Great Britain Philatelic Society

Seahorse

Thanks AS 1961 for your response. I have been through a similar thought process, and in addition have scans tucked away elsewhere. Although this might increase the likelihood of tracing the thieves or their fences, villains have a habit of damaging or destroying things they regard as too risky to fe...

Seahorse

Thanks for reply I did not receive the email - so it looks as if you are plagued with black holes that swallow library books and emails alike. However, should the book turn up, please get in touch and I will endeavor to buy it before it disappears again !

Seahorse

Re Lee Vol 1 now marked as sold

I sent the email, but it appears to have got lost in cyberspace

Why not simply tell me the price, including postage and packing, on this forum, and the address to send a cheque to ? I will of course send the destination address with my cheque

Seahorse

I wish to purchase the following if still available :- LEE, R. A. G. Queen Victoria. A Specialised Study of the 1881 One Penny Lilac. Part 1. Frame Damage. London: The Great Britain Philatelic Society, 1963. 71 pp. £15.00 Please email (or PM) price inclusive of p&p and where to send cheque or ca...

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Thank you Winston, I have taken your advice, and found many are thinking as I was, that, particularly on Ebay, there is a strong element of "the emperor's new clothes" (blue-dyed in this case) in many "bleute " blacks offered for sale As regards REAL bleute paper " The bluin...

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Just what is it ? Stanley Gibbons (Q Vic Specialised Catalogue) list each of the first 8 plates as having a variety "on bleute paper" but omit to describe it. The erudite Seymour (Postage Stamps of Gt Britain Vol I) does not mention it as such - but refers to "blued paper", and e...

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Yesterday I received a reminder that the annual premium re my stamp and cover collection is due shortly. True to form, just like one's household insurance and car insurance, there is an above-inflation increase in premium "due to increased costs" Hmmm, I have just demonstrated over the las...

Seahorse

Just come across this thread - a year later ! I don't think there is necessarily a clear-cut reason for the use of the NPB stamp. The newspaper branch produced many such and similar in the early 1870s, and as the years went by these were used more or less indiscriminately. Some clerks were meticulou...

Seahorse

russell1307 wrote:I assume you are aware that John Parmenter revised all his Barred Numeral Cancellation books (the counties not London) during 2013?

Yes, thanks, I have some of them

Seahorse

I am trying to locate and purchase the following books by Parmenter --- Barred Numeral Cancellations Volume 6 - England Warwickshire to Yorkshire, First Update. London, 1991. --- GB Used Abroad: Cancellations and Postal Markings. Beckenham: The Postal History Society, 1993. 344pp. --- Barred Numeral...

Seahorse

Hi, Can anybody, please, point me in the direction of information on 2d Blue Plate 3 being printed on thin paper? There is a reference to Perkins Bacon obtaining thinner paper "for experimental use" from Mr Stacey Wise of Rush Mills, Northampton in late 1840 (216 sheets "thinner than...

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Many thanks, at the moment I just drop all perfins in a large box labelled "perfins" and promise myself I will get to grips with the growing accumulation when I have the rest of my GB collection in order. This year my enthusiasm has meant that accumulation of fresh GB material has run ahea...

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To quote Sir Walter Scott :- “There was then a custom, not yet wholly obsolete, of causing a letter from one town to another, perhaps within the distance of thirty miles, perform a circuit of two hundred miles before delivery, which had the combined advantage of airing the epistle thoroughly, of add...

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Thanks Andy and others - exactly the info I needed

Seahorse

Agreed, just logged in under the new system.

Seahorse

FPO 16 was used in Jerusalem from 1-10-1936 until 7-1-37 according to Proud (History of British Army Postal Services) It was preceded by a long argument with the Palestinians (sounds familiar?) over the use of British Postage stamps Off on holiday tomorrow until Aug 3, but am happy to pursue this fu...

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No apologies needed mozzerb
I was busy deleting the duplicates myself, probably at the same time as you!

I must learn to be more patient after pressing the "add message" button !

Seahorse

Amongst a collection of Edward VII halfpenny stamps on postcards I have a squared circle postmark, for Lower Walmer, dated April 26 1906. A squared circle Lower Walmer is not listed in the recent SG "Collect British Postmarks", nor is it my copy of Cohen, although I do not have the supplem...

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Nice cover.
From Buxton to Bakewell. A twist on John Ruskin's comment on the construction of the Midland Railway through the Peak District "..now every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton."

Unless he is a postman lost in space-time......

Seahorse

Quote, Tony Finch "He reminded me to write to our mutual friend, Lord Winchester, and this I did, taking the letter to the post office for which I was required to pay the sum of twenty two pence and affix a small label upon the envelope."

Excellent !

Provenance is all.......

Seahorse

Apparently predates the coronation of Charles II and possibly the Bishop mark also.

Seahorse

Thanks Ron and Eunice As you say, local knowledge. The OS map of 1813 seems to confirm that the then road from Ripe to Lewes was easier (and shorter) than that to Uckfield. However, looking at a website re the history of Ripe yields the information that the local post went through "Hurst-Green&...

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Many thanks Ron and Eunice. Yes, I found the reference in Oxley also. Why a letter written in Ripe should go through Uckfield is in itself strange. Ripe isn't very near any of the ROs listed, in fact in 1823, if one were in Ripe, it would be easier to get to Lewes by travelling west along the road a...

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I have an 1823 entire with a blue "Uckfield Penny Post" (County Catalogue SX 1236) backstamp, and a type 53 (ie boxed) RH stamp "No 1" in black on the front. The letter was written from Ripe (a village a few miles SE of Uckfield) Does anyone know if Ripe was a receiving house for...

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Thanks, I will keep a look out on eBay, as £70-£300 for the alternative seems too much Interested in what you say re the Signoscope. Bought one years ago. The one thing I found infuriating was the Heath Robinson connecting lead. The electrical connections were bad, so that the light kept flickering....

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Dauwalders used to advertise a "Morley Bright ROLLATECTOR" As a collector of Victorian covers, I thought how nice it would be if I could detect an inverted watermark or three amongst my collection! Accordingly I visited Dauwalders but was informed the manufacturing company had changed hand...

Seahorse

Many thanks - I can see it now from your enhanced image - what I thought was a corner of a London-style internal diamond is in fact the figure "7"

Seahorse

Could someone please help with identification of a cancellation? This is a blue-grey barred oval with what appears to be a lined diamond inside. The odd thing is that the long axis of the diamond does not line up with either of the axes of the oval. I did wonder if it was a double impression. Unfort...

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In Stanley Gibbons GB Vol 1 Queen Victoria, on p34 of the ninth edition, we are given details of how plates are laid down. I quote "order of laying down was not always the same but generally speaking was in vertical columns ....numerous exceptions, such as plates 2,7 and 8, which as is shown by...

Seahorse

Ah, found it as http://www.angelfire.com/pr/perfinsoc/index.html

Thanks for putting me on the right path!

Seahorse

Thanks, Mike,but clicking on that link brings up a message that the page does not exist, and "Please report this dead link"
I will try a few variants on that link

Seahorse

Another explanation might be that exposure to UV light (ie strong sunlight) has bleached out the colour.

Some dyes are more susceptible to such bleaching than others.

Somebody somewhere must have conducted experiments on those lines.

Seahorse

If you look closely, there are faint impressions of the tablet - I wondered if it was an absence of ink on the roller rather than a washout?

Seahorse

Could somebody direct me to a book /article /website that gives a definitive account of British perfins please?

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/639_1.jpg I too have such a stamp, which turned up in a "job lot" It is unfranked (but lacks original gum), badly creased, but otherwise whole. I too was puzzled, as the usual effect of water damage on this issue is to wash out the purple a...

Seahorse

Thanks Mike - I have ordered Part II, and no doubt Bill Barrel will find a Part 1 for me eventually.

Seahorse

Thanks Russell - will look out for Lee's book - I'm on a fairly steep learning curve since I joined GBPS!

Seahorse

As the system doesn't seem to like Imageshack, try this one

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I was checking over about a hundred 1d lilacs I have accumulated, searching for inverted watermark K8d and frame breaks K8j and K8k. Didn't find any, but came across the following apparent breaks in the NW corner of one stamp. It does appear to be a genuine frame break, as the corner between the two...

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"Lower Walmer" Squared Circle

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Uckfield (East Sussex) Receiving Houses

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Detection of watermarks on cover

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Odd Blue-grey cancellation on Plate 56 Die 1

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Perfins

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Possible frame break in 1d lilac