The SG financial results certainly don't make for pleasant reading... I hope they survive and prevail in these challenging times!
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- Thu Sep 01, 2022 9:45 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: Report on the history of SG catalogues from the beginning by Hugh Jefferies
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9345
- Fri Aug 26, 2022 9:20 pm
- Forum: King Edward VII
- Topic: Rarity of 'Malformed Large 2' on King Edward 7th 2.5d (M16h)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16621
Re: Rarity of 'Malformed Large 2' on King Edward 7th 2.5d (M16h)
Thanks very much for this information Mike, I appreciate the time, it looks like its not that common, although saying that I do now have two examples of the variety from the last ~5 years of scouring E-bay every evening for items of interest. I have put in a new scan of both my examples side by side...
- Thu Aug 25, 2022 9:30 pm
- Forum: King Edward VII
- Topic: Rarity of 'Malformed Large 2' on King Edward 7th 2.5d (M16h)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16621
Re: Rarity of 'Malformed Large 2' on King Edward 7th 2.5d (M16h)
I had no response on this and as a result I e-mailed my enquiry to Alan Vaughan (the GBPS Ed VII specialist) who kindly responded very quickly stating: "I have never seen one of these varieties, nor the variety line under bottom frame-line. However I don't spend time on ebay looking; I am obvio...
- Wed Sep 15, 2021 11:03 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: Report on the history of SG catalogues from the beginning by Hugh Jefferies
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9345
Re: Report on the history of SG catalogues from the beginning by Hugh Jefferies
Thank you WM - always good to have more resources. I have recently been distracted with trying to learn how to plate Penny Blacks (its a slippery slope!) but having another source of information is always useful.
Kind regards,
H
Kind regards,
H
- Wed Jul 14, 2021 9:38 pm
- Forum: Line-Engraved
- Topic: Ebay and plating of Penny blacks/reds
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11750
Re: Ebay and plating of Penny blacks/reds
Good evening, Firstly I am not a collector of Penny blacks, but I have a friend who is and whilst looking into something else came across a resource that might be useful to others if they do not already know of it. It is a specific page of the 'Stamps of the World' Wiki site which is organised by le...
- Sun Jul 04, 2021 11:12 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: Report on the history of SG catalogues from the beginning by Hugh Jefferies
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9345
Re: Report on the history of SG catalogues from the beginning by Hugh Jefferies
Some more interesting viewing WM thank you - I had come across the Exploring Stamps You tube channel previously and it was worth a watch. I am somewhat new to the world of philately, and as such my view on these recent events is largely uninformed and irrelevant to those of more significant experien...
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 9:42 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: Report on the history of SG catalogues from the beginning by Hugh Jefferies
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9345
Re: Report on the history of SG catalogues from the beginning by Hugh Jefferies
Thanks for the heads up on this... it was an enjoyable watch - I note that there are a number of other videos of interest on the Stanley Gibbons You Tube channel too.
Kind Regards,
H
Kind Regards,
H
- Sat Jun 26, 2021 10:17 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: BBC Four Timeshift - Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5523
BBC Four Timeshift - Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues
Hello all - in case you are interested a BBC documentary from 2016 was recently put out again and as such is now available to watch on the BBC iplayer. Its fairly top level and lasts for 1 hour going from the penny black to modern day philately and might be an interesting watch for you if you have a...
- Wed May 26, 2021 11:13 pm
- Forum: King Edward VII
- Topic: Rarity of 'Malformed Large 2' on King Edward 7th 2.5d (M16h)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16621
Rarity of 'Malformed Large 2' on King Edward 7th 2.5d (M16h)
Hello learned philatelists... I did a search of the site prior to this enquiry and found no information hence asking my question. I am curious as to how rare the M16h variety (Malformed Large 2) is on the De La Rue, blue, 2 1/2d Edward 7th issue? I was fortunate to stumble across one recently on E-b...
- Mon Apr 19, 2021 8:47 pm
- Forum: Queen Victoria
- Topic: lilac overprints
- Replies: 5
- Views: 28597
Re: lilac overprints
Wow! several hundred overprints should keep you pretty busy - good luck looking through them and yes it'd be great to hear if you find anything of interesting!
Kind Regards,
H
Kind Regards,
H
- Sat Apr 17, 2021 9:21 pm
- Forum: Queen Victoria
- Topic: lilac overprints
- Replies: 5
- Views: 28597
Re: lilac overprints
Hi Mike - in case I wasn't clear - I only have limited knowledge of the overprint ink itself (i.e. the words stating "IR Official") on the stamp and how to detect that ink being in blue-black ink and in that instance light transmission microscopy is the way to go. I do not know whether thi...
- Fri Apr 16, 2021 9:05 pm
- Forum: Queen Victoria
- Topic: lilac overprints
- Replies: 5
- Views: 28597
Re: lilac overprints
Hi Mike, Both the late Michael Astley, and the late Tony Wiseman have stated that light transmission microscopy (i.e. shining a light through the stamp) is the best way to identify the blue-black ink varieties on the 1d lilac IR Official overprint issue. The only limitation to this is if the stamp i...