Hi Owen, designers regularly visited exhibitions and signed around the margins of sheets for sale to collectors. I too have a corner block of the Festival issue signed by Dulac and a matching block signed by Abram Games. I also hold several other signed items from the George 6th era. I have not seen...

Hi Owen, a very interesting post and is making me look closely at the items I have !! There were in fact 3 retouch states to remove the 'HLP' from the jubilee lines - in the first the 'P' was removed - in the second the 'H' was removed and the third state all the letters were removed. The intermedia...

Hi Owen, well done on finding the 2 blocks on the dot cylinder. Cylinder 4 is a VERY scarce cylinder to locate anything on - even cylinder singles. Like you, I only have an example from the Dot cylinder and have never seen any No Dot examples for sale ( & I've been looking for years. ) !!!! I've...

Hi Tony, sorry for delay in replying as I had a problem with my printer & scanner which I have now fixed. Scan attached.

I recently bought a stockbook filled with mint & used King George 5th & 6th stamps including several hundred used Arms High Values - an issue I'm very interested in. Studying the 5/- red Arms stamps, I have found a used copy with a double 'T' guide that I have not seen before or found listed...

I've just read Robin Restall's very interesting & informative article on the 1937 Coronation stamp - Pre-release Cancellations in the GBPS Newsletter 348 and thought that I would share a couple of items from my collection. The first is an unaddressed cover with the 1937 Coronation stamp postmark...