packet Secretary to say Yea or Nay!

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I started collecting the 1934-36 photogravure issues in about 1955, paying particular attention to the marginal markings, especially those of the experimental periods between the start of new perforating methods. However, this is the first time that I have come across the line in the left margin (op...

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I know it's a bit outside the period in question, but when I worked on a post office counter in Central London in 1957, this was one of the things which were impressed upon us - that the registration fee was to be counted as part of the insured fee!

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Theo, Small point arising from your last posting. The weight was not "...added in handwriting by the postal clerk." That addition was made at the Office of Exchange, ie the outward foreign mail office, the last office at which the letter was handled prior to its being sent abroad. The limi...

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