Machin 1st & 2nd class chart
Nov 23, 2020 1:51:49 GMT
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Post by Ryan on Nov 23, 2020 1:51:49 GMT
I've said earlier that I'm finally getting to the point where it's time to stop my incessant soaking & sorting and finally start cataloguing the stamps in my worldwide accumulation. Well, that's almost true. I've decided to start with Iceland and I know that in my "soak it right now" pile there are a large number of Icelandic stamps waiting their turn, resulting from sorting some bulk purchases. So, another round of sorting is underway as I reorganize things to prepare for my Iceland project (another 200 grams or roughly 2500-3000 Icelandic stamps have been moved into the "I mean it, soak these right now, I said RIGHT AWAY RIGHT NOW" pile). While I'm at it, I'm also preparing for the next countries I want to follow Iceland (up next is Liechtenstein, then Greenland & the Faroe Islands, then maybe Berlin, then the Baltics, etc etc etc). While I'm in the process of doing this, I've finally decided to do something logical to help me sort the masses of British Machin stamps I have.
I often come across Machin denominations which cause to me to look up whether or not this is a stamp I want to put aside for later soaking (due to the likelihood that I already have a lot of them already fit for cataloguing) or a stamp I should move up in the soaking process because it might be something less common. Many Machins cause me no problem and I know right away which pile is right for it, but some denominations continue to baffle me regardless of how many times I have to look it up (like those 11-1/2p issues - which one of those is the uncommon one, I can never keep it straight in my muddled mind).
So, I've created a chart using the neat little graphic buttons from Robin Harris' Adminware site and its pages for pre-decimal and decimal Machin issues. I then looked at the chart for postal rates prepared by Stephen Fletcher for the Adminware site and figured out which stamps were in service at the time of the various rate increases for domestic 1st and 2nd class standard letter rates. The result is the chart shown below. Hopefully it will be of some use to somebody other than me when trying to determine whether an individual stamp was one of the ones used on a bazillion common letters and which one was a more unusual rate (like the 11-1/2p rust brown stamp from 1979 which was issued for the 20 gram seapost worldwide letter rate, as opposed to the 11-1/2p mushroom stamp from 1981 which was issued for the 2nd class domestic letter rate - of course I'll remember that for the rest of my life now).
Ryan
I often come across Machin denominations which cause to me to look up whether or not this is a stamp I want to put aside for later soaking (due to the likelihood that I already have a lot of them already fit for cataloguing) or a stamp I should move up in the soaking process because it might be something less common. Many Machins cause me no problem and I know right away which pile is right for it, but some denominations continue to baffle me regardless of how many times I have to look it up (like those 11-1/2p issues - which one of those is the uncommon one, I can never keep it straight in my muddled mind).
So, I've created a chart using the neat little graphic buttons from Robin Harris' Adminware site and its pages for pre-decimal and decimal Machin issues. I then looked at the chart for postal rates prepared by Stephen Fletcher for the Adminware site and figured out which stamps were in service at the time of the various rate increases for domestic 1st and 2nd class standard letter rates. The result is the chart shown below. Hopefully it will be of some use to somebody other than me when trying to determine whether an individual stamp was one of the ones used on a bazillion common letters and which one was a more unusual rate (like the 11-1/2p rust brown stamp from 1979 which was issued for the 20 gram seapost worldwide letter rate, as opposed to the 11-1/2p mushroom stamp from 1981 which was issued for the 2nd class domestic letter rate - of course I'll remember that for the rest of my life now).
Ryan
