Blocks, Strips & Multiples..

am sure I had the violets when I collected back a long way, and from memory there was a variety with missing flower - but there has been more than one set of flowers, so perhaps memory unreliable.              Here are a few - bit of an eclectic mix - the Xmas '66 King of the Orient was a whole sheet but they've parted down the centre ........  The Chile mini-sheet has been posted  previously - this one  is a  tad shop soiled but still  appealing .....   I don't normally collect Machin's but the pound was irresistible ....... and though SG call the Wilding brown-purple, it seemed to acquire the collector description of 'eleven penny plum' a long time ago.
P.S.   seems I got my words all wrong about the violets ...............  I do still have mint and used examples of the 1967 flowers issue - it was just that tragically I got rid of my collections eons back and the good went out with the bad, and what I have now are all re-collected material.   

lovely cancel !!

From a recent soaking activity, I have these two blocks: one from Italy, the other from India,

GB SG 2237
The top value in a set of 6 stamps issued in 2001 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize.This was also the first holographic stanp issued by GB.
The postmark is from the village of Botesdale,near Diss in Norfok.

Comoro Islands YT PA 18,issued in 1966.

One of  these images  may be of use  to Linda  who was asking about HP information  -  no matter if not, and am sure everyone has seen these before:

I understand that in France the The French Federation of Philatelic Associations  have odd days in the year which they used to call 'Journee du Timbre', but are now called 'Fete du Timbre' - something like 'stamp days' perhaps.    Anyway, the attached 'Fete du Timbre' block of ten is  postmarked 2007 and showing three different characters  from the books  -  since these are images of the actual  actors, then these too are from one of the films.                Not a clue as to how I came by these, don't normally collect C21 stamps. 

For comparison another picture showing film stills from  the U.K.  FDC issue of  2018.

The number for the "castles" is SG595 Current cat value is £10 sterling each for unmounted mint. If you find a used one with inverted watermark cat value is over £3000 sterling.

staying with the subject  of  postage dues ...........  

For whatever reason - am sure someone will enlighten me - GB didn't introduce separate stamps for unpaid or incorrect postage - 'postage dues' - until 1914, which surprised me,  I'd assumed that other countries had a 'dues' system much earlier - perhaps my assumptions wrong.            They interest me - quirky and  often overlooked by collectors.

Here is the yellow/orange 1/2d. - SG D35 from the 1951 - 52 dues, together with the emerald green 1/2d. - SG D1 for Southern Rhodesia  -  this latter little  number I believe is an overprint on what was  the GB postage  due D27 from 1937 - 38,  I think.

The  other picture shows the black  £1 - SG D88 from 1970 - 75, so assume this  is  a decimal effort - together with the 1d. purple - SG D36,  1951 - 52  issues, again. 

Most issues/values are fairly  easily acquired - aside from the obvious difficulties  such as wmk. varieties, there's only one  or two  that  irritate  -  the 1.1/2d chestnut  - the 2/6d. purple yellow  and 1/- bright blue. 

 

thanks Peadar Ruadh.    Also known as 'Postage Due Labels' or  'To Pay Labels' - and like the French, I think the States were much  ahead of us  too  -  so  what  did the postal authorities in  the U.K. do prior to  1914 I wonder, to  reclaim an under funded postal item?
I'm not heavily into 'fly specking', yet, but if it's Dorothy Wilding blocks  you like  here  are a few more.