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Robinr

Hi Ron,

Thanks for the input. Now we'll wait and see whether anybody else has any cylinder blocks, with and/or without stop.

Meanwhile, apologies for the delay in responding - I was traveling, and then was unable to log in.

Cheers, Robin R.

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Dear All, I have now finished poring over much of an old bag of kiloware of our favourite ephemeral monarch, and have the green and brown done. Anything like a flaw I scan at 400dpi and examine further. As a result, I have a few dozen minor flaws that need to be checked out... more when I've done wi...

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Dear All, Here are a few flaws I found on a bag of ½d green on piece. I have examined them as carefully and thoroughly as possible, and am satisfied that they are all in the printing, and not caused by scratches or other damages found on stamps that have been used. This does not mean they are consta...

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To Stephen Sayers,

Dear Stephen, as the KGVI expert, could you kindly answer the above query for me please? I know it is a query about registered mail, but my interest really is KGVI covers. Thanks a ton,

Robin Restall

Robinr

To Stephen Sayers,

Hi Stephen. As nobody has responded to this query, I'd be most grateful if you could answer, please.

Many thanks,

Robin restall

Robinr

All very helpful, thanks a lot. I'm coming to the end of my questions... I have several used KEVIII penny-ha'pennies on piece, obviously from booklets judging by the perfs. It occurred to me to measure, not the printed stamp, but the height of the whole piece of paper. It surprised me to discover th...

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Hi Other Robin, No sure what you mean by measuring the height of the panes. I just did a bit of measuring... my little 6d booklet is guillotined at 24mm and a couple of regular 6-block booklets at 48mm. I measured some booklet stamps used on cover and found they varied from 23.75 to to 24.6mm. I als...

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Thanks Robin, Thanks for answering! I guess your answer is what I expected. I have one booklet from years ago, and have been wondering about how to show it to advantage. I thought of exploding it and mounting the covers and panes as a set, along with a complete booklet. That little bit of plain buff...

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Thanks for this, Ron, much appreciated. It has been raining very heavily all week here in Caracas, and today looks as though it will be wet again - so I'll dig out that bag and see what I can come up with. As RobinT said on the booklets board, it is easy to fake. Looking at your lovely couple of pan...

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6d booklet (SG BC1) identification dilemma SG have the little two panes of 1½d brown x 2 booklet in their current list, at £65. In my old (1993) SG Four Kings catalogue, the booklet is not listed for price, but the panes (two side-by-side stamps) are listed at £5 each. Regular six-block panes are pr...

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Well, nobody responded to that lot. Here's a very simple question - from somebody who lives in Venezuela and never sees a stamp show, ever! What is the most effective and interesting way to display a booklet on a sheet? Is a complete, but exploded booklet still respected as a booklet, or as a set of...

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6d booklet (SG BC1) identification dilemma SG have the little two panes of 11/2d brown x 2 booklet in their current list, at and #321;65. In my old (1993) SG Four Kings catalogue, the booklet is not listed for price, but the panes (two side-by-side stamps) are listed at and #321;5 each. Regular six-...

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Amazing! I really understand RobinT's frustration and outbursts. My first reaction to this is that nobody has an SG Four Kings they could pick up and look at to answer my simple question. Then I thought, well, of the more than 700 members who are listed as discussion boarders, nobody cares about KGV...

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Hey Ron, Surely the "Cyprus" is the clue. Have you tried the Cyprus High Commissioner's office (or, excuse me, if Cyprus is an independent country, the embassy?). There's usually somebody in these places that has the job of responding to cultural issues... the Cultural attache? Good luck, ...

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Dear Asmodeus, As a recent newcomer to the discussion board, I'm browsing back contributions and finding much of interest - but a very sad lack of response to queries like this one of yours. The scan is excellent, and seeing the fibres on the breaks of the perfs and other details so well is fascinat...

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Dear All,

In (finally) getting down to sorting out my cylinder blocks I find that there appears to be two states for this cylinder. As can be seen on the attached, there is a weak and uneven control, and a stronger, clear and even control.

Any comments will be most welcome.

Robin R.

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Dear All, While browsing a handful of ½d greens, I noticed that the light outlining the forepart of the king's head varied. I scanned and enlarged and finally selected four stamps representative of the range.- from the left, there is no lighting along the edge, then it gradually increases until the ...

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Dear All, I was browsing a bag of ½d greens on pieces this afternoon and couldn't help noticing the variation in colour from time to time. I have not done a strict comparison examination of my cylinder blocks, but I did notice a similar difference between the colour of a sheet of 7 and sheets of 25 ...

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Hi RobinT, Thanks for the response; you have filled out my tentative understanding nicely - but of course set the scene for more enquiries! I found references in my old notes last night suggesting a real state of caveat emptor when it comes to CI usage. I'd guess there must be a good living in just ...

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Apologies. The original was "not a supported image", but I have now managed to convert it to jpeg. Robin

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Disappointing response (nil) despite being posted in QV as well. Since posting the original query, I found the attached. It had been sent to me about 25 years ago. Unfortunately it is too low resolution to be used, and I have no notes for it. I hope it is of sufficient interest for somebody to comme...

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Jake, Ray and all, Thanks for the footnote, Jake! After 20 years being deeply immersed in producing field guides for the birds of northern South America - including painting more than 7000 birds - I have come back to life and found my feet with the GVI book. I'm now working 50/50 on the two differen...

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Dear RobinT and Ray, and others interested in this thread, Everybody is making good points, in essence everybody is in the same boat pointed in the same direction, but the oars are all mixed up. It seems to me that the real issue here is how to ensure the continuing health of a very broad-based hobb...

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Dear RobinT, Well it WAS a rant! But who cares? It was fun and does seem to have provoked some exchanges - which obviously was your intent. My interest in Channel Islands stamps stems from the KGVI covers I managed to collect in the past, and which I'm now re-discovering. I have a nice piece with a ...

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Dear robinT, I'm interested in Channel Island stamps, and the use of regular British (English?) stamps used on the islands, particularly KEVIII and KGVI. But I cannot find the message you seem to refer to. Or do you mean the bibful about competitions? That is certainly provocative but I'm not sure w...

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To RobinT,

Have you done anything on KE8 booklets?

Guaranteed to read that!

RobinR

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Hmmm, my address was deleted. I wonder if that was intentional? If this fails, I'll accept it as policy and give up. robinrestall@gmail.com

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To Mozzerb, Might I ask you a question off site? If so, let me know at Cheers, Robin

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Thanks, Mozz. I'll guess you're spot on. An interesting item, but not exactly exhibition-shattering! Cheers, Robin

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Dear Registered Mail experts, As I understand it, 'Posted out of course' means that somebody has crossed a cover with blue lines to register a letter, affixed the correct value postage stamps, but dropped the letter in a post box - instead of being handed over to the post office person - presumably ...

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Hi Mozzerb, thanks for your response! That is what I figured. What was unsaid is that - sometime in the distant past! - I bought a blind bundle of "plain fdc" for the 1937 Coronation. It contained about 100 of these covers, all addressed in the same hand to the same person, hand written in...

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Mozzerb and others, Here's a mystery - for me at least - this cover appears to have been used and delivered, presumably to the head office of Southern Railway. But does the parcel payment receipt mean it was handed in direct to the railway, and accepted as a parcel? The heavy staple holes at the top...

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Dear Registered Mail experts, As I understand it, 'Posted out of course' means that somebody has crossed a cover with blue lines to register a letter, affixed the correct value postage stamps, but dropped the letter in a post box - instead of being handed over to the post office person - presumably ...

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Thanks Mozz - another enlightenment! I didn't realize I'd spent such a sheltered life! Cheers, Robin

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Dear Tony, Jim and all, Very interesting thread! I noticed a dealer's list pricing these items at well over £100 recently. Covers used and innocently accepted by a sorting office would probably be quite expensive! What puzzles me is why they are called forgeries. Is there something implicit in the t...

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Dear All, The attached cover has a block of four stamps that went on sale in Britain on the 13th of May, 1937, but it appears to be cancelled in Delaware, USA, on the 14th of May - and bears the cachet, "Returned for postage". The actual stamps are not directly cancelled, but the pointed o...

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Dear All, In sorting through some old covers this morning I came across the attached, cancelled at 12:15am (not 12:45 as in the thread - apologies). For me, this means a quarter past twelve in the morning, ie, 15 minutes after midnight. Later, I picked up another cover for the same day, 13th May, 19...

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Dear All, I understand that triangle cancellations were used for mailing circulars and simple printed matter, with the envelope being unsealed. I have two examples of the same envelope with the same triangular mark, one is attached. What bemuses me is that there is no way to tell when the item was p...

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1255_1.jpg Dear All, There is a thread on double impression running on the KVIII postings that reminded me of something I had stored away that I just found: "The process of making the transfer of the negative onto the cylinder is a very delicate...

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Dear All,

I just found an article from 1958 about this in KGVI stamps, and will post full details there...

Robin R.

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Dear All, This morning I came across a price list from a well-known dealer that I received in 1990, and one item caught my eye. It read, "1937 CORONATION 1 1/2d VARIETY - "MISSING CONTROL LETTER A", possibly just a trace showing in a fine mint corner block of 6" The price was £18...

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Hmmm, am I seeing shadows, or are there two kinds of "Double impression"? From what I've seen there appears to be: a) two images on the plate/cylinder, from a flaw when the interneg was put together. This would give a constant flaw and something as dramatic as the one illustrated in the ar...

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Nogwig, Many thanks. No, I hadn't seen them. My study of the booklets has been cursory so far, but I can see it has a promising future. Interesting that two of the three are marginal stamps. About 25 years ago, Derek Worboys offered me a small set of partial whole sheet reconstructions of booklets o...

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Dear Mike, I finally figured out how to use the computer to tell differences in colour. The following is superficial, but is certainly encouraging... I tested the blue beneath the price tablet, beneath the crown, and on the side of the king's nose, plotting each probe, so there are four spots for ea...

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Hi Denis, I read your message on two threads and noted that nobody responded. In a way I guess its obvious why, because everybody would say, simply, yes. But your question raises a very interesting matter... well, two I think. The first is if broken down booklets fetch a much better prices when sold...

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http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1240_1.jpg http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/1240_2.jpg Dear All, I have two seemingly identical positional blocks (3x3) of the ha'penny pale green in which the centre stamp (R19/8) shows a good flaw on the right side fleur de lys. Loo...

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Hi Harvey, Your comment about the character of the perforations indicating a possible coil source made me think also about stamps from booklet panes. I opened a bag of about 1,500 KE8 stamps on pieces yesterday - bought about 35 years ago! - and started looking at them with fresh eyes. I think I saw...

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Hi Ron, Actually the definition of dry print is an image printed with an ink with low moisture content. It is a definite and deliberate technique used in printing stamps (and other things) that reduces shrinkage and gives a cleaner, sharper image. But in our specific context, it has to mean simply t...

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Dear All, I'm looking for a good visual reference of the ivory head referred to in Birch. He writes (P.36), "Several specimens have been found showing a perfect 'Ivory head' design on the reverse side of the stamp. Quite comparable with same variety in 1840-41 issues". If anybody has one, ...

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Dear All, Just arrived at booklet panes with KEVIII (they don't come any more newcomer than that!), and am impressed that there is no mention of a single error/flaw or variety that I can see. I'd guess it was impossible for a cylinder to be utterly unblemished, and surly there are some rrors somewhe...

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