Great Britain: Postmarks

If you go with the 1987 edition, then you could theoretically use all of the supplements, as they are not cumulative. The supplements are collected into the 2-volume second edition, so if you go with that one, you wouldn't need the supplements.

Aigburth, home of "Lister"  member of the "Red Dwarf" a fav TV program of mine.   (3rd from Left)
The guy on the Right hand side is "Rimmer", he's a Hologram.

Colchester

Fabulous Zipper.
Thanks a bunch for scanning those pages!
You have history in your hands.


Stanley Cohen   (Philatelist)   How a beautifully engraved stamp,  inspired a Life's work          (Blame it on the Canadian "Bluenose" )
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Great Britain Precancels.  Which catalog lists these?

Wow wow wow
That is some nice candy zipper

I in bed using the phone but will spend a few cups of coffee looking at them in the morning

Hopefully Allan (tallinet) will see them if he is feeling better.

What an extraordinary collection, Zipper.
Here, you are on the cutting edge of Philately,  you may need to join a specialists club to get the good oil.
There is a catalogue which lists general classifications, but the discipline is so broad, they can only touch the surface.

Example :  Your "Provincial Page"  has a Douglas Isle of man, that lists on cover between £400 - £1,100   and "cut squares around 1/3 of that.
Your "Newport  Isle of Wight"   just has a ?     suggesting these very rarely surface
All guessing on my part,  this is way outside my knowledge, but what you have is Super!

First off, I would suggest you protect these immediately, and put them under plastic mounts for protection.

Your Maltese Cross with "LS" at the top, are all from the "Lombard Street" Post office in London.
Other codes I'll have to read further

Here is an old copy of what may be a good start............

If you re-mount  them, keep them in order as on the pages, they are fairly correct,
I cannot find examples of his "house of commons" , I think they look like "CH" = Charing Cross  (Branch Office)

The book takes some understanding,
Use the "Contents" list, as the general list for your "Cut Squares"  use that hierarchy.

Example:  Your Branch offices Maltese Crosses, are under 1. The General Post  1661-1840   (Item 7 in my book on page 6)   price £2.50  in 1983
Your initialled circles  £10 each

I think you bought well,  a tidy investment.

I have only ten pages, and the pages themselves seem to go up to at least #18, so there are probably more floating around out there.

Move to Calgary!  ha ha

Winter's coming, the highest humidity reading I have had all year on my gauge indoors (on second floor) was 37%, in the depths of winter it gets so low indoors that the gauge borks and reads 4% (it seems to go haywire around 14% and never reads anything other than 4% once it gets too low).  No foxing here, I don't think the fungus responsible can survive at such low humidity levels.  I do store some of my stamps in a basement room (never against a wall that borders against the outdoors, though) but it is well insulated and has two heat registers in it, so it never gets too much cooler than the rest of the house.

Ryan

Oops! Forgot to mention, I also ordered British Postmarks: A Short History and Guide. Thanks again, Rod. What would I do without you?

zipper

Now I am doubly envious 

A major dream of mine is to own a full library of Billigs.   (>$1,000)   you will have great fun reading these tomes, they are fascinating.

I am currently in Stamp rehab,
I went $300 over budget in my purchases recently.  I have cancelled all my auction sites,
and go outside for deep breaths, when I get the urge to purchase.

Not sure what it says underneath LONDON but I thought this was a nice SON strike.