hi, while sorting through some covers I realised that Michael Furfie's excellent booklet on 20th century rates does not cover F.P.O. Is there a concise listing of these anywhere? Prompted also by Chris Harmann's great display read about in the GB Newsletter - I am still drooling regarding the Centen...

unfortunately I missed the meeting in connection with Stampex as I had booked my return flight to Germany on Friday and had not spoke to Burkhard Beer before. As we are planning a visit for seberal days with members of the GB and CW PS Switzerland and maybe even combined with the German FGGB I was w...

I do have the little booklet by W.Ward " A book about British books of stamps and rolls" published in 1925 I could mail to you if interested. Please

Robin we all look back and wonder why more people were not more foresighted "in the old days" and did not get later rare items when they were readily available. With hindsight it is always easier to see these! Gustamps are always advertising modern raritiesone should pick up but at the end...

Alexios : Thanks your response that was my first thought too but the "sample" rate would have probably taken too long. Could have been heavy papers of course too.

just read the article about the discussion board in the newsletter and thought I would share this item with you I picked up yesterday at IBRA. 3/- being 2/11d for the 14th weight step so 7 ounces plus late fee. Quite unusual not being registered and not sent as commercial pot / sample etc. I presume...

Fridy there is not much happening though! Saturday is the main day with the auction, the presentation to Mike and plenty to discuss, swap etc. We will be driving down from Berlin on Friday and back on Sunday. We will look forward to seeing as many friends as possible and maybe find new members for t...

On the other hand that shade is reasonably common on Lenate overprints so they make a useful reference should anyone come accross one used in England without the overprint!

Can anyone help me her please? Why are interpanneau pairs not given catalogue status and values whereas EII gutter pairs with and without traffic lights are? I managed to acquire my first Geo V cover used with an interpanneau pair last week and apart from that only have an Edward VII pair. They neve...

one of those eternal questions! Does anyone have any information about official acceptance of bisects? A friend has a cover to Germany with a bisect of the 1d lilac all looking perfectly ok. In Part Three of the Postage Stamps of Great Britain there is mention of a 2 1/2d rate to New York cover usin...

thanks for that Mike, much appreciated. Somehow I did not receive a mail saying there was an answer and only found out when Dieter told me he had already picked up the file. Thanks from him too.
James

Hi wonder whether anyone can help with a copy of P.C. Worsfold's article in GB Journal Volume 32, No. 2, May/June 1994.

A friend of mine is researching identification systems for booklet stamps

Thanks for any help

James

http://www.gbps.org.uk/boards/images/transferred/563_1.jpg hallo everyone, we wre recently shown this stamp a group member had got in a collection. Everyone first thought it must just be washed out or otherwise processed. However even under a microscope there was no sign of tampering. I have not se...

Thanks for the input. Seems to be a field not really looked into. On reading the Deegam handbook with the T and C differentiations we realised that there should be potential to identify single stamps with inverted watermarks as being from sheets (all 4 perforations torn rather than cut). SG talks of...

hallo everyone, at a group meeting yesterday (Great Britain and Commonwealth Philatelic Society Switzerland) a friend was talking about some research he has been doing into identification of individual stamps from booklet panes. His thoughts are that due to the method of separation by guillotine rat...

Hi Theo
are you sure that registration was included in the insurance fee? How about advice of delivery at 21/2d extra as well as 2d. registration?
regards
James

there were articles in GSM 05/94 and 02/95 which were mailed to me by GSM. I was most impressed by the service! My friend has now been satisfied completely
James

thanks Mike I will look further!
James

thanks for this Stanley. I had the same problem first time I tried to respond to a thread but as you see it works!

kind regards

James

dear friends I was talking to a new friend from the FGGB at the weekend when we had our AGM of the GB and CW PS. This topic came up and I remebered reading recently about it, the why and wherefore etc. Unfortunately I could not find the article at home and was hoping someone could give me some enlig...

hallo any updates available on earliest and latest usage dates? Cohen says 04.10.1879 earliest (Leeds) and 25.11.1937 latest (Cardiff). A friend has just written an article about the squared circles which was published recently and has asked us to try and find out any updates. thanks for any help es...

I suggest Allan Oliver and Stuart Tanne UK inland and overseas letter rates available as download from Allan's website. The big question is what you are most into! Sounds like pstage rates. I am trying to get together a collection of single frankings of all pre-decimal GB stamps used correctly. Quit...

Greatly enjoyed Bryan Kearsley's article in the last GB Journal and have sorted out my BW into the 3 series. Hardly any series 1 and about equal numbers of 2 and 3. Ist that a typical rarity qauge?

thanks

James