Great Britain Philatelic Society

Winston W

Thanks for that info. I hadn't realised there was any sort of buy back scheme into the 21st century, even if that was at a 15% discount.

Winston W

The oval P means paid. My understanding is that St. P.A. in oval stands for Stadt Post Amt, the Prussian state post transit mark. You mention there is a Hamburg Germany marking, but I would take that to read "K.D.O.P.A. HAMBURG" applied by the Royal Danish Postal Agency in Hamburg, rather ...

Winston W

Can one exchange unused (& valid) postage stamps for cash at a Post Office ? I was under the impression no, although you could in Victorian times. However back in 2008 https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/885409/unused-stamps a contributor wrote this:- You can resell them to the Post...

Winston W

Tony,

Very much a guess, but might this display help you with what C.P.C. stamp permit is about?
https://www.gbps.org.uk/displays/passed-by-bpa/

Winston W

I suspect you have used the correct EI lettering (not EL as may appear at first glance), as that is in the scan file name. However have you transposed your c and d readings?

FWIW, I make it 6 2+ 2- 8- and come up with several A2 possibilities.

Any more queries I will leave to someone else.

Winston W

I'm not familiar with the Mac, but if you keep things as simple as possible and scan at 800dpi and directly save into jpg format, what does the saved file show as its Properties - Details - Image for the first half dozen entries for Image?

Winston W

You don't say what software you are using or in what format is the file you save when you have made a scan.
Assuming you are scanning a single stamp into a jpg format file, what does the file show as its Properties - Details - Image for the first half dozen entries for Image?

Winston W

WM, SG Specialised specifically mentions that doctor blade flaws are omitted. The hint in the paragraph where that is mentioned is that it that the omitted varieties can vary from the minor to quite spectacular. So I suggest you apply that to doctor blade flaws. Add the supply/demand factor (which I...

Winston W

jcopeland wrote: the fee might relate to a letter posted in the morning.

I have always read late fees in the context of being for the last collection of the day.
But from what I've read of your postings, you have read lots of contemporary material, so do please correct my reading if I am wrong!

Winston W

jcopeland wrote:Could the extra 1d, making the postage 2d, be a late fee?

Always something to consider. But I read the London shield time as 12 noon, so I wouldn't expect the extra 1d to be a late fee.

Winston W

Mark, If you go to this section, https://www.gbps.org.uk/information/downloads/lphg-publications.php, you will find a file on the District Post Cancellations 1840- 1857. That leads me to think both your London District numerals were applied at the Chief Office. The ones attributed to Woodford and Ca...

Winston W

Mark,

The obliteration on the 1d is very well inked, so I suggest the MX on the reverse is an offset (& showing a fainter second offset).

Winston W

Mark,

You do see paper folds from time to time on stamps from the 1d Black onwards. Not common, I'd call them scarce rather than 'rare', which I consider an overused attribute in philately.

Worth a nice premium, certainly when so noticeable like yours.

Winston W

Oyabu50 I’m not sure if you are trying to ascertain where your letter was from or have forgotten to tell us. On your first query, I can’t currently answer. However I am due to receive the British Post Office’s “Notices to the Public” from 1782 to beyond 1790 this month (but from abroad, so no tellin...

Winston W

Ian,

Have you contacted the publishers of the most recent compilation, BCC Midlands Edition?

I see they had ground rules agreed and documented with the late Barrie Jay, although that was back in 2006, for their 2013 publication.

Winston W

Frédéric Welcome to the GBPS and its Board. I have to say that the Board is not much used by members, but thank you for your posting. The nearby port of Le Havre is of interest to me, as transatlantic mail went from there to Britain, or sometimes via Britain to Le Havre, but I don't expect that Honf...

Winston W

S

Many thanks. The contemporary mid-19th century documents can have all sorts of interesting snippets. A labour of love scanning the Rule's pages almost 60 times.

I wonder if our webmaster Maurice could get that in pdf readable format and put the file into the Resources section?

Winston W

Do such anomalies deserve a mention in SG4K?

I'd say no for datestamp errors, but if you find this is a constant anomaly for that office, you could always suggest that to the editor(s).

My two suggestions/comments for QV Vol 1 [Part 1] were acted upon.

Winston W

Ron and Eunice

2 Christmases later, I have a suggestion.

How about the seal being a Missionary Society seal? Can you find a connection with the vicar who wrote the letter and such a society?

Winston W

Bosworth, Is your intention to publish something in the GBJ? How many have you recorded so far? For example I believe of Plate 9 in red there are at least 8 recorded by a specialist. Also, are you a member of what was the Mulready Group (now http://stamp-forums.com)? They have over time had quite a ...

Winston W

Howard,

So long as it is not the stamp removing liquid (refer to scoring chart), that's fine!

Regards, Winston

Winston W

Oh dear, I need more sherry!

Happy Christmas to everyone.

Winston W

WM, QV surface-printed stamps have very fugitive ink, but it never occurred to me that there might be a problem with the coating of early decimal Machins, not just to the stamp being soaked but its companions in the soak. Would floating them face up on the surface of the water, letting the water see...

Winston W

Bob, Postal History is more in demand than it was 40 years ago, plus inflation, so prices will have certainly increased (subject to any large finds of a particular mark since then). What about buying the BCC Midlands Edition published in 2013? That gives suggested 2012 values by value code, for exam...

Winston W

Petrod,
Sorry to apply a note of caution. To my eye your nice block is on very blue paper, rather than within the SG category of lavender-tinted. But I always apply the cautionary note that is with my eyes through my screen via your scan, any or all of which can change the colour perception.

Winston W

I would have thought there would have to be a premium, but unless the date of use for the stamp off cover was earlier than any recorded on cover usage, not much of a premium.

Winston W

Wilding Mad Thanks. Useful warning comparator for a GBPS member to give when he/she gets asked "Should I invest in stamps?" Also of use to be able to give an example from the 1960s of a poor 'investment' when a non-GBPS member is surprised by the worth of their 1970's/1980's stamps/covers.

Winston W

GbBouv2014

If you look here
http://www.gbps.org.uk/publications/jou ... ionery.php
you will see quite a list of articles that have been published.

In there is a book review Collect British Postal Stationery. Huggins & Baker. That is the publication you want.

Winston W

Tim, Commercially produced, but cheaply with what appears to be a stick on label on a plain envelope. My suggestion marketed either for British people interested in a piece of British history (the Domesday Book) that they were taught and read about from a school age, or the unwary investor. In eithe...

Winston W

petrod, Well done and thanks for updating us - research can take a long time - in this case it looks like 11 years!

Winston W

Andy jimw has hit the nail on the head. The positioning of these stamps on the plate can be useful for the plater. For example, stamp CE is positioned a little high. When you compare with the registration ('Imprimatur') sheets that you can view via http://www.gbps.org.uk/information/sources/registra...

Winston W

Mike, SG's mention of this is a bit hidden in the Specialised. In the 16th Edition, page 195 2nd column near top it reads:-
"Wmk Large Garter (W5c), inverted on J57 and J58."
J57/8 are Plate10/11.

Winston W

I see listed in the Penny Blacks section. That was being rather optimistic of the lister - I expect somewhere in the Plate 60s region.

Winston W

Bob,

No wonder you were not at the meeting in London last Saturday.

I suggest through the Programme Secretary, Andy Donaldson FRPSL, programme@gbps.org.uk

Winston W

Winston W

Peter Wood is his GBPS display last Saturday (27 April) of "Ireland: 1839 to the Easter Rising" showed three different hotel cachets from Dublin. I didn't register what they showed. Perhaps if you ask Peter he can assist you?

Winston W

Ralph

The host managed to get the server back working by Tuesday 16th.

Ian's MI site at http://www.maltesex.com/missing_imprimatur/ is by far and away the best internet source for MI images.

Winston W

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Jim, My first thoughts are:- 1. Is it a fake? 2. Is the second crown a mark from the watermark of another stamp that was impressed on it? If a genuine usage then an interesting discovery. I would have thought the paper would have been used on other plates in usage at the same time and appear on stam...

Winston W

I'm no expert in that area, but you may be able to help yourself by using http://www.gbps.org.uk/plating/history.php You will need a better scan - 800 dpi. I expect the one that came through in your question, which is useful to show the stamp generally, is too low resolution for even an expert to gi...

Winston W

Eunice, Re question 1, I would have thought given the regular cross channel steam service then running, it could easily have been privately carried over by a passenger who arrived in London the next day and put it in the post to catch the 4 o'clock afternoon post. You might even be able to give a go...

Winston W

Mike In my view it is a matter of degree, not black and white, for the 10 o'clock roller flaw. Turning to your second stamp, lettered RE, it is possible that yours is Plate 2, not Plate 1b. There can be confusion between the two plates. Both those stamps lettered RE have a reasonable vestige of the ...

Winston W

If you have a keen interest in the more detailed aspects of QV, especially LE, I suggest you consider joining the Mulready group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mulready/info. There was a good recent discussion of bleuté in that group (from 30 August 2018) with over 50 posts that covers your que...

Winston W

1d Black Plate 1b DE from Spink Nissen photos NE ray.JPG The Spink Nissen photo shows the 10 o'clock ray as being relatively strong for Plate 1b, see attached photo. If it were another plate this ray would not be called strong. If that is not enough for you, then if you were lucky enough to own a D...

Winston W

1890 saw the jubilee of the Uniform Penny Post and the sale of a postal stationery item with a throwback to the Mulready.
http://www.gbps.org.uk/displays/jubilee ... heet97.php
I have always assumed that was the reason for caricature reprints in 1890.

Winston W

Eunice and Ron I wonder if (Upper) Grosvenor Place in 1798 was considered 'country'? It was just within the town area in this "Map of London, shewing the BOUNDARIES of the GENERAL and Two Penny Post" of 1830 that you can see from the British Library in the Crace collection of London maps a...

Winston W

Eunice and Ron I'm sure the manuscript writing below the handstruck Penny Post mark is the figure 2. About an inch to the left is a long vertical stroke with what looks like a z through it. That is the figure 1, which has been crossed out, and replaced by the 2. However there are two things I can't ...

Winston W

Mike G To answer your first question. If you look up the LPHG Notebook 74-75 of December 1985 that you can access as a member here:- http://www.gbps.org.uk/information/downloads/files/lphg-notebook/74-75%20-%20Dec%201985.pdf you will see that in Alf Kirk's article "The Manuscript Receivers' Mar...

Winston W

Manfred,

If you have access to Stanley Gibbons Specialised Volume 1 Queen Victoria, the general notes show three pages of the four alphabets.

Some letterings are easy to identify, some less so...

Happy alphabeting.

Regards, Winston

Winston W

Manfred The GBPS webmaster, Maurice Buxton, has provided excellent pages on this as a starter - see http://www.gbps.org.uk/information/po-numbers/ If you want a bit more detail, on the numeral types and much much more on British postmarks in general, then the Stanley Gibbons publication Collect Brit...

Winston W

Tony, Firstly is the pair of the watermark, die, shade etc. of the stamps when first issued? Then are the marginal markings of first issue? Sometimes a person who enhances an item forgets or is ignorant of such basics. I can't answer those questions, but if the answer is yes, then my gut reaction to...

Winston W

You know more about the types than I do, but if that type is of usual scarcity, I would say that it only has curiosity value in the condition that you describe - say 50p in a club book.

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