Great Britain Philatelic Society

robinT

I have recently seen messages stating interest in booklets - but without details. Specialised booklet collection is basically a thing of the past when carried out in the way that members of the GBDSBC used to do it and still is assiduously practised by the few remaining members of MBPC. I have alway...

robinT

Well you have opened a can of worms! What you display is what you want others to see/know/admire etc. etc....... Just showing one EVIII booklet can be intriguing if you show Covers in and out Panes with varying perfs, cyl.nos. I1/2V cuts top and bottom Flaws!!! However, normally hat little booklet w...

robinT

From one who has split up more books than most Specialist single stamp collectors need many single stamps from panes, invariably their only source. Those who collect the panes do not, usually, want more than one. Panes are need in their entireity to show perf types, even paper, coating and gum chang...

robinT

robinT

If a collector was REALLY serious, they would measure the height of the panes!!!! This particularly applies to those woth I1/2V cuts, which should have torn edges where the margins were removed. faking reduces the height there. On the other hand taking a pair of stamps and cutting top and bottom als...

robinT

Look at the printing figures and consider how few booklet collectors there are. Common booklets and their contained stamps are not even being given away now!

robinT

It reached me but to me composing is easy, but not always polite Thus it annoys me when my computor or the website fail to do what I have instructed. In would not really want to go to all that trouble - when it should be as easy as a conversation - and just like a conversation so much hot air to dis...

robinT

Hi All the panes of two came from the first two columns of standard sheets. These were stitched into the covers and then cut to size, with a guillotine Some of them do actually have cyl. nos. on - those at the top middle and bottoms also show the I 1/2V cuts. The top and bottom panes also are CTTT r...

robinT

Hi fellow Robin

The answer is you cannot be certain unless you obtain a complete booklet.
Although the panes are CTCT(m), these can be faked quite easily.

Sorry

RobinT

robinT

This website is faulty

Spent half an hour leaving a new subject only to be told I was not logged in
Naturally when I did so all my message had been deleted

Why should this happen a useless webmaster?

robinT

Those who study booklets will realise that Harrison were were the premier printers of booklets and their contained stamps from the time photogravure was introduced. Their influence lasted a long time and although they started badly - they knew insufficient about the process they had taken on - they ...

robinT

Hi fellow Robin Just so! Your request regarding info on the second world war functioning of the PO in the islands can be best answered at length by others. However a potted answer is that the Germans took over the existing system and allowed it to continue. The biggest problem was not with the syste...

robinT

There was no message and you are the first to query it!!!! EVIII stamps on FDC cancelled with Guernsey or Jersey cancels are quite common. GVI are not common, but mainly were used on postcards from the islands. FDC are common but higher values are not. Many Commem stamps exist on cover from this era...

robinT

No interest no message

Did anyone notice?

robinT

Hi Steve I regret the delay in answering you post Actually I did not expect any reply When I wrote my book no one wanted to know about my findings. Principally because if any of it were true there would have to be a huge re-write of Machin history and catalogues I did enter it in a stampex competiti...

robinT

Specialisation has gone too far and those who flocked to the ranks are now dying off or dropping out. Machins and booklets in particular. The problem always is that the majority want the minority to work and inform them of their findings. This of course affects competitions and exhibitions - the few...

robinT

Cynical maybe but factual. Why should I pay to show my material? Of course - exhibitions are asked for and more often than not expenses offered. My hobby has given me much satisfaction - esp. when at odds with DM. But now I can not really afford it and that is what makes me mad Each to his own - wel...

robinT

Stamp collection is for fools! Myself included We pay exhorbitant prices for bits of sticky paper - then pay hundreds more to have the privalege of showing them to others who have little or no interest. A ridiculous system that only fools would put up with Competitions are a waste of time I know i'v...

robinT

Seeing the display of Machins on the Display archive reminds me of why I stopped collecting them - apart from the prices! The beginning is the place to start a discussion of anything. At the beginning Harrison were in a mess, regarding the production of a coating sufficiently white to suit Arnold Ma...

robinT

The 'silver' test extensively referred to by SG is a flawed conception. ANY COATING WHICH CONTAINS AN ABRASIVE SUBSTANCE _ NOT JUST CHALK _ WILL PRODUCE A BLACK LINE (this is the coating on the silver item, caused by a reaction with oxygen, being removed. As far as paper coatings are concerned a mag...

robinT

A little serious thought about these matters is usually what is needed

Of course the stitched side would go to the outlet first - it would reduce the likelyhood of a jam, caused by the booklet opening in the machine - in spite of the weight on top of the pile!

robinT

Hi Mike As I am sure you know the colour is achieved using the dye Rhodamine B. This produces many variations in colour and all GB stamps containing it are of varying shades. If you want to collect shades in spite of the problems involved a study using Ultra Violet light is recommended. The variable...

robinT

Sorry No

Its trial and error - really only for old retired men/women who have nothing better to do!

robinT

Ahhh!

How was I to know you lived in such a better area!

Strangely if you perservere you will find sources for most material on the internet

Just bought an interesting collection of GB used in Channel Islands from Uraguay!!!!!!

robinT

Like many facets of collecting - your interests are in a small minority - maybe of just One! I found that out Those who join Societies want to discuss and/or promote their interests. Dealers will only deal in what sells You will have to talk to dealers, face to face - you may be suprised at what you...

robinT

At the end of the day those who exhibit, including myself, do so with the knowledge of, what they see as, the judging imperfections. We specialists know Tony's exibits, indeed his whole collection requires the highest commendation - but as I said - I would not award him the highest accolade because ...

robinT

For those who are interested in booklets; a) Regional stamps have long formed part of a GB collection; they still should b) the Channel Islands are a Region of the British Isles Why is it that their independantly produced stamps are no longer of interest to the GB collector? I can identify all 48 bo...

robinT

I spent a long time studying the flaws on all (well as many as I could get hold of) booklet covers and interleaves. Nobody was interested and the whole has been disposed of. I have now done a similar study on the first issue of Guernsey booklets. I am now able to identify all the stamps and covers f...

robinT

I wrote a long answer to the article by Tony Walker and the website refuses to accept it. I will summerise Tony Judges ignorance will prevent you from obtaining the highest awards - they show their ignorance every time a serious Machin exhibit comes up. However they reflect the opinion of philatelis...

robinT

PS
If all else fails speak to Ian Harvey

robinT

Hi john If you are into stitched booklets per se - the Society publishes a series of Booklets about - youve guesed it booklets Its called 'British Stamp Booklets, by Jean Alexander and leonard Newbery. I have a second hand copy - well used you can have cheaply if you dont want to push the boat out. ...

robinT

this web site is as bad as anything else seen on the net there is absolutely no point in someone spending hours 'producing and maintaining a site - if no one uses it. Specialised collecting, esp. of stamps is on a huge downturn. Where are the members of what was the GBSBSC? Where are those who speci...

robinT

message to Those interested
Tony Walker has a good collection of Coil Leaders
Bearing in mind the general standard of his collection - it will be good!
RobinT

robinT

As an old man not used to modern technology - I make many mistakes!!!!! Anyone who wants my duplicates can have them BUT - still the question remains. I have a stamp with two differing opinions and apparently no one else to turn to. I have long since given up on Machins - lack of money and lack of i...

robinT

I was referring to that which is already rare - but not necessarily identified by many/any!!!! In Sterling Machins I confirmed that a number of items I had were definitely rare - but no one would confirm this so they have gone to ????? I still have a stamp which I and Deegam think is a 6d. coil stam...

robinT

I was a collector of sterling machins - however long since gone
Tony Walker has a good collection of coil leaders - dont know how far into present they go

Have you consulted Deegams books etc?

If I can help let me know

I have the only 6d. coil stamp missing phosphor!!!!! Want to buy it??????????

robinT

Does any one out there care about modern GB?

Where are the boundaries now?

No one will stick their neck out to identify possible rarities and reliance on dealers is out of the question nowadays.

robinT

95% of stamps can have their sources identified by reference to a - the direction of printing b - cut or torn edges Deegam covers this extensively It can be applied to booklet stamps from all over the world - the extra information you require is the way the primary sheet - from which the booklets wa...

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