Doudar
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Post by Doudar on Nov 20, 2021 11:05:54 GMT
The final stamp to complete my set of QE2 Pre Decimal Commemorative stamps.   |
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Nov 20, 2021 22:33:08 GMT
Congratulations on completing , But have you both ordinary and phosphor issues.? A couple of the first Phosphor band issues were a bit more expensive as they were only available at a few post offices, not all offices got them.
I was just asked to sell a complete run of the ordinary issues without phosphor , MNH, last week for a neighbour who had them as part of her Dad’s collection.
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Doudar
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Post by Doudar on Nov 24, 2021 12:05:15 GMT
Congratulations on completing , But have you both ordinary and phosphor issues.? A couple of the first Phosphor band issues were a bit more expensive as they were only available at a few post offices, not all offices got them. I was just asked to sell a complete run of the ordinary issues without phosphor , MNH, last week for a neighbour who had them as part of her Dad’s collection. No, have just started on the phosphor issues. Just out of interest what did he get of the set? |
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Nov 24, 2021 12:33:16 GMT
Congratulations on completing , But have you both ordinary and phosphor issues.? A couple of the first Phosphor band issues were a bit more expensive as they were only available at a few post offices, not all offices got them. I was just asked to sell a complete run of the ordinary issues without phosphor , MNH, last week for a neighbour who had them as part of her Dad’s collection. No, have just started on the phosphor issues. Just out of interest what did he get of the set? AS many collectors will have a number of the predecimals already, unless just beginning on the collection, and only require some for completion , the price for a complete run depends on finding two bidders who need the series for completion. Without any Phosphor, but mint Never hinged, the buyer got a bargain at £26.51 and we were content with clearing part of an estate. None of the local collectors in my club were interested as they had these already. |
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drblade
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What I collect: GB Unmounted mint & Machin definitives Q.E.II Used commemoratives
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Post by drblade on Dec 20, 2021 14:59:26 GMT
I notice the last stamp you were entering into your album was the 1967 Chichester world voyage stamp. It reminded me of an old photograph, which I hope you don't mind me posting. I was a crew member on the ship in the background. We sailed past Sir Francis as he had just completed his world voyage. (off Plymouth U.K.)  |
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daveg28
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Post by daveg28 on Dec 20, 2021 15:49:42 GMT
I have a hard enough time getting GB stamps here in the states. So, I'm not bothering with the phosphor issues. Same with Canada. I'm happy to just to filled the spaces. It makes collecting the Machins a lot easier, too. I just go for colors and face values. If I do come across a phosphor stamps that's quite noticeably different, I will save it, however.
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Doudar
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Post by Doudar on Dec 30, 2021 14:08:30 GMT
I notice the last stamp you were entering into your album was the 1967 Chichester world voyage stamp. It reminded me of an old photograph, which I hope you don't mind me posting. I was a crew member on the ship in the background. We sailed past Sir Francis as he had just completed his world voyage. (See earlier post for image.) Great photo, I remember watching it on TV even though I was only 10 at the time. |
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brightonpete
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Post by brightonpete on Jan 15, 2022 3:01:28 GMT
I am finally tackling the Great Britain stamps in my collection. They are scattered all over, but have KGVI to the decimals all in one place. Here it is late night, I had to come back and look at some of them with my UV light. There are a number of varieties unseen by the naked eye. Stoneham says nothing about paper, but I have 3 varieties of the 4d Churchill, along with others. There is plain paper, a yellowish fluorescing paper and a paper similar to Canada's hi-brite - very bright white fluorescing. Stoneham mentions two printers, of which these two look different to me.
This first one I believe is the Timson printing...
... and this one looks like Thrissel
They both fluoresce the same, a medium grade if you ask me. Are the British catalogues ignoring paper types, or just Scott's & Stoneham. That's all I have for these stamps.
Note: if you open the images in a new tab/window, they will be larger, and if you open them on my computer, they will be huge! Scanned at 4,800 DPI just for the heck of it.
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jan 23, 2022 11:59:23 GMT
Just wanted to give this thread a bump, as I moved Peter's ( brightonpete) excellent post from the Whatcha thread to this one, where hopefully more contributions can be made in the area of QEII Pre-Decimal Commemoratives. Stay stampy, and carry on, all!  |
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drblade
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What I collect: GB Unmounted mint & Machin definitives Q.E.II Used commemoratives
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Post by drblade on Jan 23, 2022 12:55:58 GMT
I am finally tackling the Great Britain stamps in my collection. They are scattered all over, but have KGVI to the decimals all in one place. Here it is late night, I had to come back and look at some of them with my UV light. There are a number of varieties unseen by the naked eye. Stoneham says nothing about paper, but I have 3 varieties of the 4d Churchill, along with others. There is plain paper, a yellowish fluorescing paper and a paper similar to Canada's hi-brite - very bright white fluorescing. Stoneham mentions two printers, of which these two look different to me.
This first one I believe is the Timson printing...
... and this one looks like Thrissel
The both fluoresce the same, a medium grade if you ask me. Are the British catalogues ignoring paper types, or just Scott's & Stoneham. That's all I have for these stamps.
Note: if you open the images in a new tab/window, they will be larger, and if you open them on my computer, they will be huge! Scanned at 4,800 DPI just for the heck of it. Also look at the owl's head on the top stamp, I think it may be the "sailors hat flaw". Also a couple of minor left colour shifts of orange brown, on the bottom scanned stamp. My specialised catalogue of Pre-decimal Q.E.2 does not mention paper types & I'm pretty sure the Gibbons concise does not mention them either. |
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Post by daniel on Jan 23, 2022 23:58:30 GMT
I am finally tackling the Great Britain stamps in my collection. They are scattered all over, but have KGVI to the decimals all in one place. Here it is late night, I had to come back and look at some of them with my UV light. There are a number of varieties unseen by the naked eye. Stoneham says nothing about paper, but I have 3 varieties of the 4d Churchill, along with others. There is plain paper, a yellowish fluorescing paper and a paper similar to Canada's hi-brite - very bright white fluorescing. Stoneham mentions two printers, of which these two look different to me.
As far as the 4d Churchill stamp is concerned, it was printed by Harrisons on chalk-surfaced paper. However, there were 2 different machines used to print them: Rembrandt, phosphor and non-phosphor and Timson, non-phosphor (the 1s3d value was printed on yet another machine, Linotype & Machinery No.4). To clarify, for the Post Office Savings Bank stamps, these were also printed by Harrisons and they were also printed on chalk-surfaced paper. Harrisons used two printing machines, Timson and Thrissell. Daniel |
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Post by mudgie on Jan 24, 2022 11:42:06 GMT
The final stamp to complete my set of QE2 Pre Decimal Commemorative stamps.  And I think the first British stamp to depict a living person other than the monarch. |
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Jan 24, 2022 12:08:15 GMT
Possibly so mudgie , "commemorated" though, he is not recognisably "depicted" just a wee blob by the mast. The Stamp says "Gipsy Moth IV " Rather than Francis Chichester. The first portraits of a living person appears 2 years later With Prince Charles investiture 1969, Prince Philip in 1972 . The first Commoner would be Capt Mark Phillips for his wedding to Princes Anne in 1973 Kind of Keeping it still in the Family eh?   |
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Post by mudgie on Jan 24, 2022 12:26:39 GMT
Possibly so mudgie , "commemorated" though, he is not recognisably "depicted" just a wee blob by the mast. The Stamp says "Gipsy Moth IV " Rather than Francis Chichester. The first portraits of a living person appears 2 years later With Prince Charles investiture 1969, Prince Philip in 1972 . The first Commoner would be Capt Mark Phillips for his wedding to Princes Anne in 1973 Kind of Keeping it still in the Family eh? Are you seriously suggesting that that's anyone other than Sir Francis Chichester on the Gipsy Moth IV there ? If anyone was disagreeing with me I thought it would be with someone having identified the three lifeboatmen on the 1/6 RNLI stamp, the two Salvationists on the 3d Salvation Army stamp or, most likely, the two footballers photographed for the 4d World Cup stamps. |
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Jan 24, 2022 12:35:17 GMT
Ok, I take your point.  Of course the blob has to be Sir Francis. but still within the Post office/Royal Mail guidelines for designers at that time not a "recognisable portrait of a living person". I confess I don't know if the lifeboatmen or the Salvationist have ever been recognised as living portraits ....maybe they were already deceased  |
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