Great Britain Philatelic Society

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Hi, Paul - thanks for this update. For various reasons, I no longer collect stamps, but it was interesting to see.

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This is pure guesswork on my part, but I believe that upon the demise of KGV, some of the Photogravure issue were unofficially turned into 'mourning' stamps by the addition of a thin black border over the perforations. Is there any possibility that this has happened to this stamp, and the dates adde...

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Thanks, Winston - yes, everything else checks out - Die 1a, Crown watermark, but unfortunately (from my limited knowledge) no plate markings.

Cheers

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I recently obtained this via eBay : Downey Head N1 002.jpg The vendor gave no guarantee as to whether it was genuine, and since I only paid £6, I have no quibble. I just wondered whether any members felt that the balance of probability is that the hand written inscription is genuine and accurate, me...

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I've not used this particular model, but I have had good results with this :

http://www.michaelkay.co.uk/watermark-d ... tector.htm

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I am by no means an expert, but if, like me, you would like to build as complete a collection of all the QEII pre-decimal varieties as is possible, then I think it is worth obtaining these, if you can do so at prices you feel reasonable. As to distinguishing the paper colours, I have never seen this...

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When, in the dim and distant past, people were trusted to pay for goods or services on receipt of an invoice, I believe that is how the system worked, but without more information, it is difficult to prove in this instance. The receipted invoice would have been returned as proof of payment.

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Looks to me as if the account was sent in February, then the same document used as a receipt in March - anyone any other ideas ?

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Thanks very much, Phil. I've downloaded the PDFF, and bookmarked the site for future reference. Very kind of you.

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This sounds interesting - any chance of a scan of this, please ?

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If anyone has any of these thay would like to sell (at a fair price) please let me know. The Railway Companies in which I am most interested are : Midland and Great Northern Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway Freshwater, Yarmouth and Cowes Railway Isle of Wight Railway Isle of Wight Central Railway N...

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Any chance of a scan please, so we know what we are looking for in better detail than in SG ?

Many thanks

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Thanks for that, Larry - yet another iota of ignorance removed from the vast pool I currently wallow in !

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Wikipedia entry : The strike was Britain's first national postal strike and began after postal workers demanded a pay rise of 15-20% then walked out after Post Office managers made a lower offer. The strike began on 20 January 1971 and lasted for seven weeks, finally ending with an agreement on Thur...

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Thank you, Mozzer !

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I would be interested to know if anyone has seen an example of the attached with an April 1 cancellation, please.

Many thanks

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Mike, Your appreciation is much appreciated. There are many ways to store and display blocks without using a stockbook with glassine interleaves. You give no indication of the size of the blocks you collect, which might assist those trying to assist you, but I shall assume pending further informatio...

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Hi, Mike, Seems to be just you and me chatting these days ! I presume you mean that you have blocks in a stock book, and when you turn the pages either static electrickery or the speed with which you flip open the pages causes the block to move or slide out ? All I can think of is that you try openi...

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Yes, you read that right. On Gumtree in Norwich there is currently an ad for a GPO Record Player : GPO record player.JPG Has anyone any details about this, please ? Who would use it, and why ? Music while you work ? Pre-recorded announcements ? The notorious Sorting Office dances ? Muzak on the Trav...

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Hi, Mike, I would not dignify my dabbling on the fringes of philately with the appellation 'research', or even investigation - I was just curious. I take your point about the sheets for booklet panes being produced separately from 'counter sheets', but some varieties which (afaik) appear only on sta...

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Thanks, Phil,

That's straightened that out.

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Thanks for that, Mozzerb. Sorry to belabour the point, but does that mean that a 'Post Office' sheet of 80 stamps (according to Wright and Creake - thanks for the link, I had not noticed it before - the standard size for the Jubilee issue) of the 4 1/2 d value would be worth 30/- (i.e. £1/10/-) ? If...

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QV is not my major interest, but my eye was caught by this query and the response. I am not in any wise criticising or correcting the previous suggestion, but the pane shown is five stamps across by four deep (20 stamps), and it was stated that the full sheet was, as usual in pre-decimal stamps, 240...

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This may be apropos : There are so many errors creeping into the Specialised Catalogues these days, not only of previously established facts but also typos and incorrect illustrations, that some time ago I wrote to SG suggesting they produce a catalogue of all the varieties and errors contained in t...

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Mike,

Thank you for this extremely detailed, well-researched and presented article - it will, I am sure, be of great use to me, and hopefully other members.

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For those of us (and surely I am not alone ?) whose interest lies purely in pre-decimal material, would it be possible to split the QEII listing into pre- and post-decimal, please ? Many thanks

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Just found this on Ebay - does anyone know whether it is genuinely from the period, or has it been 'reverse-engineered' from a genuine cancellation, and if so, could it have been used to create spurious FDC items ? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1924-EMPIRE-EXHIBITION-WEMBLEY-POSTAL-STYLE-CANCELLATION-ST...

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For those of you who have been awaiting eagerly the story behind this query, I can now provide the answer. It was, indeed, as a form of internal accounting, but in somewhat specialised circumstances - it was used when individual items, sent out in bulk mailing, had been refused by the recipient and ...

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This may not be entirely relevant, but in my accumulation of Postal History items (it cannot yet be dignified with the appellation 'collection' !) I have several mourning covers. One aspect I have noticed is that the width of the black perimeter varies, from just visible to about a centimetre. I hav...

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Hi, Bob, I cannot be of help myself, as I'm afraid I have no interest in Machins (maybe because I used to sell them !). However, Tony Hender, of Arun Stamps may be able to help - he has a vast knowledge of UK stamps, and a vast stock, some of which I purchase when I can ! My own major interests bein...

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'Mufti' is a little more than as described above : The word originates from the Arabic: Mufti meaning an Islamic scholar. It has been used by the British Army since 1816 and is thought to derive from the vaguely Eastern style dressing gowns and tasselled caps worn by off-duty officers in the early 1...

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Finally got an answer on this from a dealer :

Violet phosphor afterglow fades most rapidly, followed by blue, with green taking longest to fade. Hope this may be useful to someone as well as me.

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Being myself somewhat wary of registering with any commercial concern (I won't even let our local Council have my e-mail address or telephone number, as I insist on all communication between us being in writing), I found the ideal solution to purchasing items from Ebay - befriend someone who already...

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It's raining hard, I'm housebound with a trapped nerve, so I've been thinking !! There are many and varied Apps for the Smartphones, both Android and other OS, and I was wondering if anyone knows of one that will scan a stamp (GB only) and assign the correct shade to it ? If not, how about one of ou...

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Thanks for this suggestion - I have no idea of the origin of the block, as I obtained it 'as is', without gum, so I have no idea whether it was attached to an internal docket, a form of some sort, or a packet. It just seems a little strange to use a multiple of one penny stamps for internal accounti...

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Hi, I attach (hopefully !) a scan of a block of 18 Downey Head 1d N11, with the cancellation of Manchester Returned Letter Branch dated 4 Nov 1912. Since this pre-dates the issue of Postage Due labels by some 17 months, I am wondering if this was to reclaim postage on a returned packet. Perhaps some...

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Thanks, Robert,

This ties in quite nicely with the example referenced in the post about the Tangier overprint, on this site : http://www.earsathome.com/keviii/keviii/e8varie3.html.

Interesting.

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Hi, Robert,

Surprised you have had no replies so far to this. Can you attach the scans to a post here, so we can see them ? There is a space for 'Upload Attachment' when you post a topic.

HTH

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Recently, when cataloguing Wildings Boooklet Panes, I noticed that various 'flaws', noted in the Specialised catalogue vol 3 12th edition for panes, have no corresponding listing under the individual stamps, an example being on 1/2d pane SB7, where three flaws are noted which are not mentioned in th...

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Apologies if this has been raised before, but I can find no reference to it. My query concerns the 'afterglow' on Wildings definitives phosphor issues under the ultra-violet lamp. I seem to recall hearing (or reading) somewhere that the green and blue phosphors give the most prolonged afterglow, the...

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I suspect this has been around for a while. I have clear examples from other plates

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Yet another update - been using this almost daily since receiving it, and it is most helpful as an adjunct to the 'Specialised' - highly recommended

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Bit late on this one - sorry. Looks to me as if it could be a 'mounted' version of one of the notorious 'Maryland Forgeries' - anyone else any thoughts ?

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Further update - Graham Wilson has responded to my e-Mail, and we have exchanged addresses.

Thanks to Paul for Graham's e-mail address.

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Many thanks to all for the replies and info - greatly appreciated.

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In the January 2008 edition of Stamp magazine, there was a reference to a CD of scans of 'Advert' booklet panes from KGV onwards, from a Graham Wilson, with an e-mail address. Unfortunately, e-mails to that address bounce ! Does anyone know whether this is still available, please, and if so from who...

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Regarding semi-legible cancellations, i have found
that creating a 'negative' image often assists, as white on black can be clearer.

HTH

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Further to previous posts, I have been advised by experts that sorting used DH stamps by shade is almost impossible, due to action on the ink by water, chemicals, etc., so I gather I'm on a loser here. Thanks for the offers of help, anyway - I'll just have to accept defeat in this instance !

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David,
Thanks for your response - no stamp, I'm afraid, just saw some in catalogues and my curiosity was aroused, as a friend collects forgeries, and he's mentioned that perfs are often an indication.

Cheers

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I've seen several articles on these, but no-one has mentioned the perforations. They appear to be too even to have been done except by a commercial perforator - has anyone any thoughts, please ?

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