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Post by rex on Feb 20, 2021 13:43:16 GMT
Thanks anyway for replying. daniel.
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Post by daniel on Feb 28, 2021 23:57:31 GMT
This sheet was issued by the Orient Line, a British shipping company. Their origins date back to 1797 and they used various trading names before, in 1866 with the inauguration of a liner service to Australia, trading as The Orient Line of Packets. They became the Orient Steam Navigation Company in 1878. By the early 20th century they had a close association with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) and between them ran a weekly service to Australia. P&O would eventually take over the Orient Line. There is no date on this sheet but it must have been issued sometime in the 1930s (the only cover that I have seen with one of these stamps attached is dated 1938). The stamps depict the ports of call.
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Post by daniel on Mar 1, 2021 4:24:06 GMT
This item, at first glance, appears to be a sheet of Great Britain £1 PUC stamps from 1929. Look closer and they are actually, very well produced, Gift Vouchers. Source unknown but there are staple holes on the left margin so they must have come from a large book. The stamps are rouletted. Scan_20210301 by Daniel, on Flickr
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Post by thegubman on Apr 20, 2021 11:47:08 GMT
Just had another auction lot arrive today and amongst them were these two. I am not sure about the first one, just looks too clean and "new" Londonbus will know. The second one looks interesting and there are several of these on eBay at the moment. Regards Graham
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Post by Londonbus1 on Apr 20, 2021 14:53:28 GMT
Graham ( thegubman), your Imperf is a reprint of the 1923 Mercury labels printed in sheets of 100 by Rotaprint. One of a number of souvenirs for the Festival of Stamps at London's Royal Festival Hall in May, 1974. The Hyde Park Hotel label also exists in Green (Posted elsewhere at TSF). Beautifully engraved by Bradbury Wilkinson, possibly as early as 1911 (Source mis-placed) but more likely from the 1920's-30's. Londonbus1
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Post by daniel on Apr 28, 2021 21:13:24 GMT
The Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Two sheets for The RNLI produced by Posterstamps Ltd probably from the 1950s. There was an album for series 1 along with another sheet featuring the founder, Sir William Hillary (a single of this stamp is now shown below).
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Here is a single of the Sir William Hillary stamp.
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Post by cursus on May 3, 2021 7:40:51 GMT
Empire Exhibition in Scotland
Another Michael's gift
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Post by daniel on May 5, 2021 18:58:10 GMT
Whitbread was originally a brewery, founded in 1742, but sold its brewery business in 2001. They owned thousands of Pubs, Public Houses, but sold them in 2002. These stamps feature a few of them. Scan_20210505 (2) by Daniel, on Flickr
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Post by daniel on May 7, 2021 17:31:18 GMT
Allies Inside Germany Exhibition 1942
This was an exhibition held on Regent Street, London from 3rd to 26th July 1942. Described as 'Showing the underground struggle of the German Anti-Nazis against Hitler'. This stamp is one of a set of 12 designed by H R Rothholz, a German-born graphic artist who had immigrated to Britain in 1933. See here for the exhibition pamphlet from the Wellcome Collection and here to see the full sheet.
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Post by hdm1950 on May 8, 2021 23:24:30 GMT
I noticed some of these on this thread from back in 2014. They were found in Canada as well so they may have been made for the Canadian market. It was nice that this pair has some salvage edge. They also have the makers name on the back.
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Post by cursus on May 20, 2021 7:25:52 GMT
British Sailors Society
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Post by daniel on Jul 7, 2021 2:58:42 GMT
Two sheets from the Royal Academy of Arts, London: Art in the Age of Queen Victoria. Joan, cursus showed a couple of examples earlier in this thread. These art sheets are typically produced in France for art galleries and museums and usually to a very high standard. There are several different publishers, these are from STAMP!
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Post by daniel on Jul 7, 2021 3:12:07 GMT
Another sheet from STAMP! in France, this time depicting art from J M W Turner (the wrong order of his first names shown at the top of the sheet is due to the fact that he was known in his lifetime as William Turner. He had a house, recently restored, nearby in Twickenham.
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Post by daniel on Jul 7, 2021 5:33:48 GMT
After the Great Exhibition of 1851, held in Hyde Park, London closed, the glass structure, known as the Crystal Palace was moved to Sydenham Hill, SE London, enlarged and re-opened in 1854. Various exhibitions and events were held there until it burned down in 1936.
The Festival of Empire, May to October 1911, was the biggest exhibition held there and celebrated the coronation of George V. It spread across the grounds and included reconstructed Parliamentary buildings from Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand and South Africa. The Inter-Empire Championships (now the Commonwealth Games) was held there during the Festival.
Here are 3 Cinderellas to celebrate the event. The first 2 stamps were printed by Perkins Bacon. The 3rd stamp was used by exhibitors. Followed by a postcard showing the Crystal Palace.
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Post by wakeybluenose on Jul 7, 2021 8:12:13 GMT
Those Festival of Empire ones are gorgeous Daniel, and especially interesting to me as I live a 10 minute walk from the site of The Crystal Palace (which is still impressive without the actual palace!)
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Post by daniel on Jul 7, 2021 13:55:17 GMT
Those Festival of Empire ones are gorgeous Daniel, and especially interesting to me as I live a 10 minute walk from the site of The Crystal Palace (which is still impressive without the actual palace!) The Crystal Palace Museum is housed in the only surviving building on the site 'constructed by the Crystal Palace Company built around 1880 as a lecture room for the Crystal Palace Company’s School of Practical Engineering'. It is only open on Sundays. I visited it several times some years ago but it is still there.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jul 7, 2021 20:09:11 GMT
'STEP INTO YOUR PLACE'. Poster stamp taken from a 1915 Poster by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee showing a group of men carrying the tools of their trades and turning the corner as soldiers. I wonder how many came back ? Step into Your Place. © IWM (Art.IWM PST 0318) Londonbus1
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Post by Londonbus1 on Jul 8, 2021 8:17:34 GMT
Similar in intent to the previous Poster Stamp is this Wartime propaganda label urging the public to purchase Scrip Vouchers and help the cause. Difficult to see on the stamp but inscribed is "apply at your nearest Post Office", the place to go to give your Five Shillings !! From an original Poster (1915) issued by the Parliamentary War savings Committee and printed by David Allen & Sons of Harrow, London.
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Post by anglobob on Jul 8, 2021 13:03:55 GMT
A WW1 patriotic item from France,translates as England will be relentless...... A fitting stamp for the Euro 2020 Final this Sunday England v Italy
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Post by daniel on Jul 28, 2021 1:20:08 GMT
This small sheet commemorates the Post Office Tercentenary (although this word has been misspelt on the sheet), 31st July 1635 - 31st July 1935. 'Three hundred years ago King Charles I, who reviewd his troops here, at "Kingstanding" established The Post Office as a public service on July 31st'.
I can only find an oblique reference to The Post Office celebrating this event in the (British) National Postal Museum's Special Stamp History: Tercentenary of Establishment of the General Letter Office stamps issued in 1960, see here. On page 2, paragraph 4, it is stated that a letter was sent to Sir John Wilson, the Keeper of the Queen’s philatelic collection: 'The letter sought Sir John’s opinion on the validity of 1960 as the date of the tercentenary, pointing out that the Post Office had, in 1935, celebrated the tercentenary of the 1635 proclamation of Charles I, although no stamps had been issued'
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Post by tomiseksj on Aug 1, 2021 14:24:38 GMT
I previously mentioned having gotten an exceptional deal on a lot purchased from the APS Stamp Store that included five of the six All Hallows Rebuilding Fund stamps that Londonbus1 showed us on page 3 of this thread. A Google search revealed that Stanley Gibbons will sell you the set of 6 singles for £90. I imagine that I'll have to pay dearly to acquire the block of 4 needed to complete my set. Should any of you have an extra block of the carmine "Westward View" stamp, I'd be happy to take it off your hands.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Aug 1, 2021 17:25:09 GMT
THE SHAKESPEARE STAMP. Exists in at least 5 colours. But I believe the total series is 9 or 10, issued up to 1925-6. 1899 Blue 1900 Red 1901 Green 1902 Purple Also a Coronation issue in Orange and these 5 can be found most often affixed to a card, but they are not plentiful. These Fund-Raising Cinderellas were produced by the Holy Trinity Church in Shakespeare's home town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warickshire, England. The central figure is based upon a Memorial at the Church. The charge of One Shilling included postage to anywhere. Church workers would affix postage stamps alongside the Souvenir stamp for mailing. Words to this effect are inscribed upon the aforementioned card. A very attractive little series for such a worthy cause. William would have been proud !! Sadly, I only have the blue type as a 1964 Reprint, so if anyone spots other colours, originals or reprints, do let me know. Londonbus1 * 1964 celebrated the 400th Birth Anniversary of William Shakespeare. Edit: Other colours: Violet (1897), red-brown (1907), Black (1908), Brown (1926). Orange colour was for KGV Coronation (1911) I just won a few labels mentioned in the post above from Page 3. It was tough going. With stamp activity at a minimum this year thus far, this has been my most expensive purchase in this Covid-infected year to date ! Similar info accompanied the listing to what I found and stated in my previous post (quoted above). "UK Shakespeare Cinderellas c1900 MNH I researched these and found them to be from the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. They were used to carry letters from the church in Old Town to the main Post Office in Stratford (to raise funds for maintenance and repairs). The different colors (9 total) were issued over the period of use (believed to be from 1899 and into the 1910s). William Shakespeare is buried in the church and the design was copied from the statue above his resting place." Londonbus1
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Post by Londonbus1 on Aug 1, 2021 17:32:26 GMT
Steve ( tomiseksj)......I have never seen any multiples of the fund-raising set before, never ! The blocks are great. I'll keep a look out for the missing one. I took a look at the APS offers after I saw your post and there are a few items I would like. Will look again later, thanks for the link.
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Post by daniel on Aug 12, 2021 0:11:25 GMT
The King's Fund, previously known as The Prince of Wales's Hospital Fund was responsible for producing the Diamond Jubilee Cinderellas of 1897 and the subsequent 1898 follow-up set, seen here. In 1922 they again organised major fund raising for London Hospitals including issuing Cinderella stamps, costing 1d each, for 25 different London hospitals. These could be collected on cards issued by the King's Fund or for schools as the London Schools Hospital Fund. The cards only had spaces for 12 stamps. 3 million stamps were sold.
Here is the London Schools Hospital Fund 'Hospital Stamps Purchased 1922' card, it is in terrible condition but only cost a few pounds compared to the £80+ for which they can sell, if you can find one.
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Post by daniel on Aug 12, 2021 21:46:55 GMT
I did some more research for what appears to be Cormont Road School. There are three schools listed at that address and they turn out to be the same school in London SE5 (Kennington/Lambeth). From Wikipedia: 'The school was first established as St Gabriel's College in 1900. During the First World War, the building was requisitioned by the War Office to create the 1st London General Hospital, a facility for the Royal Army Medical Corps to treat medical casualties. After the war it became the Kennington Boys School and later became Charles Edward Brooke Girls' School, named after the "well-known Anglo-Catholic figure" and Vicar of St John the Divine, Kennington. After the school closed in 2012, part of the site was converted for residential use as St Gabriel's Manor.'
How poignant that at one time it was itself a hospital.
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Post by Londonbus1 on Sept 2, 2021 14:07:44 GMT
Similar info accompanied the listing to what I found and stated in an earlier post. "UK Shakespeare Cinderellas c1900 MNH I researched these and found them to be from the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. They were used to carry letters from the church in Old Town to the main Post Office in Stratford (to raise funds for maintenance and repairs). The different colors (9 total) were issued over the period of use (believed to be from 1899 and into the 1910s). William Shakespeare is buried in the church and the design was copied from the statue above his resting place." Londonbus1 My friend has just returned from New York and these Labels are now in my hand !! They are much better 'live' ! Now to search for the remaining colours. Real beauties.
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Post by hdm1950 on Oct 5, 2021 0:05:52 GMT
Still rooting through the odds and ends in this large collection. Stuck in the envelope of a FDC from a 1977 Guernsey commemorating the centenary of St. John Ambulance was this wonderful Cinderella for the Order of St. John. I did not find it posted before so hopefully this is not redundant.
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Post by daniel on Oct 5, 2021 0:36:31 GMT
Still rooting through the odds and ends in this large collection. Stuck in the envelope of a FDC from a 1977 Guernsey commemorating the centenary of St. John Ambulance was this wonderful Cinderella. I did not find it posted before so hopefully this is not redundant. Hugh, That looks like it's Canadian. Although St John Ambulance was founded in England, it is now an international organisation. Perhaps cindycan2 can confirm? An attractive stamp either way. Daniel
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Post by daniel on Oct 10, 2021 21:08:54 GMT
The All Hallows By-The-Tower Rebuilding Fund again, but this time showing the original folder. Some staining to the cover but a nice presentation.
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Post by daniel on Oct 17, 2021 2:17:18 GMT
These National War Savings Committee stamps are not Savings Stamps as such but were issued towards the end of World War I. They were given free to children who purchased a 6d savings stamp. There were multiple series to collect. Only the Medals series was in colour.
Series 1 V.C. Naval Medals
Series 2 V.C. Women's Work Aeroplanes
These are all from series 2
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