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- Sat Sep 18, 2021 3:18 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Insurance of stamp collections
- Replies: 2
- Views: 25576
Re: Insurance of stamp collections
Thanks AS 1961 for your response. I have been through a similar thought process, and in addition have scans tucked away elsewhere. Although this might increase the likelihood of tracing the thieves or their fences, villains have a habit of damaging or destroying things they regard as too risky to fe...
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:15 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Books for Sale
- Replies: 11
- Views: 50184
Re: Books for Sale
Thanks for reply I did not receive the email - so it looks as if you are plagued with black holes that swallow library books and emails alike. However, should the book turn up, please get in touch and I will endeavor to buy it before it disappears again !
- Mon Jan 14, 2019 2:25 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Books for Sale
- Replies: 11
- Views: 50184
Re: Books for Sale
Re Lee Vol 1 now marked as sold
I sent the email, but it appears to have got lost in cyberspace
Why not simply tell me the price, including postage and packing, on this forum, and the address to send a cheque to ? I will of course send the destination address with my cheque
I sent the email, but it appears to have got lost in cyberspace
Why not simply tell me the price, including postage and packing, on this forum, and the address to send a cheque to ? I will of course send the destination address with my cheque
- Mon Dec 17, 2018 11:14 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Books for Sale
- Replies: 11
- Views: 50184
Re: Books for Sale
I wish to purchase the following if still available :- LEE, R. A. G. Queen Victoria. A Specialised Study of the 1881 One Penny Lilac. Part 1. Frame Damage. London: The Great Britain Philatelic Society, 1963. 71 pp. £15.00 Please email (or PM) price inclusive of p&p and where to send cheque or ca...
- Mon Oct 22, 2018 10:05 pm
- Forum: Line-Engraved
- Topic: Bleute paper
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16937
Re: Bleute paper
Thank you Winston, I have taken your advice, and found many are thinking as I was, that, particularly on Ebay, there is a strong element of "the emperor's new clothes" (blue-dyed in this case) in many "bleute " blacks offered for sale As regards REAL bleute paper " The bluin...
- Mon Oct 15, 2018 1:47 pm
- Forum: Line-Engraved
- Topic: Bleute paper
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16937
Bleute paper
Just what is it ? Stanley Gibbons (Q Vic Specialised Catalogue) list each of the first 8 plates as having a variety "on bleute paper" but omit to describe it. The erudite Seymour (Postage Stamps of Gt Britain Vol I) does not mention it as such - but refers to "blued paper", and e...
- Sat Dec 09, 2017 6:59 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Insurance of stamp collections
- Replies: 2
- Views: 25576
Insurance of stamp collections
Yesterday I received a reminder that the annual premium re my stamp and cover collection is due shortly. True to form, just like one's household insurance and car insurance, there is an above-inflation increase in premium "due to increased costs" Hmmm, I have just demonstrated over the las...
- Fri Apr 08, 2016 12:56 pm
- Forum: Postal Markings
- Topic: Newspaper Branch
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11245
Re: Newspaper Branch
Just come across this thread - a year later ! I don't think there is necessarily a clear-cut reason for the use of the NPB stamp. The newspaper branch produced many such and similar in the early 1870s, and as the years went by these were used more or less indiscriminately. Some clerks were meticulou...
- Wed Jan 07, 2015 3:49 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: Books by John Parmenter
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12889
Re: Books by John Parmenter
Yes, thanks, I have some of themrussell1307 wrote:I assume you are aware that John Parmenter revised all his Barred Numeral Cancellation books (the counties not London) during 2013?
- Tue Jan 06, 2015 8:39 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: Books by John Parmenter
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12889
Books by John Parmenter
I am trying to locate and purchase the following books by Parmenter --- Barred Numeral Cancellations Volume 6 - England Warwickshire to Yorkshire, First Update. London, 1991. --- GB Used Abroad: Cancellations and Postal Markings. Beckenham: The Postal History Society, 1993. 344pp. --- Barred Numeral...
- Sun May 25, 2014 7:15 pm
- Forum: Line-Engraved
- Topic: 1841 2d Blue on thin paper
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10659
Re: 1841 2d Blue on thin paper
Hi, Can anybody, please, point me in the direction of information on 2d Blue Plate 3 being printed on thin paper? There is a reference to Perkins Bacon obtaining thinner paper "for experimental use" from Mr Stacey Wise of Rush Mills, Northampton in late 1840 (216 sheets "thinner than...
- Mon Dec 02, 2013 12:10 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Perfins
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20427
Re: Perfins
Many thanks, at the moment I just drop all perfins in a large box labelled "perfins" and promise myself I will get to grips with the growing accumulation when I have the rest of my GB collection in order. This year my enthusiasm has meant that accumulation of fresh GB material has run ahea...
- Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:53 pm
- Forum: Pre-Stamp
- Topic: 18th & early 19th Century Mail with "Speed" or "With Speed"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13460
Re: 18th & early 19th Century Mail with "Speed" or "With Speed"
To quote Sir Walter Scott :- “There was then a custom, not yet wholly obsolete, of causing a letter from one town to another, perhaps within the distance of thirty miles, perform a circuit of two hundred miles before delivery, which had the combined advantage of airing the epistle thoroughly, of add...
- Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:39 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Perfins
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20427
Re: Perfins
Thanks Andy and others - exactly the info I needed
- Wed Sep 25, 2013 6:15 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Excellent job on the New Forum
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9240
Re: Excellent job on the New Forum
Agreed, just logged in under the new system.
- Wed Jul 24, 2013 7:00 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: FPO
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13481
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FPO 16 was used in Jerusalem from 1-10-1936 until 7-1-37 according to Proud (History of British Army Postal Services) It was preceded by a long argument with the Palestinians (sounds familiar?) over the use of British Postage stamps Off on holiday tomorrow until Aug 3, but am happy to pursue this fu...
- Wed May 01, 2013 7:10 pm
- Forum: Pre-Stamp
- Topic: "Copy" on 1838 letter
- Replies: 5
- Views: 16359
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No apologies needed mozzerb
I was busy deleting the duplicates myself, probably at the same time as you!
I must learn to be more patient after pressing the "add message" button !
I was busy deleting the duplicates myself, probably at the same time as you!
I must learn to be more patient after pressing the "add message" button !
- Tue May 08, 2012 7:00 pm
- Forum: Postal Markings
- Topic: "Lower Walmer" Squared Circle
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8119
"Lower Walmer" Squared Circle
Amongst a collection of Edward VII halfpenny stamps on postcards I have a squared circle postmark, for Lower Walmer, dated April 26 1906. A squared circle Lower Walmer is not listed in the recent SG "Collect British Postmarks", nor is it my copy of Cohen, although I do not have the supplem...
- Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:00 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Amusing cds error
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12473
Transfer from previous board: original post 1990
Nice cover.
From Buxton to Bakewell. A twist on John Ruskin's comment on the construction of the Midland Railway through the Peak District "..now every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton."
Unless he is a postman lost in space-time......
From Buxton to Bakewell. A twist on John Ruskin's comment on the construction of the Midland Railway through the Peak District "..now every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton."
Unless he is a postman lost in space-time......
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:05 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Amusing cds error
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12473
Transfer from previous board: original post 1967
Quote, Tony Finch "He reminded me to write to our mutual friend, Lord Winchester, and this I did, taking the letter to the post office for which I was required to pay the sum of twenty two pence and affix a small label upon the envelope."
Excellent !
Provenance is all.......
Excellent !
Provenance is all.......
- Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:00 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Amusing cds error
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12473
Amusing cds error
Apparently predates the coronation of Charles II and possibly the Bishop mark also.
- Sat Sep 03, 2011 7:10 pm
- Forum: Pre-Stamp
- Topic: Uckfield (East Sussex) Receiving Houses
- Replies: 5
- Views: 15655
Transfer from previous board: original post 1848
Thanks Ron and Eunice As you say, local knowledge. The OS map of 1813 seems to confirm that the then road from Ripe to Lewes was easier (and shorter) than that to Uckfield. However, looking at a website re the history of Ripe yields the information that the local post went through "Hurst-Green&...
- Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:00 pm
- Forum: Pre-Stamp
- Topic: Uckfield (East Sussex) Receiving Houses
- Replies: 5
- Views: 15655
Transfer from previous board: original post 1841
Many thanks Ron and Eunice. Yes, I found the reference in Oxley also. Why a letter written in Ripe should go through Uckfield is in itself strange. Ripe isn't very near any of the ROs listed, in fact in 1823, if one were in Ripe, it would be easier to get to Lewes by travelling west along the road a...
- Sun Aug 28, 2011 7:00 pm
- Forum: Pre-Stamp
- Topic: Uckfield (East Sussex) Receiving Houses
- Replies: 5
- Views: 15655
Uckfield (East Sussex) Receiving Houses
I have an 1823 entire with a blue "Uckfield Penny Post" (County Catalogue SX 1236) backstamp, and a type 53 (ie boxed) RH stamp "No 1" in black on the front. The letter was written from Ripe (a village a few miles SE of Uckfield) Does anyone know if Ripe was a receiving house for...
- Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:00 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Detection of watermarks on cover
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16290
Transfer from previous board: original post 1830
Thanks, I will keep a look out on eBay, as £70-£300 for the alternative seems too much Interested in what you say re the Signoscope. Bought one years ago. The one thing I found infuriating was the Heath Robinson connecting lead. The electrical connections were bad, so that the light kept flickering....
- Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:00 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Detection of watermarks on cover
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16290
Detection of watermarks on cover
Dauwalders used to advertise a "Morley Bright ROLLATECTOR" As a collector of Victorian covers, I thought how nice it would be if I could detect an inverted watermark or three amongst my collection! Accordingly I visited Dauwalders but was informed the manufacturing company had changed hand...
- Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:10 pm
- Forum: Line-Engraved
- Topic: Odd Blue-grey cancellation on Plate 56 Die 1
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9689
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Many thanks - I can see it now from your enhanced image - what I thought was a corner of a London-style internal diamond is in fact the figure "7"
- Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:00 pm
- Forum: Line-Engraved
- Topic: Odd Blue-grey cancellation on Plate 56 Die 1
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9689
Odd Blue-grey cancellation on Plate 56 Die 1
Could someone please help with identification of a cancellation? This is a blue-grey barred oval with what appears to be a lined diamond inside. The odd thing is that the long axis of the diamond does not line up with either of the axes of the oval. I did wonder if it was a double impression. Unfort...
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 7:00 pm
- Forum: Line-Engraved
- Topic: Laying down of early plates
- Replies: 0
- Views: 9021
Laying down of early plates
In Stanley Gibbons GB Vol 1 Queen Victoria, on p34 of the ninth edition, we are given details of how plates are laid down. I quote "order of laying down was not always the same but generally speaking was in vertical columns ....numerous exceptions, such as plates 2,7 and 8, which as is shown by...
- Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:05 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Perfins
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20427
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Ah, found it as http://www.angelfire.com/pr/perfinsoc/index.html
Thanks for putting me on the right path!
Thanks for putting me on the right path!
- Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:00 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Perfins
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20427
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Thanks, Mike,but clicking on that link brings up a message that the page does not exist, and "Please report this dead link"
I will try a few variants on that link
I will try a few variants on that link
- Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:20 pm
- Forum: King Edward VII
- Topic: 5d. missing colour?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 25640
Transfer from previous board: original post 643
Another explanation might be that exposure to UV light (ie strong sunlight) has bleached out the colour.
Some dyes are more susceptible to such bleaching than others.
Somebody somewhere must have conducted experiments on those lines.
Some dyes are more susceptible to such bleaching than others.
Somebody somewhere must have conducted experiments on those lines.
- Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:05 pm
- Forum: King Edward VII
- Topic: 5d. missing colour?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 25640
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If you look closely, there are faint impressions of the tablet - I wondered if it was an absence of ink on the roller rather than a washout?
- Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:00 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Perfins
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20427
Perfins
Could somebody direct me to a book /article /website that gives a definitive account of British perfins please?
- Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:00 pm
- Forum: King Edward VII
- Topic: 5d. missing colour?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 25640
Transfer from previous board: original post 639
http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/639_1.jpg I too have such a stamp, which turned up in a "job lot" It is unfranked (but lacks original gum), badly creased, but otherwise whole. I too was puzzled, as the usual effect of water damage on this issue is to wash out the purple a...
- Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:00 pm
- Forum: Surface Printed
- Topic: Possible frame break in 1d lilac
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13634
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Thanks Mike - I have ordered Part II, and no doubt Bill Barrel will find a Part 1 for me eventually.
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:15 pm
- Forum: Surface Printed
- Topic: Possible frame break in 1d lilac
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13634
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Thanks Russell - will look out for Lee's book - I'm on a fairly steep learning curve since I joined GBPS!
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:05 pm
- Forum: Surface Printed
- Topic: Possible frame break in 1d lilac
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13634
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As the system doesn't seem to like Imageshack, try this one
- Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:00 pm
- Forum: Surface Printed
- Topic: Possible frame break in 1d lilac
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13634
Possible frame break in 1d lilac
I was checking over about a hundred 1d lilacs I have accumulated, searching for inverted watermark K8d and frame breaks K8j and K8k. Didn't find any, but came across the following apparent breaks in the NW corner of one stamp. It does appear to be a genuine frame break, as the corner between the two...