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- Sun Mar 08, 2020 6:47 pm
- Forum: GBPS Notices
- Topic: GBPS London 2020 Dinner
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18494
GBPS London 2020 Dinner
UPDATE 18TH MARCH 2020 Due to the Coronavirus situation, both London 2020 and this dinner will unfortunately not take place. For those who have already paid for the dinner, it is hoped that it will be possible to hold it at a later date (in conjunction with the next Stampex to go ahead). ----------...
- Thu Jan 30, 2020 9:12 pm
- Forum: Postal Markings
- Topic: manuscript prepayment marks and 1853
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8162
Re: manuscript prepayment marks and 1853
This topic came up on Stampboards a few years back -- to my surprise it turned out to be a more complicated situation than I'd realised:
https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=40785
https://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=40785
- Thu Jan 30, 2020 8:18 pm
- Forum: Postal Markings
- Topic: red and black chargemarks
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7774
Re: red and black chargemarks
Hi Peter -- I moved this topic from "Postal Stationery" to "Postal Markings", slip of the mouse presumably. :) As for the question, I suspect the answer is an unsatisfactory "it sort of grew up over time". David Robinson in "For the Port & Carriage of Letters&q...
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:59 pm
- Forum: GBPS Notices
- Topic: North-East Regional Group Meeting at Billingham, 25th April 2020
- Replies: 0
- Views: 15632
North-East Regional Group Meeting at Billingham, 25th April 2020
UPDATE 17TH MARCH 2020 Due to the Coronavirus situation, this meeting has unfortunately had to be cancelled. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For details of the programme of this meeting and a booking form see the PDF attachments to this po...
- Sat Nov 16, 2019 9:26 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: PJGB
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9754
Re: PJGB
Russell -- if that's the one I'm thinking of, wasn't it a Robson Lowe in-house production? If so we'd need permission to digitise it, and I haven't a clue who would own the copyright now.
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:10 pm
- Forum: GBPS Notices
- Topic: Great Britain Collectors Club - Merger with GBPS
- Replies: 0
- Views: 16534
Great Britain Collectors Club - Merger with GBPS
Firstly, we are very sorry to hear that our sister society in the US has had to close its philatelic doors due to "lack of new hands to the pump". Having been made aware of these administrative problems earlier in the year, the Council of the GBPS has been anxious - as have been the office...
- Fri Oct 04, 2019 6:23 pm
- Forum: GBPS Notices
- Topic: North-East Regional Group Meeting at Derby, 19th October 2019
- Replies: 0
- Views: 28313
North-East Regional Group Meeting at Derby, 19th October 2019
GBPS NORTH EAST REGIONAL GROUP: DISPLAY by GT!! There will be an open meeting for collectors of GB philately and postal history, at the Cavendish Auction Rooms, 153 London Road, Derby, DE1 2SY on Sat 19 October 2019. The venue is no more than 5 minutes walk from Derby railway station, but also has ...
- Fri Sep 20, 2019 7:06 pm
- Forum: GBPS Notices
- Topic: Change of Plan for 12th October Meeting
- Replies: 0
- Views: 26062
Change of Plan for 12th October Meeting
Unfortunately, due to unavoidable circumstances Richard Farman will not be able to present his display of "Napoleonic Prisoners of War" at the meeting on 12th October at the new RPSL premises at 15 Abchurch Lane. The display will be rescheduled for a later date. Instead, the morning sessio...
- Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:53 am
- Forum: General Notices
- Topic: Waterlow and Sons History Lecture - 3rd September 2019
- Replies: 0
- Views: 43381
Waterlow and Sons History Lecture - 3rd September 2019
Following the successful lectures at Guildhall Library in 2017, an annual lecture following their format was created. The History lectures will focus on the lives and careers of members of the Stationers' Company. Waterlows was founded in 1810 by James Waterlow, initially producing lithographic cop...
- Sun Jun 02, 2019 12:26 pm
- Forum: GBPS Notices
- Topic: AGM Meeting at Dorchester Hotel - Buffet Lunch Provided
- Replies: 0
- Views: 35804
AGM Meeting at Dorchester Hotel - Buffet Lunch Provided
Our AGM at the Dorchester Hotel on 22nd June 2019 is coming with lunch in the form of a buffet provided free of charge courtesy of the RPSL (menu below). If you are planning on coming to the meeting and want to partake of the buffet, it would be a great help if you could let Andy Donaldson know in a...
- Fri Mar 01, 2019 6:31 pm
- Forum: General Notices
- Topic: FgGB Annual Philatelic Weekend in Wesel (Germany), 4-6 October 2019
- Replies: 0
- Views: 39721
FgGB Annual Philatelic Weekend in Wesel (Germany), 4-6 October 2019
wesel.jpg Every year since 2009 philatelists and postal historians from all over Europe (in fact from all over the world since 2015) have met in early October for a weekend in different places in Germany. This year we meet in Wesel which is situated about 60 kilometers from Düsseldorf very near to ...
- Tue Feb 19, 2019 8:54 pm
- Forum: Queen Victoria
- Topic: Cresswell
- Replies: 1
- Views: 12428
Re: Cresswell
Belated answer (sorry): as I understand it, it was a "machine" that was fitted with unusually small datestamps, either on their own, or more usually part of a duplex. With "machine" being a bit of a grand term for what was basically a hand-operated gadget that automatically inked...
- Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:26 pm
- Forum: GBPS Notices
- Topic: Change of Venue for AGM Meeting 22nd June 2019
- Replies: 0
- Views: 34882
Change of Venue for AGM Meeting 22nd June 2019
Advance Notice - 22 June 2019 AGM Meeting at the Dorchester Hotel As most of you will be well aware the Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) is moving premises next year and work is going full steam ahead to get the new building ready for occupation during the middle part of 2019. Indeed, if all ...
- Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:25 pm
- Forum: General Notices
- Topic: GB Collectors Group North East Meeting, 16th March 2019
- Replies: 0
- Views: 33334
GB Collectors Group North East Meeting, 16th March 2019
GB COLLECTORS GROUP, NORTH EAST There will be an open meeting for collectors of GB philately and postal history, at the Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne, Neville Street, NE1 5DH on Saturday 16 March 2019, organised by Peter Chadwick. There is a £20 charge to cover room hire, food and drink....
- Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:18 pm
- Forum: GBPS Notices
- Topic: GBPS Site Updates Listing
- Replies: 0
- Views: 31685
GBPS Site Updates Listing
A recently added page aims to list changes made to the site, together with the dates they were made, so that you can see if anything has been added since the last time you looked. It generally does not include background coding changes, or tweaks such as the correction of minor typos or adding a new...
- Fri Aug 10, 2018 6:14 pm
- Forum: Queen Victoria
- Topic: scan1822 ON HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE WITH UNKNOWN LETTERS "L.T.R"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 14055
Re: scan1822 ON HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE WITH UNKNOWN LETTERS "L.T.R"
The "L.T.R." on OHMS items usually stands for "Land Tax Registry". The franking signature is Francis Freeling, the Post Office Secretary -- he seems to have ended up having to sign a lot of OHMS letters that had nothing in particular to do with the Post Office, but I'm not sure w...
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 10:59 pm
- Forum: Stamps - Queen Victoria
- Topic: SOLD Penny Red SG 29 block of 4
- Replies: 4
- Views: 16956
Re: Penny Red SG 29 block of 4
Done. It should hopefully work with any browser (although different browsers may use different terms for things, unfortunately).
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 7:40 pm
- Forum: Stamps - Queen Victoria
- Topic: SOLD Penny Red SG 29 block of 4
- Replies: 4
- Views: 16956
Re: Penny Red SG 29 block of 4
Hi lkfman -- "Postal Markings" isn't the obvious forum for this. I can move it to the sales forum if you like?
- Fri Dec 23, 2016 10:59 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: Post Office Guide
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20492
Re: Post Office Guide
Just to note that there are now quite a number of PO Guides available for download on the GBPS site (including the 1867 one, as it happens):
http://www.gbps.org.uk/downloads/postal-directories.php
http://www.gbps.org.uk/downloads/postal-directories.php
- Fri Dec 23, 2016 10:53 pm
- Forum: Wants
- Topic: 1971 Postal Strike
- Replies: 1
- Views: 12355
Re: 1971 Postal Strike
The main one is the set of 13 volumes produced over a period of time by Clive Smith (5 volumes in the 1980s, a very long gap, then the rest). Unfortunately they're out of print now and hard to get second hand, especially the later volumes. I think there's a version on CD -- or there was at least tal...
- Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:13 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Postal History
- Topic: "Overland Mail" labels of the 1920s
- Replies: 0
- Views: 23492
"Overland Mail" labels of the 1920s
A question asked on behalf of Rainer Fuchs: I am looking for some information on a GB Overland Mail label issued by British Post in 1926/28. The label in question is the red Label of which i have a complete sheet, see scan attached and has the number P.696 in bottom left corner, The transcript of Br...
- Thu May 26, 2016 10:25 pm
- Forum: GBPS Notices
- Topic: GBPS Trading Forums Rules and Instructions
- Replies: 0
- Views: 454432
GBPS Trading Forums Rules and Instructions
1. Introduction These are the current rules for the GBPS Trading Forums. The GBPS Council would prefer to act in a "hands off" manner and let members get on with it, so we've tried to make the rules as flexible as possible -- they can be summarised as "use common sense and play fair ...
- Mon May 16, 2016 5:17 pm
- Forum: Postal Markings
- Topic: "Wessex" cancels in Somerset ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11909
Re: "Wessex" cancels in Somerset ?
IIRC volume 3 of the Rockoff & Jackson books on the Maltese Cross have a listing of known examples of town datestamps being used as cancellers. (That includes a lot of non-Westcountry ones though. AFAIK the idea of an official "Wessex cancellation experiment" seems to be one of those p...
- Mon Jan 25, 2016 12:52 am
- Forum: Queen Elizabeth II
- Topic: NVI values
- Replies: 13
- Views: 27963
Re: NVI values
Addendum: I remembered that George King's list of Horizon label codes was in Newsletter 355 recently -- here it is: horizon-labels.jpg So "1L" refers just to Letter not Large Letter, which makes it very likely that the 74p label was in fact for the Recorded Delivery fee, added when the sen...
- Sun Jan 24, 2016 11:15 am
- Forum: Queen Elizabeth II
- Topic: NVI values
- Replies: 13
- Views: 27963
Re: NVI values
Ah, that puts a slightly different spin on it -- that's not a counter handstamp, it's a rubber datestamp used in the sorting office (in which case it makes a nice change for it to be cancelled at all, at least with anything other than a biro!).
Don't think that affects the rate question though.
Don't think that affects the rate question though.
- Sat Jan 23, 2016 9:17 pm
- Forum: Queen Elizabeth II
- Topic: NVI values
- Replies: 13
- Views: 27963
Re: NVI values
Can you post a scan of the piece in question? I probably can't get anything written up in time for the next Newsletter, but it's worth asking the question in the one after that to see if anyone knows how the Horizon machines are programmed (using this as illiustration).
- Sat Jan 23, 2016 12:05 pm
- Forum: Queen Elizabeth II
- Topic: NVI values
- Replies: 13
- Views: 27963
Re: NVI values
thanks but not really sure how they process Horizons. Must go to a post office next time I am in England and have a look! Was there actually a NVI airmail postcard stamp? The ones I have (booklets) have denominated stamps. There are certainly the following extra rates euro up to 20g / 60g / 100g wo...
- Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:46 pm
- Forum: Queen Elizabeth II
- Topic: NVI values
- Replies: 13
- Views: 27963
Re: NVI values
You mention the "table" I was asking about. Is it on the site anywhere (NVI absolute values since launch). By "table" I was thinking of the rates tables -- i.e. a 1st class NVI was worth whatever they say the rate was at the time, so a list of NVI values would be basically a tru...
- Fri Jan 22, 2016 9:14 pm
- Forum: Queen Elizabeth II
- Topic: NVI values
- Replies: 13
- Views: 27963
Re: NVI values
Regarding the above: I've just realised that 74p was the Recorded Delivery fee at the time. So could that be the explanation?
- Fri Jan 22, 2016 8:42 pm
- Forum: Queen Elizabeth II
- Topic: NVI values
- Replies: 13
- Views: 27963
Re: NVI values
Hi Jim - would that not just be the same as the current rate shown on the NVI stamp? So in the case of your piece, the table shows a normal 1st class stamp would have been worth 41p on that date. That makes £1.15 with the Horizon label though which wasn't a large letter rate at the time -- I guess t...
- Fri Jan 01, 2016 10:26 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Listing Removed.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 14575
Re: Listing Removed.
To clarify: we're planning to introduce a sales forum area, just as soon as we can find a volunteer willing to take on the role of online equivalent of "packet secretary".
- Sat Aug 22, 2015 4:01 pm
- Forum: Postal Rates
- Topic: parcel post
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10937
Re: parcel post
Belatedly noticed this ... the rates in the GBPS tables are the complete sets of inland rates. Any higher rate on a parcel post label must be for an overseas parcel.
Unfortunately, there aren't any comprehensive tables of the overseas parcel rates that I know of -- something to look at in the BPMA!
Unfortunately, there aren't any comprehensive tables of the overseas parcel rates that I know of -- something to look at in the BPMA!
- Wed Oct 22, 2014 5:06 pm
- Forum: King George VI
- Topic: Info wanted on "vertical line in margin" on 1946 Victory issue
- Replies: 4
- Views: 16629
Re: Info wanted on "vertical line in margin" on 1946 Victory issue
And thanks from John Gledhill: Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! Please convey our hearty thanks to Ron “earsathome”, who is Ron in Queensland (I googled his website…) Very many thanks indeed. It might be worthwhile somebody pointing out to SG how that comment in the ...
- Wed Oct 22, 2014 12:32 am
- Forum: King George VI
- Topic: Info wanted on "vertical line in margin" on 1946 Victory issue
- Replies: 4
- Views: 16629
- Mon Oct 20, 2014 10:49 pm
- Forum: King George VI
- Topic: Info wanted on "vertical line in margin" on 1946 Victory issue
- Replies: 4
- Views: 16629
Info wanted on "vertical line in margin" on 1946 Victory issue
A question from Dr John Gledhill of the GB Overprints Society -- can anyone help? Can you point this puzzle please to some member of GBPS who knows about the GB KG6 “Victory” issue. There is an ambiguous note in the SG specialised catalogue that cylinder 4 of the Victory issue is known with a vertic...
- Tue Dec 31, 2013 11:20 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: The Lord Roberts Memorial Fund Stamps
- Replies: 4
- Views: 18703
Re: The Lord Roberts Memorial Fund Stamps
Hi MJT -- couple of suggestions: 1. Could you post a few scans to give people an idea of what to look for? 2. The Cinderella Stamp Club (http://www.cinderellastampclub.org.uk) might well be interested in this -- indeed, may have members who also study these items. We have a joint meeting with them o...
- Sat Dec 14, 2013 6:47 pm
- Forum: Stamp Books
- Topic: Letters on the back of booklets at the bottom right
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11887
Re: Letters on the back of booklets at the bottom right
A response from our QEII correspondent and booklet expert Ian Harvey: "The question relates to the first window book issues and, specifically, the first second class book of four 13p stamps with a capital E (not small e) on the back cover. Also, that book with four 13p stamps has F on the back ...
- Sat Dec 14, 2013 1:03 am
- Forum: King George VI
- Topic: Gerry Bater Photographs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16480
Re: Gerry Bater Photographs
While hoping that your search for the notes will meet with success - I am wondering if it will be possible to publish the photographs here on the Board? They should be of great interest to those of us who have some focus on the KGVI high values. They'd probably be too big when scanned full size (or...
- Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:23 pm
- Forum: Downey Heads
- Topic: SG Spec. N7i – plate flaw or make-ready flaw?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17427
Re: SG Spec. N7i – plate flaw or make-ready flaw?
Mike -- simple reply to check if you're receiving emails.
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 2:15 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Testing Thread
- Replies: 5
- Views: 16435
Re: Testing Thread
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- Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:41 pm
- Forum: Postal Rates
- Topic: GBPS Postal Rates site
- Replies: 0
- Views: 13295
GBPS Postal Rates site
The GBPS website has a postal rates section: http://www.gbps.org.uk/information/rates The aim is to provide as much information about GB postal rates as possible as a ready reference. Obviously this is an ongoing project -- currently the listings are comprehensive for inland rates, for overseas UPU ...
- Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:04 pm
- Forum: Surface Printed
- Topic: Unusual Underprint
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10545
Re: Unusual Underprint
Andy -- can't help with the underprint, I'm afraid (it does look very curious), but your post reminded me to add your Underprints & Overprints site to the links section.
- Wed Sep 25, 2013 8:12 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Testing Thread
- Replies: 5
- Views: 16435
Re: Testing Thread
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- Wed Sep 25, 2013 8:11 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Testing Thread
- Replies: 5
- Views: 16435
Re: Testing Thread
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- Wed Sep 25, 2013 8:10 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Testing Thread
- Replies: 5
- Views: 16435
Testing Thread
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