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earsathome
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Advertising interleaves in booklets

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Hello All,

We have a KGVI booklet SG BD12 2/- Edition 504 in which the 4th and 5th interleaf panes have an advertisement on the front but the back is blank.
The 4th interleaf has the 'Moorland' advert. on the front and is blank on the back and the 5th shows the Post Office Savings Bank advert on the front and blank back.
Is this usual or was it on just this edition number. Would it have been that the Post Office did not have enough advertisers?
If this is the case I would have thought they would insert their own such as Postage Rates or similar.

All help greatly appreciated.

Regards.
Ron and Eunice.
robinT
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The PO was a customer of the printer, who made up the booklets.
Advertising was a space to be sold. If there were insufficient ads to hand, the space was filled with something by the printer - suggested by them or in conjunction with the PO. Occasionally nothing.
Apparently this did not last long - as contracts for a continuous period were set up.
However there are so many booklets and so many differences, that it was one of the problems I did not have the money to overcome. Hence my capitulation
You are at the sharp end now - you must record what you find and consult with others to find out more (if you can find them!)
earsathome
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Robin,
Thanks for that response.
I obviously have the wrong view and had not looked at the P.O. being the customer and only having what they paid for in the adverts.

Unfortunately, you are correct of course, regarding the number and differences in booklets. Finance is a big consideration for the majority of collectors and I am finding the same with the KEVIII booklets.
Though I have a complete run of all edition numbers there are only a couple of duplicates
with which to make comparisons.
Fortunately the forum is a great help, making it so much easier than in the old days, when it comes to sharing information.

Some of my previous queries regarding the blotting paper adverts and the responses to that showed me just how much the GBPS forum members specialise and of course your own responses when you have detailed your researches into booklets, (much of which is way beyond me I must admit!).
There are a lot of frustrations but above all, for me at least, well made up for by the
enjoyment and sheer fun of collecting.

I am currently working on the stamp varieties in the KEVIII booklets and trying to find any 'constants'. All a nice use of time when the weather is a bit cold for being in the garden etc.
Thanks again.
Regards.
Ron.
robinT
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An interest, for 'oldies' is agood thing - keeps the brain active when all else fails!

However when it comes to collecting (anything) specialisation gets you too close to the subject.

I am advocating a wider view with specialisation added - where the wider view puts the specialisation into its proper context.

But another unfortunate sign of old age is entrenched views!!!!!

As modern stamps proliferate, not for the best of reasons, it becomes more difficult to afford to collect.

Many dealers seem to think that cto and fine used stamps are still worth the same as mint stamps - where you are paying for a service mainly. You cannot use used stamps - ergo - they must be worth considerably less; esp. when stuck on an envelope!

Cheers
Robin

PS. You are not much of a gardener to let the weather stop you.
I am just recovering from practising swallow diving on the rockery!!!
earsathome
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Yes, and Eunice and I are fortunate in having a lot of interests in common, so our brains are not static and we spark off each other. All good for the grey cells.

I agree that too much specialisation can get you too close but in that respect we do have wider views - we have several other philatelic interests as well as mint G.B. as can be seen on our website at

http://www.earsathome.com

We all have our own views (entrenched or otherwise) and I think this is the beauty of the GBPS forum, and others, in that it gives access to so many other people with similar interests. Most collectors that we meet do show interest in fields other than their own, something to do with 'collectors mentality' perhaps.

As for affordable collecting, I suppose that depends on an individuals interest. There are (maybe) some topics so obscure that very few stamps would illustrate them but for how long would that hold the interest?
One country collections? Very hard indeed. It was looking for a collection that I could 'complete' that led me to G.B. KEVIII - fool that I was at that time I had not done my homework. So came the nosedive into 'specialisation'!
I don't collect used stamps as such but have occasional covers and hold on to anything used that has relevance, but don't go out of my way to get them.

The weather stops us gardening because the frost has killed the grass - no
mowing to do - killed a lot of the shrubs and bushes, so no point in pruning
till the frost has finished and I keep my swallow diving for the pool.
Do you have a springboard in your garden or was your swallow dive more of a
belly flop?

Cheers
Ron.
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My collecting interest started when I thought Mauritius, being a small island would have few enough stamps to complete. Like you I did not do my homework - few stamps, but the prices (even way back) .....!

Affordable collection ?Depends on the depth of one's pocket. There are some topics relating to stamp collecting, that do not require stamps at all and can hold the interest for a considerable time.

You have to take a small country or island, consider how it came to have a postal system, how the stamps were designed and produced and in what quantities.
How many of those stamps are necessary to the postal system and what is sold just for profit.
consider then the politics behind those considerations.

Collect the necessary stamps and if you like to, expand where there is an interest. Seperate collections in some cases are beneficial.

I am doing this for Guernsey - but the system cam be extended to any small area. Regionals, country definitives etc. to keep the volume and the cost down - you can have an interesting collection even without costly variations and errors - you merely mention them in passing!

There you have it - combine real postal history with basic collection of necessary stamps and expand where you will (or can).

Robin

PS My swallow diving was a stupid old man throwing himself over a rockery. Our garden has quite a slope and once you are off balance you go - where....!
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