Please would anybody be able to tell me what Plate No this stamp is and details about the Maltese Cross with a 'dot' in the centre?
Thanks in anticipation,
Richard Hudson.
2d Blue ES14 with Maltese Cross:
Re: 2d Blue ES14 with Maltese Cross:
Not sure about the MC, although it looks a bit like Kilmarnock. The stamp, I would say, is almost certainly Plate 3.
Re: 2d Blue ES14 with Maltese Cross:
Dear Petrod,
Thanks for your help, I read somewhere that dots in MXs could be Moffat, Kilmarnock, Glasgow or Liverpool. So will go with Kilmarnock for now.
Thanks,
Richard
Thanks for your help, I read somewhere that dots in MXs could be Moffat, Kilmarnock, Glasgow or Liverpool. So will go with Kilmarnock for now.
Thanks,
Richard
Re: 2d Blue ES14 with Maltese Cross:
Dear Petrod,
I have found a match in Rockoff and Jackson's Maltese Cross Encyclopedia (Vol 1) and they list it as Liverpool in November 1843.
Thanks for your plating assistance, hope you concur with the images.
I have found a match in Rockoff and Jackson's Maltese Cross Encyclopedia (Vol 1) and they list it as Liverpool in November 1843.
Thanks for your plating assistance, hope you concur with the images.
Re: 2d Blue ES14 with Maltese Cross:
Richard,
The Kilmarnock Special does have a dot in the centre, but yours is not that one.
I think yours is a common cross that could be from anywhere, with the dot being from the pin head, so transient.
The Kilmarnock Special does have a dot in the centre, but yours is not that one.
I think yours is a common cross that could be from anywhere, with the dot being from the pin head, so transient.
Re: 2d Blue ES14 with Maltese Cross:
As I said originally, I am not sure about the MC (don’t pay much attention to them in my own collection), but pretty certain about the plate. I find research into the history of the plates used for the imperforate line-engraved quite enough to be going on with ![🤔](//twemoji.maxcdn.com/2/svg/1f914.svg)