Great Britain Philatelic Society

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Hello Winston Thanks for the prompt response The letter is dated by the writer and by the receiver, and it is the Leith and Edinburgh Penny Post systems, and the catalogue for the other postmarks are relevant to that period. image attached to show the rest of the address panel etc hornadd.jpg Regard...

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We have a letter dated from Leith 14 3 1798 to Edinburgh, which has the LEITH name incompletely stamped in red and the Willcocks catalogue notes that this type was in use only between 1794 and 1795. As can be seen from this image as the first letter L is missing it is not possible to measure this ac...

earsathome

Hello again Barry,
Look forward to that.
E-mail sent to confirm the address.
Regards.
Ron.

earsathome

G'day Barry, Sorry, I did not recognise you :) Glad to hear that you have the notes and books from Robin and that they have found a good home. Thanks for the offer of a scan and I would appreciate that for the sake of curiosity. I did look on line and there is a copy available for something like 20 ...

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Hello from Queensland. I have been collecting KEVIII stamps for half a century or more and have not come across any mention of the errors of watermark. I have not seen the publication you mention by W. Ward but have the handbook by F. Hugh Vallancey (1948) , two GBPS publications King Edward VIII by...

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Isn't it amazing, now you say it, it seems rather obvious. Many thanks indeed for sorting that for us and also for the useful URL for searching for Post Offices, could be very useful. I wonder where the previous owner got that collecting point, not something that could just be dreamed up I would hav...

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Hello All, PrncesRdb.jpg PrncesRd.jpg We have another query for a letter of July 1818, image attached. The mileage mark is P R I N R D S C P A previous owner has explained that this is an abbreviation for PRIN(CES) R(OA)D C(OLLECTION) P(OINT) The mileage is too indistinct to read but it is underline...

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That certainly looks like the five.
Many thanks for that and an interesting display also.
Ron

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Hello All, Checking through an album, I came across photographs that appear to be photographic busts of QEII by Arnold Machin. I got them many years ago and cannot remember who from. I have no information about them and they are not stamped on the reverse with any source details. There are a couple ...

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Hello, I agree with you regarding the image of a collector, as can be seen on this article on our website (non commercial, information only) http://www.earsathome.com/fun.html It is good to see the club days getting back after all the restrictions of Covid etc. I keep up to date with the stamps maga...

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Hello Winston, Thanks for your response and for taking the trouble. The notation was written by the sender and we think you are right about the capital R. As a matter of interest we put the query on another board and this is a summary of the information that came to hand. The ship was named HMS LIFF...

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HMS.jpg We have a letter dated Feb 13th 1814 written by a Lieut R Sargent on board a ship in the Plymouth Sound, but unfortunately we cannot trace this vessel. It looks clear enough and the scan attached looks legible, but there seems to be no such vessel in any of the lists I can find. It looks to...

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Many thanks for that swift and helpful response. We will pass this on to our German contact and I am sure he will be grateful. We really ought to sort out our own material in this area, but I am sure you know how it is. So many stamps, only 24 hours in the day. Appreciate your help. Regards and stay...

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When the definitive stamps were issued with graphite lines, and then phosphor graphite, and subsequently phosphor only – is there any information which would explain whether these ‘treated’ stamps were on general issue, or only issued to the Southampton (and later Norwich) post offices? Presumably t...

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Ah, that's me not understanding it, now all is clear, so many thanks indeed.

Regards
Ron

earsathome

Many thanks for that swift and informative response. Very interesting. The conclusion now is that the only possible end to this is to find the company that had EC 19 as its designated corporate sub post office number. That is quite unlikely unless the company had an illustrated envelope it used and ...

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ec19label.jpg ec19pmk.jpg regcovercyls.jpg Hello All, This rather flamboyant, but to me at least, very attractive cover raises questions. All the rubber hand-stamps clearly read REGISTERED KING ST. B.O. E.C.2 but the registration label reads E.C. 19. What area of London is covered by E.C. 19 ? Desp...

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Hello again All, I had some bookmarked pages from a website which did not show the O coil I was looking for. However, this morning I checked on Google for "GB Stamp Rolls" which gave me the home page of that fantastic resource and for anyone who may be interested this answered my question....

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Can anyone help us track down this coil leader? The scans show two O coil leaders, the first showing the price as £2 0 1 and the second as £2 with the figures 0 and 1 deleted with 3 bars. S.G. 4 Kings Vol 2 14th edition shows a listing for the 0 coil on page 119 with the price shown as £2.0.0. We ca...

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As there were a fair number of views of this query we thought the readers would be interested in what we have found out in the meantime. We contacted Clive Jones who is the Membership Secretary of the Postal History Society and Treasurer of the TPO & Seapost Society, who kindly supplied this sol...

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G’day Ian, Many thanks for your very interesting response. I had not realised that the GBPS had that much input to the S.G. catalogues, but it is certainly sensible. I did not know that the FOR YOU AT YOU error was on six editions and checking my other copies, I find I have the September 1968, Novem...

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loodon.jpg harrisou.jpg youatyou.jpg Hello all, Checking through my Machin booklets, I looked at SG to see what the NP 36a (For You at You) was catalogued at. Having found that, I noticed other varieties on the imprint lines on the bottom of the back pages and this is what I found in relation to it...

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We have a letter dated April 1798 written from Abergavenny to Ludlow in Shropshire. The postal charge is 7, which at that time covered a single letter between 100 and 150 miles. We bought this as part of an auction lot and the previous owner has annotated it like this Quote Abergavenny to Ludlow by ...

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Hello Mike,

Maybe not deliberate, could the clerk have changed all the 'bits' of the cancel but either got interrupted or forgot to change the month?

Just a thought.

Regards
Ron

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highf2.jpg hightpo.jpg Can anyone supply information about this mark please. What I would like to know is departure and arrival points of the route, any stops en route and whether there is anything unusual or interesting about the one scanned. The Highland entry on Page 257 of the S.G. Collect Brit...

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Hello Satman,

Thanks for that information.
Unfortunately, we only have a couple of updates of Robertson as our maritime markings are a bit limited. Could not afford Robertson at the time we were writing things up.
All is grist to our mill though, thanks.
Regards
Ron

earsathome

James,
Many thanks for another swift response.

Unfortunately we don't have A. and H. but now we know what we are looking for we may be able to find it.

Appreciate the help

Regards

Ron.

earsathome

Hello all, Can anyone help with a postmark query? This cover bears the double ring Southampton H.M. Ships dated 1st July 1938 cancellations. This is a bit difficult to see because of the colour of the Coronation stamps. We have the third edition of “Collect British Postmarks – Dr JT Whitney” and the...

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Thanks James,

I checked out the site as soon as you mentioned it and it must have slipped through
my search net.

Regards
Ron

earsathome

Thanks very much for that James.

Glad to know that I had it right.

I hadn't realised there was a Postage Due Study Group (I suppose I should have known, there seems to be a study group for almost everything!

)

I am surprised my Google searches did not come up with that group.

Regards.
Ron.

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Hello All, Attached scan shows two postage due markings and I would like confirmation that the letters I. S. stand for Inland Section and the letter D and H are the initials of the relevant hand-stamp used. I have found it very difficult to garner information on these marks, despite web searches and...

earsathome

Hello James,

Thanks for that quick response which is appreciated.

I had wondered if that would be the case but thought that the relevant departments
would have had their own 'revenue' style stamps for that.

Regards.
Ron

earsathome

Hello All,

Can anyone explain why the 2/6d value Postage Due stamp is inscribed ‘To Pay’
rather than ‘Postage Due’ as on the lower values?

Regards
Ron

earsathome

Hello all, We have a part letter posted in Tavistock and addressed to Mrs Frances at Sir Masseh Lopes Bart. No. 3 Arlington Street St. James London. It has a crowned circle FREE mark dated 16 MY 16 1825. Endorsed at the top with 'Tavistock May fourteen 1825' and at bottom left Free Mafseh Lopes. The...

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Hello again Jim, I had the following from Robin this evening Quote I'm afraid your correspondent was mistaken in assuming the flaw was the SG4K-listed Pb3. That flaw is found on the fifth state of the cylinder slightly to the left. This one is closer to the crown (and the Crown). The flaw illustrate...

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Hi Jim
I have sent your reply to Robin who is 'snowed under' at the moment.
When he has a bit more time I am sure he will be very interested in checking it out.
I would like to know the answer as well of course being a KE8 buff myself.
So I will advise you as soon as we learn anything.
Cheers
Ron

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Hi Jim, If you have been keeping the journals you will find a great article by Robin Restall in Vol. 53 number 2 40. If you cannot lay your hands on it you can download it from the home page listed as The case of the curious coif under Restall Robin. I think he covers just about everything there. Ho...

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Hi all, In the S.G. 4Kings catalogue there is a note after the list of cylinders of the Coronation issue that reads as follows:- Quote It is believed that only 3 sheets were printed from cylinder 4 no dot with the ray flaw corrected. A cylinder block and a vertical corner position strip of 3 showing...

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Hi All, We are writing up a small collection of letters dated from 1794-1840 all concerned with the family of Viscount Sydney, and one of them has this amazing seal - most of the sealed letters we have show the initials, or family crests, or words like “The Grim Reaper” but this one is completely in...

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Thanks for the response Winston,
That's good thinking about the shipping gazette and we will give it a go.
Best wishes.
Eunice and Ron

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Hi all, Can anyone help us with the following:- Letter dated July 4th 1836 from Haute Ville Boulogne, to The Honourable Col. Townshend, 25 Bolton Street Piccadilly. The postmarks are obviously the Twopenny post and the transfer stamp looks to be dated JY 5 4 Eg . This is a mystery, as there does not...

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Hello,
Your image does not appear on the post.
Can you try to load it up again so we can see if we can help
Regards.
Ron.

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Thanks again for that Winston. The map of the London Town area in Alan Robertson’s book is not as detailed as that, so the links you gave are much better for this letter, so thanks for finding them and giving them to us. It looks as though that could be the answer to the 2d charge. We find that many...

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Thanks for this reply Winston We had noted that it was a 1d charge mark, but missed that it had been cancelled, so that does look as if you are right, that the 2 instructional mark was initialled by the person who did it. We checked back on Brumell’s book, and this is the relevant paragraph quote Th...

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Hi All, Any help with the following query would be appreciated. Images attached of one of 3 letters we have addressed to Lord Archibald Hamilton, between 1765 and 1798. The Receiving house stamp of Charing Cross unpaid Penny Post stamp is on the front The Westminster office transfer stamp is on the ...

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G’day all, Does anyone know of a website or other source of information regarding the various sheet markings on the King Edward VIII stamp margins? Stanley Gibbons does mention them though not even the latest 4 Kings covers the subject in any detail. I have done Google searches with all the combinat...

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Hi Mozzerb

Thanks for the suggestion which makes sense.
We could not work out why the address was crossed out as well as the charge.

Presumably officers had accounts running with the regiment and as you suggest the 11d could have been debited to him.

Regards
Ron and Eunice.

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This letter in our collection is dated 12th May 1831 from 26 Portland Square Plymouth, addressed to Lieut Col D MacPherson, Late 78th Foot Bder General etc– (this last line has been crossed out, but not re-directed). It has two circular date stamps, the first for where it was lodged, Plymouth MA 12 ...

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Hello Ton, I thought my suggestion was a bit 'basic' :P I was not sure how much you knew about the subject, but it is obviously a lot more than me! Thanks for the information regarding the rates and though we do not collect telegraphs as such, any information regarding philately is grist to our mill...

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Hi Tom
15 words at 1d per word = 15 pence = 1/3d as per stamp.
Hope that helps.
Ron.

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