Great Britain Philatelic Society

UPDATE 18TH MARCH 2020 Due to the Coronavirus situation, both London 2020 and this dinner will unfortunately not take place. For those who have already paid for the dinner, it is hoped that it will be possible to hold it at a later date (in conjunction with the next Stampex to go ahead). ----------...

This topic came up on Stampboards a few years back -- to my surprise it turned out to be a more complicated situation than I'd realised:

https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=40785

Hi Peter -- I moved this topic from "Postal Stationery" to "Postal Markings", slip of the mouse presumably. :) As for the question, I suspect the answer is an unsatisfactory "it sort of grew up over time". David Robinson in "For the Port & Carriage of Letters&q...

UPDATE 17TH MARCH 2020 Due to the Coronavirus situation, this meeting has unfortunately had to be cancelled. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For details of the programme of this meeting and a booking form see the PDF attachments to this po...

Russell -- if that's the one I'm thinking of, wasn't it a Robson Lowe in-house production? If so we'd need permission to digitise it, and I haven't a clue who would own the copyright now.

Firstly, we are very sorry to hear that our sister society in the US has had to close its philatelic doors due to "lack of new hands to the pump". Having been made aware of these administrative problems earlier in the year, the Council of the GBPS has been anxious - as have been the office...

GBPS NORTH EAST REGIONAL GROUP: DISPLAY by GT!! There will be an open meeting for collectors of GB philately and postal history, at the Cavendish Auction Rooms, 153 London Road, Derby, DE1 2SY on Sat 19 October 2019. The venue is no more than 5 minutes walk from Derby railway station, but also has ...

Unfortunately, due to unavoidable circumstances Richard Farman will not be able to present his display of "Napoleonic Prisoners of War" at the meeting on 12th October at the new RPSL premises at 15 Abchurch Lane. The display will be rescheduled for a later date. Instead, the morning sessio...

Following the successful lectures at Guildhall Library in 2017, an annual lecture following their format was created. The History lectures will focus on the lives and careers of members of the Stationers' Company. Waterlows was founded in 1810 by James Waterlow, initially producing lithographic cop...

Our AGM at the Dorchester Hotel on 22nd June 2019 is coming with lunch in the form of a buffet provided free of charge courtesy of the RPSL (menu below). If you are planning on coming to the meeting and want to partake of the buffet, it would be a great help if you could let Andy Donaldson know in a...

wesel.jpg Every year since 2009 philatelists and postal historians from all over Europe (in fact from all over the world since 2015) have met in early October for a weekend in different places in Germany. This year we meet in Wesel which is situated about 60 kilometers from Düsseldorf very near to ...

Belated answer (sorry): as I understand it, it was a "machine" that was fitted with unusually small datestamps, either on their own, or more usually part of a duplex. With "machine" being a bit of a grand term for what was basically a hand-operated gadget that automatically inked...

Advance Notice - 22 June 2019 AGM Meeting at the Dorchester Hotel As most of you will be well aware the Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) is moving premises next year and work is going full steam ahead to get the new building ready for occupation during the middle part of 2019. Indeed, if all ...

GB COLLECTORS GROUP, NORTH EAST There will be an open meeting for collectors of GB philately and postal history, at the Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne, Neville Street, NE1 5DH on Saturday 16 March 2019, organised by Peter Chadwick. There is a £20 charge to cover room hire, food and drink....

A recently added page aims to list changes made to the site, together with the dates they were made, so that you can see if anything has been added since the last time you looked. It generally does not include background coding changes, or tweaks such as the correction of minor typos or adding a new...

The "L.T.R." on OHMS items usually stands for "Land Tax Registry". The franking signature is Francis Freeling, the Post Office Secretary -- he seems to have ended up having to sign a lot of OHMS letters that had nothing in particular to do with the Post Office, but I'm not sure w...

Done. It should hopefully work with any browser (although different browsers may use different terms for things, unfortunately).

Hi lkfman -- "Postal Markings" isn't the obvious forum for this.

I can move it to the sales forum if you like?

Just to note that there are now quite a number of PO Guides available for download on the GBPS site (including the 1867 one, as it happens):

http://www.gbps.org.uk/downloads/postal-directories.php

The main one is the set of 13 volumes produced over a period of time by Clive Smith (5 volumes in the 1980s, a very long gap, then the rest). Unfortunately they're out of print now and hard to get second hand, especially the later volumes. I think there's a version on CD -- or there was at least tal...

A question asked on behalf of Rainer Fuchs: I am looking for some information on a GB Overland Mail label issued by British Post in 1926/28. The label in question is the red Label of which i have a complete sheet, see scan attached and has the number P.696 in bottom left corner, The transcript of Br...

1. Introduction These are the current rules for the GBPS Trading Forums. The GBPS Council would prefer to act in a "hands off" manner and let members get on with it, so we've tried to make the rules as flexible as possible -- they can be summarised as "use common sense and play fair ...

IIRC volume 3 of the Rockoff & Jackson books on the Maltese Cross have a listing of known examples of town datestamps being used as cancellers. (That includes a lot of non-Westcountry ones though. AFAIK the idea of an official "Wessex cancellation experiment" seems to be one of those p...

Addendum: I remembered that George King's list of Horizon label codes was in Newsletter 355 recently -- here it is: horizon-labels.jpg So "1L" refers just to Letter not Large Letter, which makes it very likely that the 74p label was in fact for the Recorded Delivery fee, added when the sen...

Ah, that puts a slightly different spin on it -- that's not a counter handstamp, it's a rubber datestamp used in the sorting office (in which case it makes a nice change for it to be cancelled at all, at least with anything other than a biro!).

Don't think that affects the rate question though.

Can you post a scan of the piece in question? I probably can't get anything written up in time for the next Newsletter, but it's worth asking the question in the one after that to see if anyone knows how the Horizon machines are programmed (using this as illiustration).

thanks but not really sure how they process Horizons. Must go to a post office next time I am in England and have a look! Was there actually a NVI airmail postcard stamp? The ones I have (booklets) have denominated stamps. There are certainly the following extra rates euro up to 20g / 60g / 100g wo...

You mention the "table" I was asking about. Is it on the site anywhere (NVI absolute values since launch). By "table" I was thinking of the rates tables -- i.e. a 1st class NVI was worth whatever they say the rate was at the time, so a list of NVI values would be basically a tru...

Regarding the above: I've just realised that 74p was the Recorded Delivery fee at the time. So could that be the explanation?

Hi Jim - would that not just be the same as the current rate shown on the NVI stamp? So in the case of your piece, the table shows a normal 1st class stamp would have been worth 41p on that date. That makes £1.15 with the Horizon label though which wasn't a large letter rate at the time -- I guess t...

To clarify: we're planning to introduce a sales forum area, just as soon as we can find a volunteer willing to take on the role of online equivalent of "packet secretary".

Belatedly noticed this ... the rates in the GBPS tables are the complete sets of inland rates. Any higher rate on a parcel post label must be for an overseas parcel.

Unfortunately, there aren't any comprehensive tables of the overseas parcel rates that I know of -- something to look at in the BPMA!

And thanks from John Gledhill: Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! Please convey our hearty thanks to Ron “earsathome”, who is Ron in Queensland (I googled his website…) Very many thanks indeed. It might be worthwhile somebody pointing out to SG how that comment in the ...

Thanks, Ron!

A question from Dr John Gledhill of the GB Overprints Society -- can anyone help? Can you point this puzzle please to some member of GBPS who knows about the GB KG6 “Victory” issue. There is an ambiguous note in the SG specialised catalogue that cylinder 4 of the Victory issue is known with a vertic...

Hi MJT -- couple of suggestions: 1. Could you post a few scans to give people an idea of what to look for? 2. The Cinderella Stamp Club (http://www.cinderellastampclub.org.uk) might well be interested in this -- indeed, may have members who also study these items. We have a joint meeting with them o...

A response from our QEII correspondent and booklet expert Ian Harvey: "The question relates to the first window book issues and, specifically, the first second class book of four 13p stamps with a capital E (not small e) on the back cover. Also, that book with four 13p stamps has F on the back ...

While hoping that your search for the notes will meet with success - I am wondering if it will be possible to publish the photographs here on the Board? They should be of great interest to those of us who have some focus on the KGVI high values. They'd probably be too big when scanned full size (or...

Mike -- simple reply to check if you're receiving emails.

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The GBPS website has a postal rates section: http://www.gbps.org.uk/information/rates The aim is to provide as much information about GB postal rates as possible as a ready reference. Obviously this is an ongoing project -- currently the listings are comprehensive for inland rates, for overseas UPU ...

Andy -- can't help with the underprint, I'm afraid (it does look very curious), but your post reminded me to add your Underprints & Overprints site to the links section.

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