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- Fri Oct 23, 2015 8:55 pm
- Forum: King George V
- Topic: Potential for forgery ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 25696
Re: Potential for forgery ?
It looks to me like a block used for printing an illustration in a book. There are some actual machine cancel dies about, but AFAIR they're not flat, but curved (due to the nature of the cancelling machine mechanism), and they're all metal not mounted on a wooden block. Also, of course, they have ch...
- Mon Sep 14, 2015 9:15 pm
- Forum: Postal Rates
- Topic: Redirection charges - abolition dates
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12698
- Tue Jun 30, 2015 11:59 pm
- Forum: Downey Heads
- Topic: Returned Letter Branch cancellation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 17264
Re: Returned Letter Branch cancellation
What they could be in that context is something from an internal docket for postage due, a method of accounting between offices -- in the same way as many nicely cancelled high values are. Even if that's a correct guess, I don't think it would be accurate to think of them as sort of "substitute...
- Thu May 21, 2015 9:34 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: May/June issue of Newsletter & Journal
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12278
Re: May/June issue of Newsletter & Journal
Not yet! I believe these are delayed due to deadline issues -- i.e. making sure all the reports from the Diamond Jubilee event were available for this edition.
- Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:26 am
- Forum: Surface Printed
- Topic: Early use of 1s green, plate 6 (SG 117)?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10437
Re: Early use of 1s green, plate 6 (SG 117)?
It looks convincing to me, and if so would be an excellent find. Well worth submitting for a certificate? I'm not sure the impression would necessarily need to be prooflike -- for comparison I attach a picture of the March 1869 example, which was shown at a GBPS meeting a few years back (the April 1...
- Sun Oct 05, 2014 4:08 pm
- Forum: King George V
- Topic: Control numbers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 28757
Re: Control numbers
Regarding the "why did SH continue to print the 6d?" question, I'm not a GV expert either, but to the best of my knowledge, this was a consequence of the fact that the 6d was heavily used for fiscal purposes (the "revenue" part of the "Postage & Revenue" inscription...
- Sun Jul 27, 2014 4:02 pm
- Forum: Surface Printed
- Topic: Victoria Jubilee issue layout
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16478
Re: Victoria Jubilee issue layout
Can't help with a picture, but a full sheet was 240 stamps, i.e. 12 panes of 20.
- Sat Jul 26, 2014 4:17 pm
- Forum: King Edward VIII
- Topic: Fords Blotting Paper in 3/- booklets
- Replies: 3
- Views: 15151
Re: Fords Blotting Paper in 3/- booklets
New link for that isHarvey wrote: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.
https://sites.google.com/site/gbstampbooklets/
- Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:11 pm
- Forum: Postal Stationery
- Topic: 1875 penny farthing postcard
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11915
Re: 1875 penny farthing postcard
1/7/75 is correct, Alexios. There are a few first day examples around (unfortunately I don't have one!).
- Wed May 21, 2014 10:57 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Testing Thread
- Replies: 5
- Views: 16436
Re: Testing Thread
Posting test.
- Mon Dec 02, 2013 11:06 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: "Isle of Ulva" cachet, 1993
- Replies: 0
- Views: 11945
"Isle of Ulva" cachet, 1993
I've had the commercial cover illustrated here for about 20 years -- more or less since it came out of one of the sacks of book club mail that were sorted through by members of the Torquay Philatelic Society. It has a cachet of the Isle of Ulva with a wolf's head in the centre ("ulva" mean...
- Mon Nov 04, 2013 11:32 pm
- Forum: King George V
- Topic: Gum type £1 PUC?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 25171
Re: Gum type £1 PUC?
As far as I know, all these early 20th century stamps were gum arabic?Peterd123 wrote:Sorry, for some reason the message did not list. I would like to know what the gum type is on the £1 PUC. And if it is normal for the gum to go brown.
- Mon Nov 04, 2013 11:30 pm
- Forum: Surface Printed
- Topic: QV Jubilee 4.5d
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9377
Re: QV Jubilee 4.5d
As far as I know, the basic use it was introduced for was to pay the second step parcel post rate: http://www.gbps.org.uk/rates/inland/parcels-1883-1966.php That would have allowed the lowest three rates to be paid with a single stamp, and all the rates to be paid with no more than two stamps. It al...
- Fri Nov 01, 2013 8:32 pm
- Forum: Pre-Stamp
- Topic: 18th & early 19th Century Mail with "Speed" or "With Speed"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13531
Re: 18th & early 19th Century Mail with "Speed" or "With Speed"
Can anyone explain the manuscript entries (usually at bottom left of front panel on mails) "Speed" and "With Speed"? The implication is that the item is to be delivered post-haste yet the postal charges I've seen do not reflect other than standard delivery services. It may be si...
- Wed May 01, 2013 7:05 pm
- Forum: Pre-Stamp
- Topic: "Copy" on 1838 letter
- Replies: 5
- Views: 16427
Transfer from previous board: original post 30794
Just an addendum: I believe it was quite a common practice to draft the reply to a letter on its blank space, so that you had a copy of the reply on the same sheet when you filed the letter away. Could this be what was happening here?
- Wed May 01, 2013 7:00 pm
- Forum: Pre-Stamp
- Topic: "Copy" on 1838 letter
- Replies: 5
- Views: 16427
Transfer from previous board: original post 30793
Apologies to Dave ("Seahorse") -- in deleting the duplicate posts I inadvertently deleted the original as well. Text follows: "Some sort of memorandum to himself" I think you have it there. The explanation is maybe the simple one that once he had taken action on something, he cro...
- Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:05 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Research versus high value
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14344
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My point was that until relatively recently -- say the last 30 years -- as I understand it there generally wasn't such a thing as an explicitly followed mark scheme, things were a bit ad hoc. So we had the concept of a "Gold Medal country" which (to borrow a phrase from Geraint Jones) was ...
- Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:00 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Research versus high value
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14344
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As far as I can tell, Tony actually has it the wrong way round -- the big money exhibits have always been more likely candidates for the top prizes, and the "research route" alternative to high marks is something that has really only come in over the last few decades?
- Thu Apr 11, 2013 7:10 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: Economy envelopes and Reuse labels
- Replies: 3
- Views: 14984
Transfer from previous board: original post 29291
Post Office Circular 22nd May 1940 p237 PAPER SHORTAGE – RE-USE OF ENVELOPES “In the interests of economy, it has been decided to allow envelopes to be used again for postal purposes, provided that old stamps and stamp impressions and the original addresses are completely covered with white or very ...
- Sun Apr 07, 2013 7:00 pm
- Forum: Postal Markings
- Topic: Wilding cancellation
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7883
Wilding cancellation
Seems to be another of the fairly random boxed cancels used on stamps that missed cancellation -- not sure if that was the original intended purpose, or whether they were just pressed into service as such but originally intended for something else (telegraphs?).
A couple more examples attached.
A couple more examples attached.
- Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:05 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Major Whitehouse and Colonel Pike
- Replies: 6
- Views: 14286
Transfer from previous board: original post 25896
Can't help with Whitehouse and Pike (both sound vaguely familiar, as I should remember them, but I don't), but "Maximus" was the name used when Ron Lee (a founder of the GBPS) auctioned off his collections. I've never heard that he collected 20th century GB though, although I might be wron...
- Fri Sep 14, 2012 7:05 pm
- Forum: Postal Markings
- Topic: Klussendorf cancellations
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8326
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Robin -- sorry, I meant to send you an article on this machine mark, but I forgot to scan it. I'll dig it out when I get back home.
- Fri May 18, 2012 7:00 pm
- Forum: Pre-Stamp
- Topic: Mileage from Bristol to London
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12379
Transfer from previous board: original post 2100
The only thing I can suggest is that from round about the start of 1838, the mileage was charged on the basis of the shortest distance by public road, not (as before) on the distance actually conveyed by the Post Office routing which could be quite a bit longer. So it's quite possible that this resu...
- Thu May 10, 2012 7:00 pm
- Forum: Postal Markings
- Topic: "Lower Walmer" Squared Circle
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8129
Transfer from previous board: original post 2096
Posting a reply at the request of the man himself:
"The answer is Lower Walmer/Deal is listed in my book under Deal with full details, dates, on page 187,
Stanley Cohen"
"The answer is Lower Walmer/Deal is listed in my book under Deal with full details, dates, on page 187,
Stanley Cohen"
- Mon May 07, 2012 7:05 pm
- Forum: Postal Rates
- Topic: Parcel Post Rate to Vienna in 1933
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11108
Transfer from previous board: original post 2092
As it happens, I have a 1933 PO Guide! This turns out to be a highest weight step parcel at 5s 9d -- parcels were sent via Belgium and Germany daily, and the rates were: Up to 2lb weight -- 2s 6d 2lb to 7lb -- 3s 3d 7lb to 11lb -- 3s 9d 11lb to 22lb -- 5s 9d There was an airmail service, but that wa...
- Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:05 pm
- Forum: Postal Markings
- Topic: wavy line cancels
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8775
Transfer from previous board: original post 2045
The number and style of wavy lines was originally whatever the manufacturer of the (single-impression) cancelling machine decided to use -- this format was used by the "Universal" machines, "Krag" used five bars, "Hey-Dolphin" varied. The dater dies were even more disti...
- Thu Dec 01, 2011 6:05 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: Mourning Mail
- Replies: 3
- Views: 15420
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It wasn't disposed of, so would have made its way back to the sender, presumably because the Glasgow Returned Letter Branch opened it to get his/her address from the letter. "Not found" would usually refer to the address -- since the Post Office deliver to that rather than the addressee, p...
- Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:05 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: Real postal history
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10647
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If I could determine what attitudes you're referring to, maybe I could explain them. Unfortunately, the post seems to go all around the point without ever crystallizing into something definite ... What particular error or errors aroused your ire?
- Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:15 pm
- Forum: Queen Elizabeth II
- Topic: Edinburgh Postal Training School
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12550
Transfer from previous board: original post 1903
I did a piece on these for the last Newsletter, so you're not the only one they strike as strange. Unfortunately I didn't have any more specific information than you do -- i.e. it was purely based on observations of the things -- but there are very many bizarre combinations! If the actual cachets ha...
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:10 pm
- Forum: Downey Heads
- Topic: Information/Opinions sought on "OFFICIAL" overprinted 1d. Downey
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11875
Transfer from previous board: original post 1853
It won't be a Departmental overprint because that whole system was scrapped in 1904. It looks vaguely like a specimen-type overprint, but a fake seems very likely.
- Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:00 pm
- Forum: Postal Rates
- Topic: Do you have any GB postal rate leaflets?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 10542
Do you have any GB postal rate leaflets?
A question for UK-based members only, I suspect: do you by any chance keep back copies of the postal rate leaflets that the Post Office issue when the rates change? I'm currently trying to collate a basic listing of British inland rates for the purpose of putting it on the GBPS site, but the referen...
- Fri Jul 08, 2011 7:05 pm
- Forum: Postal Rates
- Topic: Redirection charges - abolition dates
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12698
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Excellent! Thanks Bob -- just what I needed.
- Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:00 pm
- Forum: Postal Rates
- Topic: Redirection charges - abolition dates
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12698
Redirection charges - abolition dates
Can anyone supply the date that the charge for redirection of mail outside of the local delivery area was abolished? It was late 1890s, as I recall, but it's one of those things that for some reason I can never, ever remember accurately or find a reference to when I need to use it.
- Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:10 pm
- Forum: Postal Markings
- Topic: Cancellation query
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14280
Transfer from previous board: original post 1759
"S.O." was (and is) a standard and frequently seen abbreviation for "Sorting Office".
- Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:05 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: GBPS Online Index - How to get (e)copies of articles?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8932
Transfer from previous board: original post 1733
Possibly this, Chris? There are various indexes on the Journal pages:
http://www.gbps.org.uk/publications/journal
http://www.gbps.org.uk/publications/journal
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:10 pm
- Forum: Wildings
- Topic: Wilding 6d coil stamps
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17047
Transfer from previous board: original post 1727
I took a look in that catalogue earlier and couldn't find an illustration -- very useful to have the information though, I agree!
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:00 pm
- Forum: Wildings
- Topic: Wilding 6d coil stamps
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17047
Wilding 6d coil stamps
Does anyone have examples of (or images of) the Wilding 6d coils -- preferably the coil leaders? I'd like to get pictures for comparison purposes with a view to commenting on the use of this stamp to uprate registration envelopes in 1956 and 1961.
- Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:05 pm
- Forum: Postal Rates
- Topic: Extra 10d on mail to Switzerland
- Replies: 12
- Views: 28816
Transfer from previous board: original post 1656
I believe the L1 postmarks were used to indicate the late fee period in which the letter was processed, not necessarily that a late fee had in fact been paid. With this cover the "Too Late" mark suggests that the sender paid it at quadruple rate, but didn't manage to get it posted before t...
- Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:05 pm
- Forum: Postal Rates
- Topic: Samples by Air
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13532
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That rate looks correct to me as far as I can tell from the book. There don't seem to have been many airmail sample rates to anywhere.
- Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:15 pm
- Forum: Postal Rates
- Topic: Samples by Air
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13532
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Presumably he mentioned them as one of the common types of non-letter mail. Or maybe because in section 4.5 on the next page, describing the 1960s airmail newspapers service to Europe, he says "Since the introduction of combined rates in 1930 there had been no special air rates for other classe...
- Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:05 pm
- Forum: Postal Rates
- Topic: Samples by Air
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13532
Transfer from previous board: original post 1568
According to Michael Furfie's book "British Civilian Postage Rates of the 20th Century", after the introduction in 1930 of combined airmail letter rates (i.e. including both air fee and ordinary postage) there were no special air rates to Europe after other than for postcards from 1932. So...
- Thu Dec 02, 2010 6:00 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Passed by British Philatelic Association
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8977
Passed by British Philatelic Association
http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1556_1.jpg The recent pieces in the Newsletter on the subject of the wartime Philatelic Import and Export Control sparked my interest, as the stamp trade during and immediately after the war is one of my "collections within a collection" (o...
- Sun Nov 28, 2010 6:25 pm
- Forum: Downey Heads
- Topic: Downey Head cutouts on "pink" paper
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13583
Transfer from previous board: original post 1535
As George King pointed out when I consulted him about a GVI item, basically embossed dies are listed under envelopes, and letterpress dies are listed under either postcards or newspaper wrappers, regardless of what they were actually used for -- moderately confusing but at least it keeps all the typ...
- Sun Nov 28, 2010 6:10 pm
- Forum: Downey Heads
- Topic: Downey Head cutouts on "pink" paper
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13583
Transfer from previous board: original post 1531
Best bet is to contact Alan Huggins, Colin Baker, or George King for full details. However, if I remember correctly dealers at the time prepared quite a number of variants on different types of paper, and at least one started referring to the varieties as different varieties of stamp, presumably to ...
- Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:05 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: Postal History defined
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9648
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Yes.
Although I got your message the first time ...
Although I got your message the first time ...
- Sat Sep 11, 2010 7:00 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: Posted out of course
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10847
Transfer from previous board: original post 1295
Somewhat stream-of-consciousness thoughts below! (Only just avoided posting one silly comment when I took a closer look.) Yes, the cover's fine. 'Posted out of course' does (or did) mean exactly what you say when referring to registered mail (you could also have posted out of course parcels, I under...
- Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:00 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: Railway cover
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9919
Transfer from previous board: original post 1280
That's quite a nice one (pity about the stains). I think the station address is coincidental and it's not a parcel -- it's a 'railway letter'. That was a concessionary express service which allowed a letter to be speeded up by being put directly on board a train going to where it was addressed. It c...
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:05 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: A confusing cover
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7539
Transfer from previous board: original post 1267
Psst -- the Delaware cancel is actually 17th May. :) "Returned for Postage" is a US mark -- presumably this was someone at the US news company creating a philatelic cover by using recently-issued foreign stamps and seeing what happened. (I guess new issue supplies would have had time to ge...
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:05 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: 12:15am - morning or afternoon?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7772
Transfer from previous board: original post 1266
Yep, 12:15am is a quarter past midnight -- it's before noon, after all! -- and 12:15pm is early afternoon. A large post office like Birmingham presumably would be cancelling mail in the middle of the night shift (the time slug on the machine wouldn't change throughout the run, of course, so it might...
- Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:05 pm
- Forum: Postal Markings
- Topic: Triangle cancellation mystery
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8465
Transfer from previous board: original post 1264
Yes, that's normal -- printed matter was also referred to as 'second class mail', and a similar rule applied as for current second class mail, i.e. it could be held over in order to process more critical letter mail. Circulars posted in bulk (which is what this would have been) had to be posted by a...