Great Britain Philatelic Society

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/28547_1.jpg Very nice Robin, As a matter of interest, do I detect a 'shoulder retouch' on the King? It will probably have to be listed in the 'back of the book' area. That should make a good impression but not as striking as the one illustrated here!...

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Nice find Robin,
Lots of e-bay mouths will be watering over the prospect of that one. Advertise it as 50 percent off!
Cheers
Ron.

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/27748_1.jpg Hi All, We have a letter dated 3rd December 1838 addressed to Queen Square in London. and a scan of the second page is attached. It is headed 'Stanley Copy A/C' and we are curious about the lines drawn down the whole page. The text seems ...

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G'day AJM
Unfortunately we do not know what your question is

However, does this give you the answer?
From the Postal Cancellations of London 1840-90
H C Westley.

"Registered Letter Branch"
Cheers
Ron and Eunice.

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Hello all, Does anyone know of a source for finding the print figures for the KE8 booklets? I have checked our reference books, Kirk, Vallancey, Four Kings and the British Stamp Booklets series and have googled, but can find no information on the numbers actually printed/issued, either for each valu...

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Hi Robin, We think this is one of the Dr Whitney's references, but it has changed number since our version of his catalogue which is VERY OLD..third edition..(on our version it is number 222 not 152) This should have 5 wavy bars after it, which on your copy presumably has been cut off. This was a Lo...

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Hi "Lennox" Thanks for the swift response but I am afraid you have lost me completely Being in Australia I will have to wait a while to get the July/August newsletter, but maybe that will clarify things for me a bit. The negative figures 155/0 and 181/0 leave me confused, which shows how d...

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Hello All, The scan attached shows the difference between this flaw on cylinder 17 and on cylinder 18 (UB25). On cylinder 18 the flaw is much lighter and the dark spot behind the crown on cylinder 17 has almost disappeared on cyl 18. This spot is not mentioned in my (outdated) S.G. G.B. Spec cat vol...

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Hi Harvey, Many thanks for that response. As mentioned I am pretty clueless regarding printing methods and I am sassuming from your reply that the perforator comb moves up the sheet in 3 row strikes. Your comments would also explain why the offset gets fainter as it moves up the sheet. That's great,...

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/2159_1.jpg G'day all, Can anyone explain to me how cylinder number multiple offsets occur? I can understand how a 'normal' offset of a stamp occurs but in this case multiple offsets of the cylinder number occur all up the margin of the sheet. If it c...

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Hello All, Whilst checking through my KEVIII 2½d blues the other day I came across a block of twelve, 3 x 4 with bottom selvedge. One of the stamps on Row 17 had what appeared to be a retouch just below the ear. It consisted of a light patch with two dark spots. Intrigued I checked further and then ...

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Hi Robin, That sounds like a heap of research from a dedicated collector. It is good that you are keeping us up to date with your work and it is just a pity that I do not collect that area as I am sure the information would be fantastic. I hope you get some response from this posting. Keep up the go...

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Hi Ieamphil and all, As no one else has offered any suggestions, here are ours : Our reference is Alan Robertson's Great Britain Post Roads, Post Towns and Postal rates 1635-1840 and this shows the mileage for Bristol as 122, and the two letters we have are dated 1822 and 1825 both showing that figu...

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Hi Robin, Regarding the watermarks - with the 240 set sheet layout for stamp books the cylinder numbers would be on the left hand side of the sheet alongside the upright stamps. In the centre margin the same applies with the cylinder beside the upright stamps. Thus an inverted cylinder pane should n...

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Hello John,
Many thanks indeed for that response which we will pass on to the original enquirer.
I am sure he will be pleased with the response to his query.
We appreciate you taking the trouble to explain when the system does not seem to want to take your scan.
All the best
Ron and Eunice.

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Hello all, We have received the following query by e-mail and though we know we have seen references to financial accounting years we cannot put our fingers on the source. We have tried the Four Kings, Kirk etc. but cannot find the reference. Can anyone help with this. Quote:- Several writers easily...

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Thanks for that Howard, Francois has followed up his request giving us an image of a datestamp with the little Maltese Cross underneath the year. We have found the reference as to when it was in use but nothing about who designed it. We think that would be lost in the mist of time. Appreciate your c...

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Hello All, We have been asked the following questions by a visitor to our website and though we have reference books, including "Date Stamps of the General Post Branch Offices in London, 1829-1858" by R. Hawkins, we cannot find anything that answers the questions. Quote:- I have a question...

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Dear Theo, Many thanks for that. We do not have the book you mention so appreciate your scans. We bought a copy of 'Three Centuries of Scottish Posts' by Haldane and thought it would answer a lot of our queries on Scottish mails but did not find it a lot of help unfortunately. It is good to have thi...

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/2063_1.jpg Hi all, The attached image is of a Scottish Bishop Mark on an entire letter Bridgend to Edinburgh dated 12 Septmbr 1799. We cannot find this particular 3 illustrated in any of our reference books. Does anyone know if this is unusual or is ...

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Thanks for that Robin. We had wondered if it was for the margins. Such a shame about the fakes but when there is a profit to make someone will take advantage. Some of the halfv cuts on the booklet panes you mention are pretty costly and how easy is it to spot them? Presumably the same applies with t...

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/2032_1.jpg http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/2032_2.jpg Hi All, We have been checking on coil joins on KEVIII and KGVI (unfortunately we only have four) and have a query. From what we can gather the normal coil join looks like the firs...

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Hi Theo,
We would also be interested in this - would it be possible for you to send the pdf to us at
ears@gil.com.au.

We would be most appreciative.

Thanks

Ron and Eunice.

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Robin, We did a quick run through the data base we have of the complete run of booklets and I think you will find that the Edition you are looking at is number 354. Jean did advise me that she had cards produced with the relevant interleaf adverts but that to include it in the book would have been t...

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Mike/Ian Many thanks for that swift response and for all the information which will be very useful. Eunice and I did a data-base of all the commercial advertising in the complete run that we have. 500,000 books seems a lot and one wonders why they are so expensive now, Supply and demand no doubt. Th...

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1921_1.jpg Hello All, Can anyone confirm if the commercial advertising on the interleaves in KEVIII booklets is the same for the whole printing of one booklet edition number. I have trawled through the British Stamp Booklets Parts 1 - 9 and though th...

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Hi Harvey
Thanks for that information. It has sorted us out before we could even answer.

We got the original query on our e-mail but we don't always get them that way, so check regularly on the 'board'.
Nice to see a swift response to a Postal History question.
Regards to all
Ron and Eunice.

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Hello there,
Can you post an example so we can see exactly what you mean?

We do not think we have seen that on any of our old letters, but we have some examples of manuscript charge markings in the book "For the Port and Carriage of Letters" by David Robinson.
Thanks
Eunice and Ron

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Thanks for looking John, yes it was the 'long S' thingummy - very interesting letter altogether, but it is not modern French, and the ink has gone through the fine paper, which has made deciphering it much harder than our usual old letters. Fortunately, we had help from a friend of a friend to trans...

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1862_1.jpg Very interesting reading, particularly the Times report. Thanks. This is just periphal to the posting but thought it might be of interest. It is for the Society for the Propogation of the Faith. Disinfected mail - 1845 Constantinople Turke...

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Hello again,
We have found this problem before.
When we put our website on it takes the next word after the url so making it invalid.

I have tried just typing it in rather than cut and paste and hope it comes up OK
Cheers
Ron and Eunice.

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Hello Seahorse This goes under the case of 'local knowledge' we think. We have a set of letters written to a lady in Hathersage, and the postmarks all link to Bakewell, whereas we thought it would be much more sensible to be linked with Sheffield. When we queried this with someone who was also inter...

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We are not experts here, so don't know if this is going to be of any help, but at least you know we have looked and tried to help in the Alan Robertson book, it just says that Uckfield had 12 Penny Post offices, but does not name them. In the G.F. Oxley book he lists the offices, but Ripe is not one...

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Yes, and Eunice and I are fortunate in having a lot of interests in common, so our brains are not static and we spark off each other. All good for the grey cells. I agree that too much specialisation can get you too close but in that respect we do have wider views - we have several other philatelic ...

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Robin, Thanks for that response. I obviously have the wrong view and had not looked at the P.O. being the customer and only having what they paid for in the adverts. Unfortunately, you are correct of course, regarding the number and differences in booklets. Finance is a big consideration for the maj...

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Hi Robin, Thanks for the reply - I missed it first time around. For some reason, sometimes I get notification of messages being posted and sometimes not and I had not checked that thread again until a couple of days ago. We both (Eunice and I) specialise to a minor degree or at least to our percepti...

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1800_1.jpg http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1800_2.jpg Hi All, As a follow up to this query - I came across a couple of photocopies tucked away with some coil leaders. With them was a typed note on part of an album page with the follo...

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1802_1.jpg Hello All, We have a KGVI booklet SG BD12 2/- Edition 504 in which the 4th and 5th interleaf panes have an advertisement on the front but the back is blank. The 4th interleaf has the 'Moorland' advert. on the front and is blank on the back...

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1798_1.jpg http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1798_2.jpg http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1798_3.jpg Hello All, Having had no response from a previous posting I thought I would re-post on the 'booklets' section, which I ...

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1795_1.jpg http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1795_2.jpg Hi All, As a follow up to this query - I came across a couple of photocopies tucked away with some coil leaders. With them was a typed note on part of an album page with the follo...

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1773_1.jpg Hello All, We have a KGVI booklet SG BD12 2/- Edition 504 in which the 4th and 5th interleaf panes have an advertisement on the front but the back is blank. The 4th interleaf has the 'Moorland' advert. on the front and is blank on the back...

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1776_1.jpg http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1776_2.jpg http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1776_3.jpg Hello All, We have a booklet BB6 2s. 0d. pre-cancelled which has the Type I precancel except that the date and month ar...

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Hi all, Thanks Harvey and Robin for your responses - much appreciated. Harvey, It sounds as if the cylinder numbers on sheets would be the same and would explain some little differences on the '2' on some that I have? Robin, Did you visit Harrisons yourself - it must have been very interesting if yo...

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1744_1.jpg Booklet cylinder numbers Hi all, I have just been checking through our booklet panes and came across these two cylinder panes. Following threads and e-mails over the last couple of months has shown me just how ignorant I am about basic pri...

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Hi Robin et al, Re the numbers in selvedges, this is the only one I can lay my hands on. Unfortunately of course, I have no idea what the numbers may be. The pane is inverted watermark. Cheers Ron. P.S. I see that Harvey has come up trumps again so we at least (Robin and I) now know what it is all a...

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Harvey,
Thanks for that - I thought that would be the case but appreciate the other bit of information re the cylinder etc.

Regards
Ron.

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1729_1.jpg Hello all, Whilst checking through our booklets, listing the advert panes, I came across this red line on the selvedge of one of the panes. It looks like the guide/cut line on the Machin panes but I do not think that KEVIII had those did t...

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John, I have finally tracked down what was bugging me about the Q for G postings. I was getting confused when all the messages were being repeated before the actual new message appeared and I missed your comments - (or at least I was confused by who actually sent it) and did not respond. I attribute...

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Robin, We read your posting with interest and have plenty of sympathy with your experiences. Back in the late 1960's Eunice and I formed the Melksham Philatelic Society in Wiltshire and one of the members was a gentleman who collected the Postal History of Krakow. He went into the subject in great d...

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We have a query re charges on mail from Co. Cork in Ireland to Alnwick Northumberland, 1813-1814 . All five letters were written by General L.S. Orde who was stationed in Fermoy in Co. Cork, Ireland and all written to the solicitor Robert Thorp of Alnwick Northumberland. They all have the post mark ...

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