Great Britain: Postmarks

That's a nice piece of information, not aware of that before,  I was assuming new dies after wear.

Since we are on Sutton Coldfield,
here is a new Slogan for you

Scouting.
Never come across "Brownsea Island" before in England.

England

The Last Sunday Postmark

New
Coleshill Road, Birmingham
4th November 1992

(The day before "Guy Fawkes Night"   The gunpowder plot)

Here is another puzzler which I think I figured out, but I would like your opinion if possible Allan.

Rod and I have puzzled over this one in the past.
Someone used this block of 8 half-penny stamps to pay part or all of the cost of a parcel.  You can see in the inset below that it is easy to read four letters at least, "ADIN".  Would this then be a multiple parcel cancel (or quite literally, obliteration) with a well-worn Reading parcel cancel?

Thanks in advance.

Tonight's item will show a slogan postmark

[Moderator edit - image links are broken and unretrievable]




The above two items were added today and both show the slogan for the Royal wedding
The letters E P = Elizabeth and Phillip. Wedding bells and bow

What this shows is that Plymouth was operating at least two machines ....

This slogan was used on every single impression machine - so I guess about 400 dies sent out.

The database at this time lists 13 that I have .... thus there is a great deal still to do on this one slogan alone ....

Still a lot of work to be done in this area of study ....

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Everything to this point is now listed ....

Enjoy ... Allan
 

Good evening,

Here is another Reading parcel cancel, which seems bigger and bolder than the Victorian cancels.

The perfin reads Sutton Reading.

Sutton Reading PERFIN

Royal Berkshire Seed Establishment

Pamphlet 1859
Printed at  Operative Jewish Converts Institution.
Palestine Place
Bethnal Green
London NE

rod222

I will try and explain this issue .... and what you have
First I have grabbed your page so that all can see what we are talking about



The victory slogan needs a little history and some information to present the details correctly ....
I hope the following will explain this issue, if not, questions welcomed and I will try and explain ...

The die blocks were sent out to postmasters in sealed packages in 1943 with instructions that they were only to be opened when instructed.

The instructions to open and use the dies came on the 8th May 1945 and the slogan remained in use from that date to the 9th June 1945
This was for Victory in Europe ....
In general most offices started using the die on the 10th May 1945 as the 8th and 9th were public holidays

After the end of the period of use, the dies were retained at the offices
They were brought back into use with new instructions from the 15th August for Victory over Japan
Again, the 15th and 16th were declared public holidays, thus most offices started using the dies from the 17th August 1945
The period of use for this second usage was 15th August to 15th September 1945

So your central item from London NW1 is the first day of general use - Victory in Europe
The other two dated items are first day of general use - Victory over Japan

Examples dated 8th or 9th May (first issue) or the 15th and 16th August (second issue) are rare and command a much higher price than any of the standard dates ....

The last item, 586 in triangle can also be dated ....

586 was used at Stapleford, Nottinghamshire
These dies were added to machines at offices that had been selected to do a census count of the mail ...
These census counts took place in September / October of the year, and as we know the periods of use for the dies we can assign this to September 1945 (The die was not in use in October ... )

The records state that this was used on nearly all single impression machines for the first issue and later, for the second use, that 400 dies were used

All are now listed in the database ....

Hope this all helps ... Allan

Everything to this point now added to the database listing

Once again with my thanks ... Allan

Please don't let me keep you past your bedtime Allan. Just adding a few things. No hurry.

Agreed ... records updated and new scan added

Now as noted ... time for some rest ...

Allan

tallanent

One for you to decipher?
All I can suggest, is a Canadian Serviceman, in England, sending an domestic letter, using a Canadian cover?

Not sure if I can locate the cover, possibly in a trunk of stuff.  FPO S63 ?   Any help?

thestampforum.boards.net/post/40185

Allan,

You're no longer missing an image for Enstone -- December 21, 1920.

As an aside:
Not enjoying Photobucket anymore,  possibly because I am at 83% full?
I have my library set at  SORT : NEWEST
I load a scan, and it will go anywhere, I have to then look for it amongst 360 other images. Ugh.

"Scan required"
Etchingham