Great Britain Philatelic Society

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.

Not sure about the MC, although it looks a bit like Kilmarnock. The stamp, I would say, is almost certainly Plate 3.

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

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.

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.

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